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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1913
Page
2
Davenport reports only five cases of contagion in July with three diphtheria one scarlet fever and one smallpox a drop of seven from the previous year. City work includes 612 loads of warbage hauled, a monthly record.
Goodwater Missouri resident Mrs Riley Laramore says dyspepsia and severe heartburn vanished after using Thedford's Black-Draught in small nightly doses. She reports eating without distress and no return of symptoms after two small packages. She urges others to try the remedy to cleanse the system aid digestion and bowels.
A Essen report notes a city council appropriation of 5000 dollars for a tenth grain of radium for a municipal hospital cancer treatment project, with private subscribers adding another 5000 for a second tenth grain. Berlin reports Dr Max Moszkowski’s beriberi diet experiments in Guinea show beri-beri may stem from foods, not infection, as he subjects himself to a hulled rice diet and rice hull extract injections with successful recovery and pigeons and hens also cured.
The arrival of Mrs John Astor sparks talk she will shape a new social campaign to replace the three grandees Mrs Stuyvesant Fish Mrs Ogden Mills and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt as Gotham hosts. Inner circles fear a social war opening at Newport with Newport set to host the first skirmish.
East Fifth Street disorderly house fined $25 and costs by Magistrate Roddewig. Several men, including Alex White and F A Bird, fined for related charges. Thirteen men arrested in a barn on East Second Street for alleged disorderly house activity. Obituary notes William Timothy 42 of Davenport. Hartwig Schmuck of Dubuque dies. funeral in Davenport. Dysentery remedy highlighted. German swindle exposed in Berlin subway scam.
A nervous high strung woman credits diet and Postum with reversing years of dyspepsia and heart palpitations. She describes dramatic weight gain and renewed vitality after trying Grape-Nuts or Postum, urging readers to seek The Road to Wellville for explanation.
An old advertisement touts Gets-It for corns promising quick, painless relief. It claims two seconds to apply and removal of corns without harming surrounding skin. Warns against plasters and salves causing flesh damage or infection. Product marketed at 25 cents per bottle with receipt. Lawrence a mr 7.
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