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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1906
Page
4
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for backache irregular periods displacements and nervousness. It claims decades of cures and urges women to seek advice from Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts with free guidance from Myra Pinkham.
An advertisement touts Mull's Anti Belch Wafers as an instant cure for bad breath and belching. It claims to purify the stomach, absorb foul gases, relieve seasickness and headache, prevent indigestion, and stop various stomach-related symptoms with no drugs. It also notes the product destroys tobacco or onion breath and promises the offer may not reappear.
A 19th century coupon solicitation invites readers to send name, address, and pharmacist details along with 10 cents in stamps to receive a free sample of Moull’s Anti-Belch Wailers. It promises a 26 cent certificate toward future purchases and claims the wafers cure stomach troubles by absorption. Mail to Mort’s Graph Tontc Co. 328 3d Ave Rock Island Ill.
Miss Mayzie C Atkins of East Orleans Massachusetts reports relief from a year of scalp humor sores itching and hair loss after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent Pills. She claims complete cure with one cake one box and one vial.
Mrs. Laura Sullivan of Marquette Michigan describes backache bearing down pain and swelling of limbs. After using Deans Kidney Pills she felt relief within half a box and was cured, with bloating subsiding and health restored. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
T M L of Indiana Farmer voices frustration with Indiana road law and supervisor wages. He describes hauling gravel, pit labor, and failed schedules, noting railroad and county practices. He argues for changing the law to give supervisors parity with private bidders and laments inconsistent funding and labor access.
A Weekly Witness note recounts a Kansas meeting where speakers praised using a simple drag to improve dirt roads. They advise slow driving, riding the drag, and using two logs or a box elder to form a durable, level surface.
The text argues that federal aid to states for highways is a clear national obligation, essential to national life and development. It cites the cost of bad roads, the rural free delivery service, and the touring automobile as reasons for a great national movement led by the government to build better roads. It also recalls a boyhood memory from the Collier’s piece and a Los Angeles Express anecdote.
The Raleigh city talks of purchasing the water works for 310000 while the plant is bonded at 250000 and capitalized at 100000. Last year gross earnings were 35000 with profits of 5000. Dowie denies a settlement with Overseer Voliva though his lawyers say he will. Voliva declined to comment.
A rebuttal letter defends Grape-Nuts and Postum against alleged claims of stale bread and adulteration. The author attacks labor editors, pledges strict scrutiny of critics, and describes factory processes and nutrition analyses to prove the products' purity and value.
A quoted reader piece accuses cooking teachers and "demonstrators" funded by a sanitarium of enticement and deception to praise Grape Nuts and Postum. It denounces a small doctor heading the institution for instructing lecturers to propogate false claims, likening him to a member of the tribe of Ananias. The column notes a New York sting netted $10 to a brave young woman who challenged the lecturer.
Editors describe grocers trade papers as cattle in a pasture. When advertising is refused they accuse and slander, printing false rumors about Postum and Grape-Nuts. The piece argues for legal action and branding the papers to set public perception straight.
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