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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1911
Page
7
The page blends jokes and ads with snatches of advice and slogans. It references humor about employment references, dental woes, laxatives, denture oils, bitters, a child soother, a tea for health, and the line from Shakespeare. It reads like a collage of era advertisements and quips.
The McCall reciprocity bill to implement a Canadian agreement passed the house 197 to 120 to begin immediate consideration. Democrats largely backed the move while Republicans mostly opposed displacing the regular calendar. McCall will manage the debate with Dalzell handling the opposition.
Reports arrive of a massacre of an entire insurrecto family in Pueblo with a prominent merchant Salano alleged treasurer. Troops found the hiding family after a secret cellar and shot them. Gold and securities valued at 1.5 million were seized. Federals and insurrectos clash near Mulata. federal losses listed at 40 killed and wounded, insurrecto losses at one killed and wounded over two days.
Hardy H. Whitlock, indicted for embezzling county funds, surrendered to Sheriff Shepard in Danville and posted bond. He denied receiving a subpoena and declined to discuss vote buying, saying details would emerge at trial or before the grand jury. Whitlock later left for Detroit amid rumors he was urged to flee before a grand jury subpoena. Sheriff’s office pressed bench warrants as 76 more indictments for vote selling were prepared by the jury.
An old time advertisement narrates pain to pleasure through Resinol for a baby rash resembling eczema, noting a neighbor's quick recovery in two days and grateful thanks from a Boulder mother. A dentist Geo. B. Ames claims a labor saving device and jokes about marrying Miss Bullion the heiress.
An OCR fragment lists a mix of patent medicine ads and quotes. It mentions Pettit's Eye Salve from Howard Bros Buffalo NY, Bromine products, Garfield Tea for liver and bowels, and a Lewis' Single Binder cigar. It also contains miscellaneous maxims and a church fair oyster pearl remark.
A long list of names and addresses from various states appears in an advertisement claiming many women benefited from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The piece emphasizes real unnamed witnesses and asserts the medicine’s reliability and truth of claims, without offering compensation to those named.
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