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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1907
Page
4
An advertisement extols the dangers of indecorous examinations while urging use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women’s health. It claims cures for “debilitating dramas” and “female weakness,” notes nonalcoholic, printed ingredients, and lists endorsements from medical professionals.
An advertisement by Dr Addison Jones of Creame promises cure for nervous debility sexual diseases and chronic conditions. It touts dramatic results in deafness cataracts rheumatism skin cancer piles rupture and many other illnesses with a free confidential offer and old case successes.
Meyer of Beacon Hill, postmaster general, urges a system of postal savings banks and a parcels post with government backing. He and President Roosevelt back the plan amid opposition from express companies and small-town merchants, while slot machines for stamps are proposed for public access.
A fragment cites George Bernard Shaw in the London New Age noting Milton's price for Paradise Lost and proposing a hypothetical high price for another work. The text shows garbled pricing suggests debate over value and attribution.
An essay reflects Keats’s view that marriage is a barrier to his art and solitude. The author, citing Walter Raleigh’s Poems of John Keats, contrasts epic imagination with domestic happiness and notes the poet’s preference for a thousand worlds over a wife and children. A quoted aside from Troubles of an Amateur adds a humorous bee-keeping anecdote from the Chicago Tribune.
The text recalls a small Westerland graveyard for nameless sea-bodies buried since 1855 with a 1888 stone reading The Home of the Homeless. It notes the obsolescence of long honeymoons as marriages become more practical and shorter, often a four to five day or weekend affair.
An advertisement roundup praises Buckten's Arnica Salve for skin troubles and Ko dol for stomach issues with guaranteed relief. Also featured are Electric Bitters for health restoration and Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup, all sold by local druggists including C M Olsen Eugene A Pfefferle and O M Olsen, with testimonials from Abrah am Brown and others.
Thousands suffer kidney and bladder troubles and should not neglect their kidneys. Delays are dangerous. DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills offer quick relief for all kidney and bladder issues. A weeks treatment sold by Eugene Pfefferle.
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