Child’s Horrific Skin Ailment Baffles Doctors
A child suffers a severe skin condition with massive sores covering the face and body. Ears droop and the face becomes increasingly clear as the illness worsens, despite treatment from three doctors.
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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1906
Page
2
A child suffers a severe skin condition with massive sores covering the face and body. Ears droop and the face becomes increasingly clear as the illness worsens, despite treatment from three doctors.
A Akron Ohio mother recounts a Cure by Cuticura Soap and Ointment for her child with widespread skin humors. After trying doctors with no relief, the baby improved within days and the sores healed, with the letter praising low cost and effectiveness. The ad promotes Complete External and Internal Treatment for skin conditions and offers free information from Potter Drug & Chem.
The advertisement promotes the Jewel Smokeless Generator Gasolene Stove as a solution to trouble and confusion. It highlights model 78-98 a step stove with a step burner eighteen inches from the floor for wash day convenience. The wash boiler or oven may be used on the step freeing the stove top for other tasks.
Davenport news notes a case of animal cruelty filed by Humane Officer George Ellman against Leedon Hart, a 2320 Grand avenue resident, for starved and neglected horse death. Ellman describes four days without feed or water, the horse dying in suffering before humane intervention. Earlier Hart’s horse fate prompted a prior killing by the officer.
In Rock Island County Court, Judge Parmenter presides over probate matters. Claims by Mary Goekent and Dr. G Wiggins are allowed in specified classes with monetary amounts. Appointments include guardians for minors and conservators, with proofs of service, notices, and hearings. Bonds set at 2500 and 2400 dollars, with orders of sale and conservatorship actions finalized.
D A Leach of this city and J D Blume of Galesburg embarked from the foot of Fifteenth street in the Kath eryne B on a three day river trip after shipping the launch from Lake Rice the C B and Q lake in Galesburg on a flat car They planned two days upstream and one down stream.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul and Rock Island lines advertise round trip tickets to Chicago Milwaukee and Kansas City for eight dollars with varying return limits. Excelsior Springs Missouri promotes a 32 page illustrated book on its waters and hotels, available for four cents postage. Through service via the St Paul system invites travel to Colorado for the summer with low rates and efficient through trains.
A London Mail note hints at a Newark N J Eastern league shortstop named Wagner drawing major league interest and possible comparison to a Pittsburgh Nationals star. The item also recalls a youth mispronunciation anecdote about a four year old boy sleeping in a top berth and asserting he is in the top drawer.
The remark plays on marriages and machines with Hewitt asking how a man married a typewriter and Jewett replying he found a good wife and dismissed a poor stenographer in a witty quip from the New York Press.
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