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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1898
Page
8
An ex-Kansas man recalls meeting Wild Bill in Topeka in fall 1874. He describes Bill in a blue army overcoat riding a brown mare named Nell and firing at a groceries sign, with all six bullets striking the letter O, shown as a bold onlookers’ display of running shooting.
Jacob M Shafer of Farmington Illinois writes that Dr Kay's Renovator is the most satisfactory remedy he has used for blood poisoning and biliousness from wartime hospital service. The firm claims top efficacy for dyspepsia constipation liver and kidney issues and offers a 68 page recipe book with mail order sales from Omaha Nebraska.
A witty exchange in the Indianapolis Journal features Wickwire and Yabsey debating prohibition era views. Wickwire notes his wife’s uncle opposes distilling as sacrilege, while Yabsey mocks the Kentucky uncle for deeming it an insult to the distilling apparatus.
Allen's Foot-Ease powder eases painful swollen feet and bunions and makes tight shoes feel easy. It relieves sweating and calluses and can be bought at druggists and shoe stores or ordered by mail for 25 cents with a free trial package from Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy New York.
Mrs Callahan laments the fate of poor women under harsh husbands and a neighbor retorts that she was belligerent twenty years ago. The exchange mirrors a harsh domestic dynamic noted in a column from the Atlanta Journal.
An old advertisement promotes No-No-Bae as a miracle aid to quit tobacco. It claims it makes the user strong and full of vitality and offers a booklet and sample by Sterling Remedy Co. in Chicago or New York.
The report notes 46 foot waves off Cape Horn and 765 foot wave crests, with 43 foot seas in the north Atlantic and Mediterranean peaks around 14 feet. A judge quips about fear when proposing champagne and oysters.
Mrs. B K Arrowr testifies that Emma Rybolt of Milford Indiana recovered from nervous prostration with pains and body tremors after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She claims Emma gained weight and strength and credits the medicine with curing her illness and restoring health.
A sparse, unnamed Pacific island community held a small funeral in Makiki with four men carrying the casket on poles and two men with shovels following. The procession traveled along Beretania Street from Kamaukapili, noted for its solitary, outsider-averse residents and lack of foreign contact.
The article reports new official circulars by Raymond Du Puy announcing the abolishment of the superintendent of transportation role and the reassignments of Berlingert to the southwest division, Kelley to the northwest division, and Cornelison as acting superintendent of the eastern division with respective districts and headquarters in Des Moines, St. Paul, and Dubuque.
In Ravensmere Lady Hildred Caraven exposes John Blantyre as a corrupt agent who falsified accounts to plunder tenants and gain favors. The earl yields to his wife's judgment, dismisses Blantyre, and new reforms for workers and estate governance unfold under their joint supervision. The couple grows toward mutual respect as vision of humane improvements expands.
A fragment shows a tense meeting where Ford Dumers is angry after a departure and a vow of vengeance from John Blantyre looms, leaving the woman to wonder what fate awaits if the oath is kept.
Two French women patent a scrubbing brush designed to attach to the shoe with straps and a heel plate, enabling a person to clean floors while standing upright.
A collage of medicinal cures, tonics, and patent medicines advertised in a periodical. Products include Walla Catarrh Cure, Cee's Cough Balsam, Love Sunshine & Co. wholesalers, Mrs. Winslow's Syrup, Piso's Cure, No-To-Bac, Cascarets, and Athtophoros treatment. Also mentions a special Philadelphia school for backward children and Izalco volcano height data.
A pamphlet style appeal argues maternal neglect harms daughters and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's remedies. It quotes a letter from Miss Maine FE Johnson of Centralia Pennsylvania describing fatigue pain irregular menses and weight loss, claiming recovery after following Pinkham's guidance and using Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills.
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