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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1916
Page
8
A vintage advertisement extols Resinol for clearing eczema ringworm rashes and other skin conditions. It promotes Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap, aided by warm baths, as prescribed by doctors for over 20 years, with claims of quick healing at low cost and wide drugstore availability.
A health note urges drinking a glass of hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and intestines. It claims the inside bath purifies the body, reduces headaches and digestive ills, and promotes overall wellness.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph humorous exchange depicts a customer doubting an item’s age and a dealer correcting a misdated inscription. The dealer claims the line reads 1219 after noting the assistant misread six hundred years. The dialogue highlights confusion over dating and authenticity in a comic antique sale.
An advertorial promotes Jad Salts as a safe inexpensive remedy to flush kidneys and bladder, claiming four ounces daily in water before breakfast dissolves acids, cleans sluggish kidneys, prevents nocturnal trips, and reduces rheumatic pains. It cites grape and lemon juice acids plus bicarbonate and urges regular use among meat eaters.
In a brisk exchange about work and honesty a man asserts he seeks work through proper principle. The piece reflects dialect humor while framing a lesson on integrity. X rays in India are used to determine age. Over 60 000 people in New York esty aw antemobiles.
Reports by C O Lloyd show rising farm tenancy in Iowa driven by land speculation and price surges from 1909 to 1910, with 37.5 percent tenants in 1910. The analysis, aided by the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station and US Department of Agriculture, notes larger farms and delayed ownership as tenancy grows, while also recounting nearby discoveries of a snake nest near Knoxville, a fatal door accident in Des Moines, and high corn seed prices in Dubuque.
A man long believed dead, Frank Johnson, returned to claim his share of an estate after heirs arranged to settle. Johnson, now a landscape gardener in Minneapolis, had vanished seventeen years ago. his revival follows a court allowing inheritance rights. The Iowa items include road paving plans from Des Moines to Ames and a large Knoxville farm sale.
A four month old boy, son of Otis B Pray, died after toppling from a chair while his mother sat four feet away. The infant learned to walk and pulled himself up before losing his grip and falling to the floor, breaking his neck.
Saskatchewan Farmer advertisement recounts two American settlers, MM. P. Tysdal and S. Schweitzberger, praising land, taxes, and laws in Saskatchewan. Tysdal notes $32 annual tax per quarter section and no war tax, with strong crops since 1912. Schweitzberger cites $635 yearly taxes per half section and wheat yields over 50 bushels per acre.
An old advertisement urges mothers to inspect Castoria bottles for safety and the signature of PG, claiming it has been in use for over three decades. The copy touts Castoria as a sure remedy for infants and children and includes a quirky cartoonish line about germs in kisses leading to matrimony.
Letter to the editor from Henry A. Love praising Dr. Pierce and his Anuric Tablets from the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo New York. He claims relief from back ache left side pain frequent urination and rheumatism after trying other kidney medicines. Note mentions hospital experiments found Anuric 37 times more active than lithia and requests ten cents for a package.
In a humorous exchange Miss Cayenne notes George Washington was very truthful and that trait may have kept him from authenticating the cherry-tree story. A French doctors project uses a danans four. Harrisburg officials appoint a police chi ropedist.
Mrs G O Lowery of Denison Texas credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her female trouble after a year of nerves chills dizziness and weight loss. She reports rapid improvement after three doses and says doctors could not help. She urges others to start treatment promptly.
The notice touts a Spring tonic claim from Dr Pierce for fatigue and low vitality. It prices Golden Medical Discovery as alcohol free and made from Golden Seal and blood root to purify blood and banish disease poisons, promising renewed health.
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