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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
4
A Greenwood resident recalls five years of worsening kidney disease with dull backache and disordered secretions. After repeated treatments failed, he credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring strength and ending kidney trouble. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box. Buffalo makers Foster Milburn Co.
A dated gloss of proverbs from various languages includes lines about belief, honesty, consequences, gossip, and intellect. It notes phrases like If lies were Latin and A day's pleasure and a year's grief, with a cryptic line about brains earning money.
An ill health story shows a man who gave up coffee and improved after two years on Postum. He reports better sleep, fewer nervous spells, relief from indigestion, weight gain, and overall health gains. The letter ends with a promotional line about Postum, signed as a genuine testimonial.
Consul General Robert P Skinner in Marseilles reports a "Train Reward" test on French highways. A locomotive powers a string of passenger and baggage cars, achieving 13 mph on level passenger runs and about 9.3 mph for freight, with potential to serve 25 000 French communes lacking rail links. He notes francetrack auto-omnibuses already connect distant hamlets and foresees railless trains expanding rural transport, contrasting U S road systems.
Governor Stuart outlines a plan for a Pennsylvania trunk highway from Pittsburg to Philadelphia with lateral branches. He argues good roads connect urban and rural areas, stimulate development, and set a model for counties and townships to build and maintain public highways.
A Japanese tradition requires women to reveal their actual age. Women dress by age and wear gold pins until twenty five. At thirty the pins fade to white with gold specks, and at forty they switch to plain shell combs.
Oysters flourish best in water with less than four percent salt. This suggests estuarine conditions favoring shellfish growth where salinity is kept below this threshold.
A pithy line on humor and restraint. The speaker notes that a comic tale withheld may reveal either mean temperament or a fresh narrative force. The remark hints at the value and risk in storytelling.
Mrs V V Albert of Upper Inchville Me describes a rheumatic leg sore battle lasting fifteen years. After three doctors and failed remedies, she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Within three weeks sores dried up and burning stopped. after three months he was entirely well. Testimony dated July 21 1907.
A drug advertisement touts Hicks Capuchine as a liquid headache remedy for colds heat stomach or nervous troubles with no Accetanilid or dangerous drugs. It is sold in bottles 10c regular sizes 5c and 50c at all druggists.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers $100 for any catarrh deafness case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, sold by druggists for 75 cents, from F.J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
The article urges men to train as their own tree doctors. It advises removing suckers, treating borers, fighting fungus, and discouraging insects all summer. It recommends diagnosing trees in winter and stabilizing loosened currant bushes with soil and coal ashes.
Tarrenius has helped eczema tetter and other skin diseases with marvellous cures in aggravated cases. Thousands report relief at druggists or by mail from T. Suurtzing Savannah Ga. Also a note on swimming safety and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething.
The ad urges lonely women to seek health through Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It cites testimonials from Mrs. Maggie Gilmer and Mrs. Josephine Hall about restored health and motherhood, and presents the remedy as a longstanding answer to female ailments and displacements. It invites letters to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
A guide advises a lost person to move cautiously two miles per hour through snow. He should follow tracks and the last passing vehicle toward shelter, assuming daylight, with a plan to regain the road by afternoon. The guidance emphasizes avoiding panic and over-exertion while enduring a week of hardship.
A Bohemian Magazine November excerpt recalls a boarding house joke where a teacher forgets her toothbrush and the landlady quips that Sara took it to visit for a week. The piece closes with a reflection on speech and silence, linking domestic humor to language use.
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