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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1907
Page
3
Miss Emma Shirley of Killbuck Ohio describes kidney disease causing headaches dizziness and weakness. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with a full recovery after twelve boxes totaling a six pound weight gain and a life saved. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A kind lady, approached by a hungry man, offers five dollars to avert desperate action. He reveals the dread outcome would be to resort to work, and expresses gratitude as he pockets the aid. The anecdote appears in Harper’s Weekly.
A man from Vermillion South Carolina recounts a decade of scaly eruptions on his body causing extreme itching and hair loss. After trying many remedies and a top doctor, he found salvation using Cuticura Ointment and Soap, completing a cure and hair restoration following fourteen years of pain and significant expense. August 18, 1906.
A short dialogue frames a street crime as the hold-up man lifts a large watch from a victim. The victim laments the watch’s 75 year family heritage and his wife’s wish to keep it, highlighting the tension between thief and victim.
Envy and jealousy prevail between men in the same kind of business and neither will give honest credit to the other. Drneniy fe 25c indicates a capsule product, Herman Lichty Mfg Co of Des Moines Iowa. ver in dulgence in food or drink appears in the ad context.
A letter from Philip Beisiegel of Cayley Alberta dated December 7 1906 describes rapid homestead success and wealth in the Canadian Northwest. He notes patenting a homestead bought for 10 dollars and valued at per acre 30, buying 320 acres for 7 per acre selling for 20 and clearing 4160 dollars profit. He owns 320 acres 15 horses 30 cattle 22 pigs 2 sheep 150 poultry plus new machinery and bought eight Calgary lots seven High River lots paid for. He estimates wealth at 13000 dollars from starting 2000 and reports crop yields and market sales.
This fragment blends tongue in cheek lines with old time ads for Allen's Foot-Ease and Lewis' cigars. It includes a Teething Syrup note for Mrs Winslow and quips about muse and flattery, finishing with a stray aphorism on flattering talk.
The piece argues that rest comes from shedding detail and routine, praising sea voyages as a tonic that frees the worker from daily constraints. It then pivots to laundry advice, promoting Defiance Starch for superior stiffness with lighter application.
Henry Thomas Spindler, recently deceased at Brentford aged 84, long served with the London Sun. He worked as proofreader for Charles Dickens and owned many relics of the novelist, including proofs bearing his edits.
A collage of lines promoting CASTORIA for infants, a blurred note about Hicks and Wicks marriage unhappy, and an ad pitch for Defiance Starch claiming extra content. Includes a brief jab about a woman and a moral line about perseverance and bravery.
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