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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
4
A vintage advertisement extols Kodol as a cure for indigestion linking digestion to health. It asserts dramatic benefits by digesting all stomach food, claims protection against serious diseases, and offers a money back guarantee via a druggist.
A shepherd boy sings in a flowery meadow and tells a king his happiness comes from a contented heart. The king agrees the boy's greatest treasure is inner contentment, richer than wealth, with food and clothing and beauty around him. He notes the heart's contentment as the key to lasting happiness.
A advertisement extols Bucklon's Arnica Salve as unmatched for cats burns sores and skin conditions and claims it supreme for eyes cold sores and piles. In a separate scene Mr Brown and family stand before an iron cage when Mrs Brown asks whom he would save first. John replies Me without hesitation.
An ad touts Mother Gray Australian Leaf as a safe herbal regulator for women with back pain urinary issues and related ailments priced at 50 cents with a sample offer. A humorous Tit-Bits vignette follows featuring Parvenu Hostess and stable boy James at a dinner party with ready wordplay about refilling a glass.
Weston praises walking as a remedy for gloom and suggests carrying bad thoughts away by stepping forward. He notes a rise in walking across communities and credits Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder for comfort in shoes, calling it a product of real merit.
A farewell song titled for the Closent School with lyrics in a Princeton style tune. It reflects on happy school days ending with parting smiles and sighs, memories of old friendships, and a blessing for enduring years and remembrance.
Practical moral guidance from Our Dumb Animals urging compassion for all living beings. It covers humane killing when necessary, avoidance of cruelty, care for pets, clean water for cats and dogs, and kindness to draft animals, urging empathy over harm.
In Newton a contested ownership battle over a bird dog unfolds. Joe Stewart bought the dog from A F Wood of Jugtown after it arrived last fall but a traveling man Taylor claims the dog is his, purchased from Smathers in Waynesville and taken to Halifax County. Stewart refuses to surrender without more proof. Dean's Ointment advertised for itching skin and healing cuts with no scar.
A Milwaukee Sentinel account describes a dim Russian apartment where a deadly "Tiger and Hunter" game unfolds. Masters and slaves, neurasthenia, and an emerging bourgeoise terror drive the morbid pastime as bombs and traitors haunt St. Petersburg, with champagne poison parties and fatal duels ending in murder.
Dr Buckley Wofford argues that knowledge without virtue cannot sustain good governance. He warns that educated bad men worsen with learning while wise behavior requires humility and restraint, though some self-esteem remains essential for action.
A report to Colchester Town Council notes a pig straying and calls for town clerk communication with the offender. The winds of poems and proverbs accompany advertisements for DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills, with claims of relief and free trials from E. C. DeWitt & Company.
A Detroit Free Press fragment questions whether an event was exclusive. A Louisville Courier Journal note adds that relatives attended and that summer plans seemed likely but shadowed by local scandal.
Bert R Lean of Cheney Washington recounts a perilous escape from a severe lung illness. He details costly visits to doctors in Spokane and California before finding relief with Dr Kings New Discovery. The medicine is advertised as a cure for lung trouble bronchitis coughs and colds asthma croup and whooping cough with prices and a trial bottle offered.
A testimonial from Mrs C C Boyette of Scotland Neck North Carolina praises Dean's Kidney Pills for curing back pain and kidney trouble. She describes severe backache, loins pain, and rheumatic symptoms, credits relief to the pills, and urges others to use the product sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A collage of dated verse and advertisements from a historical paper fragment. It cites a Bangs poem in Munsey's Magazine, Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for bowels, a hotel clerk anecdote, Burdock Blood Bitters for liver and digestion, a social observation about gossip, and DeWitt's Little Early Risers liver pills sold by E. T. Whitehead Company.
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