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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1900
Page
3
Readable parts describe a dubious health claim for a potion or remedy promising quick cure and health restoration. References to letters and cost suggest an advertisement tone with sensational promises and faulty medical claims lacking verifiable evidence.
In a London suburb Veronica awaits her husband Alan four years after a shipwreck. Hutchinson plots to extort from Alan while Veronica plans to reveal the truth. Alan returns to find Veronica alive with their son, and offloads the painful truth that he is now married, threatening heartbreak for Joyce.
A humorously sharp lament on postwar naming mania shows infants christened after battles and leaders. Names range from Redvers Buller Thompson to Elandslaagte and Talana, spreading from the Cape to South Wales and Pontypridd, with many children bearing combinations of famous monarchs, generals, and explorers.
Major H. L. Kramer leads a $30,000 expansion at the Indiana Mineral Springs hotel complex. A new two story wing adds forty guest rooms, plus a bath house, dining hall, music and billiard rooms, and offices. Completion in 90 days. Plans foresee a 150 room annex after current improvements.
A celebrated astronomer endured twelve years of leg pain before Hopkins Hospital surgeons found a diseased nerve. He refused anesthesia to witness the procedure as two young surgeons performed the nerve removal. The nerve was entirely removed, the wound closed, and within ten days he could dress, walk, and later climb stairs and walk half a mile.
A visitor at the Paris exposition noted the sign Ici on parle toutes les langues and asked who speaks all languages. The manager replied that the customers themselves speak every language, joking that the interpreters are the patrons. The New York Chronicle remarks on the remark.
Lamdort, described by Truth as a society outsider, rarely socializes with friends and lives apart in a Russian office complex. The character Count Mouravieff of Russia figures in the discussion, while other details appear garbled and fragmentary.
Old ad copy states Allen's Foot Ease powder makes tight shoes fit by shrinking swelling and cooling hot feet. Claims cure for swollen feet sweating aching feet ingrown nails corns and bunions. Available at druggists and shoe stores 5 cents. Trial package offered by mail.
The Canton Ohio Ducker Watch Works and Hampden combine to form the finest watch plant in the world. They produce high grade movements and cases with emphasis on reliability and precision. The Hampden 17 jewel lever set is cited as the most accurate, with the Special Railway 23 Jewel favored by railroad men. The Four Hundred, a small ladies watch, showcases the factory’s range. The Irish World notes the Dueber Hampden Works as the greatest watch plant worldwide.
A jumble of ads and opinions extols farm life near the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line in Marinette County Wisconsin. It touts rich crops ample markets good climate pure water and cheap long term land with offers from land agent E Rollins 161 La Salle Street Chicago Illinois.
Advertising copy touts Carter's Ink as affordable for every family and for sensible people who agree with the claim. The text presents a sales pitch highlighting its low cost and broad accessibility.
Promotional ad copy notes Navy recruits will not have to buy uniforms. It jokes about hair growth remedies and cures for nerves, mixing medical ad lines with a sales pitch. References to Dr Kline Great Nerve Restorer and other patent products appear alongside quotations about life and nourishment.
The article extols Marquette Michigan as a charming Lake Superior resort accessible from Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway. It highlights healthful location scenery hotels and immunity from hay fever as key draws for a summer outing and advertises a lake country guide by Geo H Heafford with postage details.
Local claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cleanses blood and mucous surfaces to treat catarrh. Marketed by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio, with a testimony appeal and 75 cent price. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills as best. A New Jersey farmer disturbed burglars when a robin woke him.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease as the cure for swelled feet, smarting, burning, sweating feet, corns, and bunions. It recommends shaking the powder into shoes and lists 25 cents price. It notes Druggists and Shoe Stores carry it and provides Allen S. Olmsted in LeRoy New York. Also mentions automobile omnibuses costing up to $12,000.
A fragment notes that Putnam faceless-dyes do not stain hands or kettle. It mentions Blondin, famed Niagara Falls rope walker, living in Chicago, and cites Magnetic Starch as the best laundry starch.
Fragmentary text describes a sudden disease onset tied to a weakened mucous membrane affecting any organ from lungs to stomach. It implies a single underlying cause without providing specifics or identifiable events or persons.
An advertisement claims catarrh and winter ailments like pneumonia grip and fevers stem from a weakened membrane system. It asserts Pe-ru-Na uniquely cures catarrh by reaching the right place and ending the trouble, insisting other cures fail and urging readers to try Peruna.
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