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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1903
Page
4
A veteran circus showman discusses the lure of life on the road. He notes the harsh pay for workers beyond stars, the constant travel, and the bloodtaste of the sawdust life that keeps men returning each season despite hardship. He highlights canvassers paid twenty dollars monthly plus board and a persistent rush of applicants.
Mrs P Brunzel of Everett Washington credits Dean's Kidney Pills with curing fifteen years of back and groin pain after five boxes. She reports initial relief followed by a recurrence, then another three days' treatment, and she resumes health. The ad claims a free trial and lists Gross Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and pharmacy availability at 50 cents per box.
Practical household guidance on laundry handling avoid delicate items on windy days use pillowcase line. food pairings warn against combining certain items at meals. advice on meringue making keep oven cooler and add sugar. noodles served with fish with fried scraps as a garnish and cream sauce for the fish.
A humorous guidance piece outlines practical tips for a prudent housewife. It suggests offering lightly used loan items like napkins and lamp chimneys, storing best possessions out of sight, and keeping common tools and stamps accessible to manage neighbors and avoid loss.
Instructions detail cucumber salad with French dressing, Cecils with Tomato Sauce combining rare roast beef and breadcrumbs, Raisin Puffs with butter and raisins plus a creamy sauce, Hot Pot layering mutton, potatoes, onions and stock then baked until tender.
Miss Gannon of the Detroit Amateur Art Association endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female weakness and suffering. The letter claims restoration in six weeks and urges other women to try it. The passage also includes assorted anecdotes, poetry, and product notices from early 20th century periodicals.
The Rivera memorial to Queen Victoria will be a cottage hospital at Nice. Mercury in catarrh remedies is dangerous and Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo claims no mercury, sold by druggists at 75 cents. Indian laborers are recruited for diamond mines near Kimberley. Edward Halley pioneered mercury in thermometers in 1680.
The Kobe Chronicle praises Japan for order politeness and decorum during the Emperor’s Kobe visit and Osaka Exhibition while noting police insistence on uncovered heads pre-visit. Western observers differ noting funeral like silence yet equal devotion, with London Mail remarking Western crowds favor loud display over Japanese quietude.
The Academy laments today’s writers in an editorial titled Exuberance. It argues high living or plain thinking, plus city life’s monotony and crowding, have produced literature marked by moderation and depression rather than vigor.
Seattle Washington and St Michaels Alaska are connected by tele graph improving cross coastal communication and travel coordination between the two ports and regions.
A Kansas City reader and a Sheridan Indiana man credit Peruna with curing pelvic catarrh and related kidney and liver symptoms. They praise the remedy’s cure in weeks and months and urge others to try it and write for free medical advice.
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