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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1911
Page
6
In a February style puff the ad claims Calocide soothes feet as warm weather arrives. Soak feet in a basin of water with two tablespoons Calocide for fifteen minutes nightly to dissolve corns, reduce bunions, and eliminate sweaty, smelly feet. The ad asserts immediate relief and a twenty five cent cure, available from druggists.
This ad promotes a free book claiming tests for prepared roofing strength. It invites building owners or users of prepared roofing to obtain a copy from a dealer, highlighting five additional quality tests and urging attention to the booklet.
A London board of trade return cites G R Allwith data showing less than 30 percent of Americans hold gainful work, ranking the United States highest in idle wealth. Britain follows with 44 percent employed, while Hungary Germany Belgium Italy France and Austria show varying unemployment and agricultural engagement. The report notes Germany’s unemployment around 3 percent in 1908 and Germany’s many textile workers, plus broad insured protection.
A Pasadena druggist letter praises Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a safe, non narcotic expectorant suitable for children. It highlights its lack of nausea and no interference with digestion, urging readers to obtain the product in the yellow package from O. M. Olsen.
Advice on preventing and treating scratches caused by cold and wet conditions. Recommends avoiding irritation, using damp cloths with sugar or lead solutions, and winter coverings. When cracks form, apply a lotion with carbolic acid. for discharge, use zinc chloride or zinc lotion, and powdered charcoal may be used on the cloths.
An obscure 19th century notice touts Buck-Ign’s Arnica Salve as the fastest, surest healer for wounds, burns, sores, eczema, chapped hands, piles, and similar ailments. It claims prompt treatment prevents complications and lists a price of 25e at O. M. Oleun.
A rare pituitary gland tumor removal was successfully done at Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane. Miss Maude Ropp endured a four hour operation after three months of preparation, witnessed by thirty five doctors and fifty nurses. Acromegalia, the disease, is typically fatal and causes extreme enlargement of hands feet and facial features leading to blindness and paralysis. Only about fifteen such operations are known.
Two Salt Lake men aim to capture southern Nevada wild horses by shooting with magnesium tipped bullets containing a narcotic capsule. The magnesium dissolves in flesh without permanent injury if vital organs avoid penetration, temporarily disabling the animal. Stallions near valued at $6,000 each, current capture relies on prolonged relays. If successful, the method may be used on other exhibition animals.
Senator Beall of Alton proposes a $100 bonus for each baby born within two years after marriage, not retroactive. In Chicago in 1909 births reached 20,036 with last year’s nine month total 19,147. Twins peak in summer with 15 births in June and July, and about a dozen births in other months.
A witty description links charm to health and cites constipation and kidney poisons causing pimples and a dull complexion. Electric Bitters are praised as a godsend for women, claiming to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys, purify blood, and improve skin, nerves, eyes and breath. Sold for 50c at O. M. Olson.
Prevention of Cruelty to Men notes a Siberian custom where a bride serves a home cooked dinner at her husband’s house. If guests are pleased, it signals her own virtue and reflects well on her family’s instruction.
Newark man James L. Mer shoo writes of nearly eight months unable to work due to lung hemorrhages. After three weeks on Dr King s New Discovery he reports great help in treating weak lungs and persistent coughs. Trial bottle, 50c, 81.00, guaranteed by O. M. Olson.
A powerful earthquake strikes Mexico City causing sixty three deaths and seventy five injuries. Most victims are residents of cheap housing with damage concentrated in Santa Maria and nearby districts. Two old churches and the national palace show cracks. water mains survive.
A Mexican earthquake killed at least 150 people with 63 in Mexico City and 49 bodies recovered in Ocotlán. Tonala was reported wiped out, Colima cathedral damaged, Colima volcano active, though officials deny a volcano link to the quake.
Judge Elbert H Gary testified before the house steel trust investigation committee that United States Steel Corporation does not now control a large share of the nation's steel business. He argued control was about 60 percent in 1901, but current influence is closer to four percent of domestic output, while his own company is said to patrol about nine percent.
Washington report says Republicans fault Taft for not publicly backing 1909 tariff revisions and accuses him of silence aiding private interests. It discusses data delays from the tariff board on steel and woolen industries, and notes the committee's stance against free wool imports while denying abandonment of Democratic policy.
Francisco Madero Jr arrived in Mexico City to a reception described as the greatest in six generations. Business paused as tens of thousands filled streets, waving flags and shouting Viva Madero. He rode from the railway station to the national palace and then to his father’s home, bowing and smiling.
In Council Bluffs Iowa on June 7 Judge W. R. Green a progressive Republican defeated Senator W. F. Cleveland a Democrat and ally of the Canadian pact in a special Ninth district congressional contest by about 1192 votes. The majority trails Walter L. Smith by nearly 700 from last year as turnout fell below sixty percent.
Washington June 6 revision of the cotton tariff will be undertaken at this session of Congress, said Representative Raney of Minnesota, chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee investigating the cotton schedules. Experts are at work and a bill will be drafted soon.
A New Ulm item notes many locals suffer chronic appendicitis treated as ordinary stomach or bowel trouble. It promotes Adlerika as a German appendicitis remedy with simple bark and glycerine compounds. Eugene A. Pfefferle claims a single dose relieves bowel or stomach trouble.
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