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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
4
A poetic lament for ancient valor and noble romance. Miniver longs for bright swords and gallant steeds, sighing over vanished renown and art become a wanderer in a town. The speaker yearns for heroic days and timeless legends.
In a cluttered house twins Faye and Fern hide as a piano lesson approaches. A storeroom miscue leads to a broken carving and a mirror-illusion mistaken identity. The sisters learn a lesson on truth and kindness ending with a vow for four monkeys to remind them to think no evil.
The Christian World asserts that the heaviest burden a man bears is the accumulation of sensuous deeds born of evil passions. This growing mass sits on the shoulders, weighing down all other thoughts and driving him toward ruin.
A humorous exchange in Punch Bowl features Mrs Nuritch asking about fashion while a doctor warns her digestion is off and prescribes a diet. The dialogue satirizes social vanity and medical admonition.
The Philadelphia Press notes that flies once thought useful as scavengers are now seen by science as spreaders of pollution. Knowing the source of the harm allows targeting the origin to combat the issue.
Police Judge J H Wills of Cloverport Kentucky offers to answer inquiries from kidney backache and bladder sufferers about Dean's Kidney Pills He endorses the remedy as best he has seen and notes it is sold for 59 cents per box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY Also included are various testimonials and advertisements for eczema cures asthma bronchitis and seeds from Salzer and Selzer Seed Co with literary quotes.
A promotional note extols Syrup of Fig and Elixir of Senna as a safe pleasant laxative. It claims the remedy cleanses and relieves internal organs without debility or increasing dose, and notes its components are physician approved. It urges purchasing only the California Fig Syrup Co. product.
The fragment promotes Taylor's Cherokee Remedy, Garfield Tea, Minard's Liniment, and Pazo Ointment with claims of curing coughs lung troubles neuralgia piles and other conditions. It includes prices for the Cherokee Remedy and a general notice about legal matters and public safety warnings. The ad tone resembles a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper listing patent medicines.
Manning Iowa woman Mrs T C Willadsen writes that Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cured her severe female troubles after years of ineffective treatments. She urges other sick women to try it and to write Mrs Pinkham for advice. The ad touts three decades of claims of cures for uterine and nervous complaints and invites letters from readers.
Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion claims a 30 minute cure for itching with universal effectiveness. Available at druggists.
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