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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1908
Page
2
Robert Blackburn swears before a Ohio official that Blackburns Castor Oil Pills contain no Croton Oil and will pay $1000 to anyone who proves otherwise by chemical and physiological tests. He challenges doctors chemists or private individuals to demonstrate presence or absence of Croton Oil.
Notarized testimony by Robert Blackburn on June 8 1908 in Montgomery County Ohio. The note promotes pills as a harmless civilized pleasurable physic and a true remedy for constipation with a personal guarantee from I R B.
At Resley Lake near Moscow and Atalissa three young people drown when an overloaded 14 foot row boat with a two horsepower engine sinks after water floods the stern. Maude Garnes and Vesta Croxen die, Clyde Slater also perishes. Richard Watters survives after heroic resuscitation. Benjamin Parker and J E Parker help rescue. Coroner rules accidental drowning.
Miss Garnet Alverna McElroy three, daughter of Glen and Mrs. McElroy of Pleasant Prairie, died Sunday at 6:30 after ten days with acute peritonitis. Born July 10, 1905, she was taken to her grandparents' home at 509 Mulberry Avenue for the funeral arrangements. Exact service date not yet set.
John Silber, jailed in Newkirk Oklahoma, used a local newspaper want ad to seek release after being charged with blowing out a switch light. His ad attracted sympathy, legal help, and a pardon from Governor Haskell, freeing him and boosting his faith in advertising’s power.
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