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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1899
Page
7
A fragmented letter from Ex-Congressman A T Goodwyn praises Pe-ru-na from Columbus Ohio. The piece promotes Dr Hartman’s catarrh remedy as a national cure and urges readers to request a free book. A humorous dialogue closes the fragment.
Washington reports a court of inquiry into army beef supplies during the Cuba and Puerto Rico expeditions. Testimony covers canned roast beef, refrigerated beef, and contract responsibility with Swift & Company. Witnesses describe taste, spoilage claims, and enlisted men’ s reactions to canned and fresh beef amid ration concerns.
Chief Surgeon Kean reports 61 typhoid cases in January with 24 in the First division and 37 in the Second, mainly in the Second South Carolina and Forty-ninth Iowa regiments. Five typhoid deaths occurred in February. First division malaria totals 99 cases, Second division 97. Disinfection steps continue as underground sewers and main pipe connections near completion in March.
Havana February 25 The fourth anniversary of the revolution against Spain is marked by Gen Gomez leading about 2000 Cuban cavalry and infantry into Havana. He is received with enthusiastic citizenly cheers. Casualties in the Philippines list shows 3 dead and 347 wounded since Dewey’s Manila approach last March. Fire smokeless powder and a comic exchange about a man’s trousers close the item with light humor.
A vintage advertisement style page offers a free small book on stomach diseases and indigestion, claiming nine tenths of diseases start with weak digestion. It urges readers to mail name and address to F A Stuart Co in Marshall Michigan for the pamphlet. It also mentions Grain-O as a coffee substitute and other medical ads and notes on health products.
A Galveston woman thanks Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and advice for curing backache headaches whites and menstrual pain. The letter praises the remedy, claims renewed health, sleep, appetite, and urges others to try it to avoid hospital operations.
A garbled mix of recipe fragments for apple batter and egg whites, claims about goldmine flour, and various patent remedies. It includes an offer of a one hundred dollar reward for cataract cures, praise for Hall's Catarrh Cure, and endorsements for Alabastine wall coating with directions and cautions about fake four pound packages.
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