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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1898
Page
7
Fragmentary ad text touts Lifeway products and Vac wonder worker, mentions Wisselow's soothing syrup and a cheery tone. Attacking Norway army sleeve shows skaters with rifles can maneuver on ice or snow with cavalry speed.
An assortment of era advertising lines mentions Fall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with price hints, a Manila city housing statement, a cryptic note on transubstantiation, and various quips about cures, births, a Japanese tree custom, and a lament about bricks from flour. The fragmented item lacks a clear single event.
An open letter asserts mothers hold rights to the name Castoria and its pitchman signature. Dr Samuel Pitcher of Hyannis Massachusetts says he originated Pitcher’s Castoria, stating the wrapper bears his and Charlie Fletcher’s fac simile signatures. The message mentions trademark claims, political notices, and odd ad snippets about litharge and cosmetics.
The passage mixes household chatter with a joking political aside about forming an alliance with England and the United States. It includes characters Maurice Jolie Mamma and papa, a bed scene deception, a mock treaty idea, and a satire on imperial ambition alongside a line urging Opstetter's Stomach Dilders for health.
An advertisement from Dr. J. G. Ayers Pills argues back strain from lifting heavy heads of vain kinds and farm work can cause liver trouble, citing BR. W. Bentley of Towner North Dakota who recovered to tend seventy head of stock. The copy touts pills as a liver remedy aiding digestion, constipation, and overall health with testimonials from F. Alston Quitman Texas and others, urging continued use.
A Madrid dispatch reports Gen. Correa refuses Aguinaldo Herald's surrender proposal to spare natives. The war extends with 20,000 enemy troops, 1600 sick, 260 wounded, and a crowded walled city of refugees complicating defense amid heavy rain and bombardment risk.
A Cuban theater dispatch lists 18 American dead from the La Quasina fight, naming Private Oto Kamp Corporal Alexander Llence and others across First Cavalry Tenth Cavalry and United States Volunteer Cavalry. Total fatalities reach 964 across engaged units.
Summary of yesterday National League results with Cleveland and New York scores and interleague matchups. Also notes the end of the Western Baseball association due to disbandment driven by financial losses, and lists standings from Interstate and Western League games across multiple cities.
The conference report on the bankruptcy bill was adopted 124 to 53 in the House, sending the measure to the President. Debates featured Democrats Terry De Armond and McRae against the bill, with Henderson Underwood and Ray supporting it. The session also handled army pay for volunteers and raised ordnance, engineer, and quartermaster departments. In St Louis recruiting rose as news from Santiago spurred enlistments, including two colored companies for the Seventh United States Volunteers.
Educators from various parts of the United States gather in Omaha Nebraska for the Trans Mississippian educational convention. The initial session was held last evening and the four day event will continue with four days of sessions and discussions.
A chaotic OCR extract shows advertisements and notices from a historic paper. It mentions grain products for health, a dictionary display, railway car prices, beauty claims with Cascarets, school meals in Paris, salesmen schemes, postal figures from Ireland, Cosmo Buttermilk Soap, denial of a marriage rumor about Nellie Grant Sartoris and Douglass, No-To-Bac claims, and a Moscow hospital with 7 000 capacity. The tone is promotional and news-like with varied named entities and monetary figures.
An old advertisement mentions an ax for sale at two dollars per acre by Tpald F Bulietl and Sions. A separate line notes Europe’s population rising from about 250 million fifty years ago to over 360 million today.
Mrs Lucy Goodwin recounts four years of womb troubles and nervous prostration, claiming Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanitive Wash cured her. After three bottles she gained weight from 108 to 131 1/2 pounds and can perform housework, urging others to try the medicine.
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