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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1909
Page
4
A 19th century ad-like note describes mixing whiskey with syrup sarsaparilla and Torys compound to treat rheumatism. Directions call for tea spoonful doses before meals and at night. It also notes a social quip about a woman visiting church to learn neighbors' attendances.
A letter from Louisville Kentucky praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for preventing surgery by curing irregularities dizziness and nervous female troubles. Another Georgia resident credits it with avoiding operation and two decades of testimonials support its effectiveness for feminine illnesses.
The president transmits the country life commission report to Congress, urging cooperation, better rural schools, improved roads and communication, and stronger country life through a cooperative farming model, church involvement, and emphasis on personal character and the wife’s role.
Nantes municipal council votes a family bounty for city employees in good standing. Each marriage nets $20 at start and $19 monthly per child until age fourteen, halting if the father's salary exceeds $600 yearly. New York Tribune.
Sylvanus O Verrill of Milford Maine says a severe kidney injury left him paralyzed and in pain with urine disorders. After using Doe s Kidney Pills he regained strength, walked via crutches then fully recovered in months. one box helped, and he was cured. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY 50 cents a box.
Donald returns from a country visit full of memories and tells his mother of meeting a boy with the peculiar name Father William or William Father. She corrects him noting no such names in the Old Testament and explains William is a modern name. He then recalls Bildad as a possible biblical name.
The California Fig Syrup Co emphasizes open ingredient statements and purity for its Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It notes California figs supply flavor while medicinal principles come from beneficial plants and urges purchase only of the genuine product.
The periodical promotes Prof Munyon's Cold Cure at 25 cents a bottle with a money back guarantee. The page also features short jokes, ads for Castoria, Capudine, Wizard Oil, Brown's Troches, Woolford's Lotion and other consumer reminders, plus light humor about birthdays and public life in a collage of notices.
A Detroit mother recalls her six month old daughter breaking out with about sixty boils and a red scald like humor behind the ears that spread to the head each spring. She used Cuticura Soap and Ointment with Resolvent and reports the child has been well for two years. February 24 1908. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. sole props Boston.
An older home remedy ad asserts Hunt's Cure treats eczema tetter ringworm and other skin maladies with instant itch relief. A letter from R M Swann of Franklin LA praises its effectiveness and longevity. A separate satirical note mocks a local showman and threatens him with a rooseveltian dressing down if he visits the paper.
The passage extols Hall’s Catarrh Cure for deafness linked to catarrh and inflamed Eustachian tubes, offers a $100 guarantee, and promotes related remedies and various unrelated anecdotes and advertisements from the period.
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as proper brain and nerve nourishment, citing cereal elements like phosphate of potash retained in the product. A Wisconsin bride testifies it cured weekly nervousness and saved her job, praising its flavor and claiming it has no equal for nerve renewal.
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