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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1899
Page
9
Reading from Vienna Mark Twain quipped that ladies can wear shoes with comfort, praising Allen's Foot-Ease for swollen feet and bunions. The ad-like excerpt touts ease of wear, fit, and relief, including coins and a mail trial offer. It also briefly notes China’s emperor and a goat training amusement as a stray aside.
A letter from Madame Copa Ginsox of Manistee reports severe pelvic and back pain, heavy menses, and infertility. After following Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound guidance, she became pregnant and continues use with gratitude. A second account from Mrs. Bancusar of New Castle describes seven years of marriage with miscarriages and womb issues, now free of leucorrhea and back pains, crediting the medicine with restoring health and vitality.
A sermon on integrity contrasts buyers and sellers using Proverbs as a framework. It critiques exaggeration, false value, and dutiful responsibility, warns against imitation of corrupt peers, and urges Christians to prioritize spiritual life over worldly gain, ending with a call to personal accountability.
A sponsor at a baptism mistook the infant’s name, saying Mary as the godchild’s name while the minister sought the baby’s name Rebecca Elizabeth, prompting laughter among the gathering. The sponsor later quipped she would have faced the mother if not corrected. Major Whipple of Massachusetts faced a dentist’s objection during a WWI exam yet insisted on serving and went on to fight in Spain, earning praise for his endurance. The Victorian Scottish regiment has only sixty four enrollees from 400 in a mosquito season preview.
A Washington letter from Hon. Judson W. Lyons, Register of the Treasury, praises Perana for spring and summer moods and heat tiredness. It notes Lyons as a prominent political figure, a familiar signature on U.S. currency, with Augusta Georgia as his address and ties to the National Republican Committee and President Melinler.
A vintage medical ad asserts that cholera morbus summer complaint and related bowels catarrh respond to Veru-63 by Dr Hartman of Columbus Ohio. It claims his forty year practice never lost a case and invites readers to request a free copy of Summer Catarrh for details.
An 1890s style ad promises a free sample bottle of Swanson Rheumatic Cure for 4 cents postage. It lists cures for rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia, asthma, hay fever, catarrh, toothache, neural headaches, heart weakness, earache, malaria, dropsy, creeping numbness, bronchitis and grip. The offer limits the sample to ten days from the issue date and cites Lake Street Chicago as the address for orders.
A dialogue notes a daughter's claimed cooking skills and price concerns. Mentions Hall's Catarrh Cure as constitutional care priced at 75 cents.
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