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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1900
Page
4
A sprawling editorial tirade complains that Alabama dailies publish revolting crime details about the Blocton murder, urging more wholesome reporting to curb depravity. It also criticizes political machinations in Kentucky, Cuba, and Washington while noting editorials on war, governance, and public safety.
A collage of lightweight vignettes and jokes from New York and Rochester papers, including a tax forfeiture quote from the St Louis Post Dispatch, a Kentucky horseshoe gag, a Waldorf Astoria dog episode, rural justice quirks, and an ad for Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment.
A clerk urges Pratt City merchants to close at six each night except Saturday to grant clerks shorter hours and more family time. He notes miners have eight hour shifts and asks the Commercial Club to help push the change, arguing it benefits clerks and the public.
An old advertisement touts Dr Erskine's Cactus Compound as a laxative tonic that expels malaria and biliousness and promises a clear complexion and weight gain with a money back offer. It also sells AntiErrox fablers as the only laxative digestive cure for chronic chills and malaria with no pay if not cured.
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