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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1911
Page
7
A promotion pledges a free trial package of Munyon's Paw Paw Pills to any applicant who writes to Professor Munyon at 53d and Jefferson Streets Philadelphia. The letter promises confidential medical advice and a diagnosis as though a personal interview.
Advertised as a universal germicide powder for dissolving in water. Claims include teeth cleaning tartar removal breath purification and mouth disinfection. Also targets body odors eye relief sore throat wounds and sore throat with prices of 25 and 50 cents per box from The Paxton Toilet Co Boston Mass with free samples.
The page reports multiple Iowa items including Henry Wilkes’s suicide near Elkador, a postponed Iowa post office convention in Dubuque, W S Kenyon and William J Bryan at the Iowa City Chautauqua, and the Slater Mercantile incorporation. Also notes burials, a Chicago orphanage fire, drownings in Centerville and Howard Halden, storm damage in Creston, streetcar strikes in Ft. Dodge, open shop efforts in Mason City, gas explosions injuring John Kemp and Francis Dupree, a Des Moines baby burn tragedy, a Des Moines restaurant fire, a Spirit Lake wedding delay, Spirit Lake street improvements, a libel trial in Dubuque, dental society elections, a Paton post office robbery and shootings, Perry mayoral Sunday closures, and a Paton arrest."
A veteran 73 year old man from Little Rock Arkansas reports relief from severe lumbago after using Dr Kilmer Swamp Root. He credits the remedy with curing two liver pains and urges others to request a sample bottle and booklet from Kilmer Co Binghamton New York, with sales at drug stores.
Oysters age by annual growth lines and seldom reach full size before years seven to ten. they may live to twenty. The text notes white goods look best when newly laundered, with starching as the key to stiffness without thickening, praising Defiance Starch for improved results.
A fragment notes Freddy Fickle decided to marry and settle down with a specific girl, but the identity remains unclear and the statement is challenged by others.
An old advertisement offers Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething relief. It claims to soften gums reduce inflammation ease pain cure wind colic and is priced at 25 cents per bottle.
St Paul city prosecutor John Burns argued before Judge Finehout that Mike Chicket tore a picket from Mrs. Goesik’s fence and she felt offended. The judge retorted that no lady is charged with taking a fence and this was no place for poetry.
A husband plans to buy silk after work but is teased by his wife about finding a “sweet little blonde” at a shop. She ultimately forgives him, insisting he rest after a long day and not bother shopping.
Advertisement for Art Post Card Club offers 2¢ stamp for five samples of Gold Embossed Birthday Flower and Motto Post Cards. Includes address 731 Jackson St Topeka Kansas.
A collection of old proverbs on parenting money and brains, with a dental- or patent-medicine style pitch for Wilsons Wizard Oil. Humorous quips about husbands paying for wives hats and a wink at aging advice.
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