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Newspaper
Salem Times Register
Location
Salem, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1903
Page
4
A collection of light anecdotes from a family setting. Joke of sharing popcorn and fair mischief with a chair and grocery paper. A birthday wedding invitation response and a girl’s pretend friend Eliot reveal curious child logic and playful misunderstandings.
The passage cites Dr Hughes Bennett on fat as a key consumption factor. It argues fats must be affordable for the poor and digestible for the rich, praising Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil as easy to take, pleasant, blood-purifying, and fat forming.
The Virginia Commission of The Louisiana Exposition designates Froehling & Robertson of Richmond to collect Virginia minerals and prepare a wealth description for St Louis. They seek mine owners and mineral land holders to supply details on deposits, developments, analyses, and shipping guidance, with emphasis on building stones and clay deposits.
Norfolk and Western mails routes offer excursions to Atlantic City Shenandoah Valley resorts and Virginia Beach points. Tickets on sale from principal points until September 30 with limits through October 31 1903. W B Beyil general passenger agent.
Residents and visitors arrive in Salem from West Virginia Virginia and Massachusetts. Mary Wright, 46, a Bethel A. M. E. Church member and widow, dies after two months of illness. Funeral held Sunday at the A. M. E. Church led by Rev. L. T. Watson with several assisting pastors.
In 1869 Madison M. Tyler from Brooklyn leased a store near Huntersville, left a sealed package with Hugh McAuley, repaid a loan, and vanished. The parcel, now with Miss Black, remains unopened after more than 30 years, with its contents and owner unknown. The family vows to keep it intact until the owner returns or sends word.
An old advertisement promotes Boacklea’s Arnica Salve as a preventive for burns sores ulcers and boils with claims of preventing death. It also hawks Burdock Blood Bitters promising clear thinking and vigor to prepare a man for life, priced at 25 cents at W T Younger's Drug Store.
An advert claims a South American Marine Tonic cures stomach weakness and offers relief from the first dose. It promises universal effectiveness, safety, and a certain cure for long suffering patients, sold by B. Dillard, Salem, VA.
Thousands seek relief from consumption with Scott's emulsion of cod liver oil. The ad urges lifestyle shifts to support healing, such as moving from damp close rooms to sunny dry spaces, and from city to country. It claims a healed wound from a lunge parallels easier life choices.
An advertisement claims a New Great South American Kidney remedy instantly relieves bladder and kidney pain in men and women. It asserts rapid relief from retention and back pain and promotes W. B. Dillard, a Balom Virginia druggist, as the contact for purchase.
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