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Newspaper
North Platte Semi Weekly Tribune
Location
North Platte, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1908
Page
3
Dr. W B Winn introduces a home fumigation compound in St Louis using permanganate of potash and formaldehyde to kill germs and pests. The method claims to choke billions of bacilli with fumes, offering a simple household disinfection approach.
Dr Winn demonstrates a home fumigation method using permanganate of potash and formaldehyde to kill tuberculosis and other microbes within about an hour. The process requires just an iron bucket, heat the formaldehyde, mix, and ventilate the room. Reporters exposed to the vapors showed no visible germs, supporting the method’s safety.
A Muskogee Oklahoma Seneca band Preserve an old Wood Face order. Members wear carved wooden masks and turtle shell rattles to call spirits and drive out illness. The ritual includes ash on the patient’s head and secret signs guarded like Freemasonry.
A Pittsburg report details two major thefts in two years totaling 1 591 000 dollars. Edward Cun life stole 101 000 en route to a Cincinnati bank and is jailed. C S Hixson and Clifford Wray took 385 000 from Union Trust, lost to speculation.
A fragment quotes a character asking what was done with breakfast food given at a house. The response reveals the item is being smoked in a pipe, implying a concealed or illicit use. The line suggests a casual, rural conversational tone and hints at a story about a suspicious exchange.
Historical ad claims catarrh is a widespread chronic disease and promotes a proprietary cure by J. Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. It asserts the product acts on mucous surfaces, offers a hundred dollar reward for failure, and urges sending testimonials to Druggists for Hall's Family Pills.
A Louisville Courier-Journal snippet quotes remarks on genius and eccentric behavior. The dialogue mocks the idea that a brilliant doctor touches every post he passes, then shifts to a quip about geniuses touching every friend they meet. It frames genius as a curious habit rather than a trait.
Important to Mothers advises careful examination of Castoria bottles for the signature of "jeenvy" and notes it has been in use for over six years as the kind you have always bought.
A doumaite questions the gulf between ordinary humanity and an autocrat. The exchange centers on whether such inequality exists and how it shapes czarchnaem era governance.
Chocolate pies gain popularity as a healthful, nutritious option. Easy to make with ready ingredients on the pack. Put up by D-Zoerta Co. Rochester, N.Y.
The highest reward lies in right living and calm contentment beyond praise or gold, a sentiment attributed to Tupper.
Advertising copy notes Allen's Foot-Ease as a cure for rough hot itching corns and calluses. Mentions a material package price and substituting offerings. Provides a stray address line for Allen at Olmsted and Roy.
Germany exports 29 million feathers annually to England for millinery. An ad promotes cigars from Lewis' Factory in Peoria Illinois. A quirky line markets health and beauty remedies with dramatic claims. Architreet Philadelphia is mentioned alongside a social quip about a pretty woman's smile and a man's purse.
A promotional appeal urges readers to write to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for private medical guidance. It claims decades of correspondence with sick women validate her insights and promise confidential, potentially helpful advice.
Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allentown Pa credits Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound with curing her organic derangement and female weakness after a doctor advised surgery She details headaches nervousness and relief from multiple female illnesses after following the remedys directions Facts for sick women say the compound has been a standard cure for thirty years helping thousands with displacements inflammation ulcers fibroids irregularities backache and other female ailments.
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