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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
6
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a non alcoholic vegetable tonic. It claims to aid digestion and nerve reconstruction, with a history of forty years’ cures. Ingredients include Queen's root Stone root and Bloodroot. It sells in pellet form and advertises a medical adviser booklet.
A WWI era tale recounts a bootblack who shows a strand of bluebells to a starving family. The story follows a father’s drunken ruin, a mother’s struggle, and a child’s grief as a girl drowns while the father sinks into despair. The narrator pledges to oppose whiskey licenses.
An advertisement claims deafness is due to inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube and not curable by local applications. It offers one hundred dollars for any case of deafness caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, with circulars available and sales through Druggists at 75 cents. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Mrs. Nels Nelson of Holt county Nebraska, mother of ten under fifteen, was ordered off her two year homestead claim and deported for not being head of a family, while her husband serves a twenty year prison term. The World notes U S laws allow only unmarried or widowed women to file. Alice Stone Blackwell comments on suffrage critics.
Simon Van Dusseldorp died Tuesday at his home on the Mat Tice farm. Tuberculosis is believed to be the cause of death.
Abraham Donker died on Tuesday of last week at the home of Mr and Mrs Ver Ploeg five miles south of Pella. He had resided with the Ver Ploegs for some time.
Mrs. Cora Walker of Porterville California testifies Chamberlains Cough Remedy is best for colds and pneumonia prevention. It is stated as the quickest cure, most pleasant and safe to take, with strong local endorsement and sale by A. D. Stubenrauch.
The 31st semi annual meeting of the Upper Des Moines Editorial Association of Iowa is in session at Iowa City on January 18 and 19. An elaborate program has been arranged with some of the foremost speakers in the country. The newspaper boys always enjoy these gatherings and this year's meeting is expected to be equally lively.
An 19th century advertisement touts Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar as superior for coughs and colds. It claims to expel all cold through a bowel laxative action, offers immediate relief for group coughs colds whooping cough and similar ailments. Children prefer it and it is sold by H M Laneral.
A claim that Wool ford's Sanitary Lotion cures itch in thirty minutes is marketed by B F Keables' Druggist in Pella Iowa. The terse notice promotes a proprietary remedy and local sale.
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