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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1898
Page
3
In Pisok Boehenin hydrophobia causes local authorities to order every dog in the town killed. The report includes odd dialogue and a note on ex Senator Tabor being appointed Denver postmaster and selling the post office land to the government for $1.
A Cleveland editor urges readers to treat cold with Dr. J C Ayer s Cherry Pectoral. A letter from W I Lawrence of the Ohio Farmer praises its swift relief after a severe cold and urges travelers and households to keep a bottle handy. The ad touts cures for coughs and lung troubles and announces half size bottles at half price with a free carebook upon request.
A Boston journalist recalls a 1729 Birmingham tale of a real Lady who arrived with an equipage and sought a husband in a licenseable marriage. An excise man, chosen by her groom, married her for £200 as pursuers tracked the truth behind the sudden nuptials. The anecdote invites Hardylike curiosity on motive and fate.
A mixture of notices covers Salzer Seed Co. offering German Coffee Berry seeds and a 15 cent stamp offer, plus a German opera on the Thirty Years War. Separately, a German professor reports finding living bacteria in aged wine. A new coal plant at Sandusky Ohio for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad details an elevated track system with drop-bottom buckets and derricks, aiming for 280 tons per hour. operation slated for April 1.
A thin neck and shoulders may be remedied by a course of gymnastic exercise and massage with cocoa butter. Singing lessons will also help to fill out the hollows and banish the shadows of collarbone often revealed by a low necked gown.
A scattered collection of farm land pitch for the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway along Lac Qui Parle County Minnesota urging buyers to inspect Madison or Dawson farms with wheat yields claimed as under twenty bushels per acre. The text shifts to medical testimonials for Dr. Kay’s Renovator and Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children, plus other assorted patent remedies, tobacco cures, and light political quips, all framed as advertisements and editorials.
Clara Morris the actress recounts in John Hick Coachesman writings how he celebrated her birthday by using green silk from a dress to fashion a flag adornment on Saint Patrick’s morning. He claimed the green silk flew in her honor but the Stars and Stripes did not fly that day. Honest Irish American, he had served with arms in the flag’s history.
In a terse exchange, Willie questions the meaning of two floating debts while his father references their yacht, revealing a cautious, maritime family dynamic. The dialogue hints at preoccupation with finance and a high-seas lifestyle.
Practical advice for stain removal and cleaning across household items. It covers removing grease from fabrics with soap and water, avoiding hot water, treating enameled saucepans with lime chloride, testing coffee quality by crown formation, preserving food in air-tight storage, cleaning enameled baths with a mica-based cleaner and turpentine, and fur care advising goat soap and gentle brushing to maintain fur texture and remove flour residues.
The secretary of the navy urges more battleships and Congress will weigh his recommendations. Defense and fortifications are needed for seaports, while various remedies and consumer ads parade through the page. Notes include folklore on Tartars, foot powder, blood cleansing candies, and cures for coughs and constipation amid a jumble of ads and quotes.
Timmenge Shipments of Fotators. The John A. Salter Seed Co. of La Crosse Wisconsin shipped 1 400 barrels of Salzer's 66 Weeks Markos Potatoes to customers within 25 days. The potato is touted as the finest flavored, heaviest producing early potato in the country. Truman W Hadley, Cleveland banker, who just turned 91, loaned $2 500 to John D Rockefeller when he started his business.
Mrs Jennie Lauriz of Philadelphia testifies after nine weeks in bed with ovarian inflammation and discharge. She details severe pain upon activity, high medical costs, and credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with a complete cure and strong faith in the remedy.
An odd, fragmented exchange features an Englishman asking about tariff and bookage in Boston. The railroad ticket clerk brushes off politics as the Borax water claim to smooth skin is noted, with fragmented phrases about tar and tariff.
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