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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1904
Page
4
An advertising collage extols Peruna with endorsements from Commodore Somerville Nicholson and Dr. Hartman, urging readers to request a free 1904 Peruna Almanac and to buy cough cures. It also touts Salzer seeds and farm yields, offers medical tonics, and includes assorted tips and testimonials from various sources.
Citizens of Altenburg erect a monument to skat, a German whist variant. A column decorated with diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs features atop two pigs symbols of luck and a fountain shooting a water jet.
A rugged account from the High Rockies describes a mountain thunderstorm at 7000 feet that terrifies campers. The narrator, far from home, endures continuous lightning, roaring thunder, and wind that rattles tents, noting the storm often spares rain yet unsettles nerves with its sheer power.
France adopts a three shot compulsory vaccination program. The first dose is required in the first year of infancy, the second at the eleventh year, and the third at the twenty first year, establishing a lifelong immunization schedule.
Mrs Elizabeth H Thompson of Lillydale New York Grand Worthy Wise Templar and W C T U member recounts her recovery using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes severe backache womb trouble and relief after using six bottles noting family improvements including a niece's rapid recovery and a family birth.
Mrs J Ool E J Gresham praises Peruna in a letter saying she suffered catarrh of head and lungs until doctors gave up. She tried one bottle, then two and three with slow improvements. After six bottles she fully recovered and now urges others to use Peruna.
An ad style warning urges women to avoid catarrh and consumption risking pneumonia and lasting illness. It promotes Peruna as a preventive and cure, claiming it safeguards households and offers expert medical advice from Dr Hartman of The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus Ohio. The text imitates plain talk about health risks and product claims.
A man sells beads to a young woman then shows fine French flaxen thread he claims to brought from France as a curiosity. He says the thread is incredibly valuable and would cost $600 per pound with the length of one thread 22g miles, likening it to cobwebs and precious fabrics.
Swinburne introduces John Macallan Swan, an animal painter, to the Prince of Wales in an exchange where the prince expresses delight in animals. A Urbana Illinois resident, Joshua Heller, testifies in 1899 that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved kidney trouble and back pain, endorsing the remedy over time with Foster Milburn Co. as proprietors and druggists selling at 50 cents per box.
A New York Herald note says Nostradamus followers claim a quatrain foretells the pope Leo XIII death in the twentieth century. French occultist M Douchet cites a prediction tying the date to the Borel(i) comet vanishing on Leo’s death day.
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