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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1900
Page
2
A garbled dispatch reports political enforcement talks and public sentiment, noting attitudes on speech and expulsion policies plus a long satire on trust power. It includes a Hartford Indiana industrial plant's closure impact on 200 workers and their families due to a trust decision.
Street chatter notes Hartford investors face loss as the plant’s collapse ends jobs and prosperity. Citizens warn about the $25,140 contributed by locals and fear court intervention as the trust’s fate endangers livelihoods and the broader economy.
An advertisement extols Kilneoids as superior kidney preparations with stated cures for kidney weakness and bedwetting in children, including testimonials from Mrs. Harriet Atkinson of Louisville and three of her heirs. It promotes Murrow & Co chemists’ Mor row’s Kilneoids, priced 60 cents a jar, plus a booklet from Rock Island. The piece also records a regular city council meeting with bids and petitions, and concludes with local patent medicine ads for King’s New Life Pills and Dean’s Ointment from druggists.
Eminent physicians from the British Medical Institute establish a permanent New York City branch at 102 Second Avenue. From now until February 15 and for three months, all consultations examinations minor surgeries are free for invalids. No charges will be made, and the institute guarantees cures or frank advice if incurable.
Hundreds of hopeless cases have been helped by German English specialists who claim long hours devoted to diagnosis and cure. Offices in Davenport advertise the Kerlin system for deafness, tinnitus, nasal catarrh, throat and stomach diseases with modern appliances and renowned agents.
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