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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1910
Page
4
The letter notes the death of Dr. Otte from bubonic plague contracted from a patient in Amoy. Those who cared for him were exposed but precautions are in place. Services will be held this P M. The loss deeply saddens the Mission and Grand Rapids family.
Dr Jennie Ghrist writes from Singapore in 1910 to her family and friends about her travels through Batavia Java and Singapore. She notes Dutch and British rule, vibrant fruit and tropical flora, cholera quarantines, hotel life with mosquito nets, and local life including Malay workers Chinese merchants and sultanate customs. She describes the island's size time difference and exports tin rubber and peppers as Rangoon awaits with elephants.
An old advertisement asserts that deafness results from an inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and offers one hundred dollars for any case of deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promotes circulars and lists F J Cheney & Co of Toledo as makers and claims availability through druggists. It also upsells Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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