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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1901
Page
5
Local notes show residents like George Lynd accepting ads and orders, while Ray Parmeter family moves behind the restaurant. Fanners plant corn, a new Epworth League event looms, and Misses Lynch and Caer are mentioned. The town grows with new bank plans and a wedding at the bride’s parents’ home.【Note: OCR has many garbled names. all strong entities captured as read.】
A stream of patent remedy pitches and medical claims dominates the page. Advertisers tout Kool and Kadol dyspepsia cures, DeWitt's products, and Johnson-like nostrums. Mentions of H B Cole and local druggists frame the medicine ads amid scattered notices and travel promotions.
A stream of older advertisements and notices recounts medical claims for remedies such as Dr Kings New Discovery and Heilman products, infant cough cures, and tonics. It includes testimonials alleging weight gain, quick cures for croup and piles, and booklets about travel routes. It mentions the Cedar Rapids Northern Railway and promotional material for exhibits and conventions.
A mail boat from Calis to Dover featured a rough ride and a dramatic scene as a young woman swayed from seasickness. A stranger offered a lozenge remedy that calmed her, prompting passenger astonishment at the cure and a sales rush for the lozenges, with boxes later found to contain candies bound for Dover.
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