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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1905
Page
1
A sale listing offers vast quantities of laces, embroideries, ribbons, and textiles with deep discounts. Items include embroideries by the yard, rugs, umbrellas, neckwear, gowns, shirts, braids, bindings, handbags, and various waists and silks. Numerous prices and special weekly offers highlight low-cost fabrics and fashion supplies for women and men.
Justice Davis condemns Nan Patterson testimony while urging restraint for judges in public remarks. Roosevelt reportedly plans a Southern tour with Raleigh and Charlotte stops, and Petersburg hopes for a presidential visit. Thos Lawson’s quiet stance on Frenzied Finance draws mixed verdicts, Pat Crowe eludes Omaha police, and a sympathetic strike ends bricks by artisans in St. Louis.
The article notes malaria as largely a country disease due to swampy wells and irrigation, with city cases tied to rural exposure or border marshes. It discusses city food supply fragility, milk handling, and old stagecoach rate wars, followed by satirical pointed paragraphs on social quirks.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for a catarrh cure and endorses Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes consumer testimonials from druggists, claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, and notes price 75 cents per bottle with a call to buy Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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