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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
7
Readers are urged to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts with their private health concerns. Her decades of correspondence with sick women are touted as offering insight that may help cases.
Mrs Norman Rh Barnett of Allen town Pa cites relief from organic derangement and female weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad proclaims the remedy as standard for female ills for thirty years and lists conditions it claims to cure.
An advertisement offers easy profits for men and women to sell Family Health Tablets Liniment and Salve with no experience required. It promises exclusive territory Vesena Company 1170 15th St Washington DC and notes various dubious claims and quotes typical of early 20th century penny papers.
The passage outlines methods to present turnips with a creamy egg sauce and to prepare celery stalks and radishes in elegant, softened forms. It suggests heating stock with bread crumbs, folding in cream and egg yolk, and frying thick batters, then finishing radish dishes with a milk thickened sauce.
The article outlines three methods for a bare carpet: substitute a new one, lay a square over the worn area, or adjust widths to push wear to hidden corners. It also gives advice on extending stair carpet life by using an extra half yard, shifting tread position as it wears.
A collection of practical tips includes dissolving sugar of lead in rainwater to revive faded fabrics, tenderizing meats with vinegar in boiling water, cleaning decanters with salt and vinegar, restoring scorched granite ware with washing soda, and repurposing an old broom for kitchen floor scrubbing with hot suds.
A historic recipe combines an egg salt mustard flour sugar vinegar and water stirred until thick, cooled with cream, then diluted with milk. It adds gooseberries raisins oranges ground and cooked slowly, sealed with wax.
Five level teaspoons butter and salt paprika and lemon juice are combined. The butter is creamed then salt and paprika are added before gradually folding in lemon juice.
A 1903 testimonial from Mrs. James M. Long of Staunton Virginia claims Doan’s Kidney Pills cured her backache and urinary troubles. In 1907, four and a half years later, she stated she had no kidney trouble since and repeated the testimony. Pills sold 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Mrs. David Brown of Locke Arkansas suffered eczema for over two years with ankle sores and terrible itching. After two doctors offered little relief she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills three times and slept through the night. Her ankles healed quickly and no relapse in a year.
A 1906 era dialogue cites Comanche Pete answering unrest among Indians with fleas. The text abruptly shifts to an agricultural pitch promoting Salzer seed varieties, claiming Emperor William Oats yield gains and Silver King Barley profits, plus offers for seed catalogs and bonus samples upon mailing, with prices and incentives.
The home-grown philosopher notes that the greater sum of a woman's happiness rests in trifles. The philosopher’s wife retorts that the average woman may rely on a trifling man for domestic happiness.
Frank J Cheney swears as senior partner of F J Carney & Co Toledo that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for each case of catarrrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason confirms date December 6, 1886. Advertising copy notes internal use, claims blood and mucous system action, and lists sales by druggists at 75 cents with Italia Family Pills for constipation.
A young man seeks marriage with a banker’s daughter and receives a grim reply in business terms. The banker informs him he must file a notice and return in sixty days, framing the courtship in financial procedure.
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