Gentle Laxative Touted for Women by Dr Caldwell
Dr W B Caldwell promotes Syrup Pepsin as a mild liquid laxative suitable for women and children. The ad claims it treats constipation liver and stomach complaints, aids digestion, and strengthens bowel muscles. Free trial bottle offered by mail from Monticello Illinois with doctor’s medical consultation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caldwell
Brannan
Alvarado
K. L. Stout
Louisville
Williams
Cal
J. E. Blackmore
Missionary Describes Chinese New Year Customs
Missionary De Haan notes Chinese New Year practices in Lintsing including loud firecrackers, motto posters with happiness characters, and street decorations. He describes visiting habits, the custom of married women returning home, vast card exchanges, and the use of servant messengers who carry cards as credentials, with cautions against abuse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lintsing
Nervous Prostration For Three Years Cure Claim
A testimonial claims Dr Miles Restorative Nervine cured over three years of nervous prostration in a Philadelphia household. It notes the product and Anti Pain Pills as essential, linking nervous troubles to head pain dizziness epilepsy and insanity and attributing many disorders to nerve weakness in organs such as lungs heart stomach kidney bladder and eyes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
WM. J. Loughran
Catherine St
Philadelphia
Penna
Emulsion ad seeks buyers through paper and bank image
Scott's Emulsion offered by all druggists with 10c price in Bend paper ad. The promotion mentions a savings bank and a Child's Sketch-Book, each bank containing a Good Luck Penny. Scott & Bowne, 409 Pearl St, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bend
Savings Bank
Scott & Bowne
Pearl St
New York
Observations on Chinese religion and dress in Lintsing and beyond
The writer notes offerings to idols with incense and food bowls, altars of heaven near Lintsing, and a spring ritual where a corn-stalk cow is beaten in a yamen. They contrast Chinese dress, often vivid and elaborate, with Western views on national history, noting ancient stone figures from the Ming dynasty and the friendliness of crowds toward foreigners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Lintsing
Pekin
Heaven
Sabatier
United States
de Haan
Inside the Great Wall of a Chinese City
The narrator describes the Grand Canal region, ancient granaries turned silk factories, and a vast defensive wall. He recalls the Taiping rebellion, mass graves, deserted streets, and a near-forgotten execution site, noting bells bearing emperors’ names and old cannons along the wall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Canal
Pekin
Brutal vigilante justice described with drum signals
A fragmented account describes a mob or ruling group execute a robber by hanging after a daily beating with a brick pile. It notes a large drum in every city to signal robberies and trigger search parties, with gates closed to trap the thief. (Continued on page 7)
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted as Mercury Free
An old advertisement warns against mercury containing treatments and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as a safe internally taken remedy. It notes testimonials are free and pills for constipation are available from Druggists at 75 cents per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney& Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & Co
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Dr. W. B. Caldwell
Monticello, Ill
Panatorium
Wm.Van Rees
Geo. J. Thomassen
W. G. Vander Ploeg
Thomassen . Vander Ploeg
Pella, Iowa
Rogers Bros
Rtote
Rogers
Meriden Britannia CO. International Silver Co
Scott
J. C. Mitten
Plette & Vander Linden
Geelhoed
Pella
Iowa
City Property
Hyde Co
South Dakota
The
Boland Land Co
Dekker & Klein's Shoe
Orz
LEP Top
J. Blommers & CO
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