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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1909
Page
7
A jumbled page quotes figures like Major and Colonel while jokes and ads mingle. It includes a Minne apolis furrier pitch, a taxidermy line, and a ge neral commentary on public life. Notable products include Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and Dr Pierce’s Pellets.
Louisville and Adrian readers report relief from irregularities dizziness and nervousness without surgery after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Georgia tester claimed cure without operation. Thirty years of testimony highlights the remedy's claimed success for feminine ailments.
Ad claims constipation harms brain action and offers Cascarets to relieve and cure. Promotes 916 Cascarets ten cents per box for a week’s treatment. Claims best selling product with million boxes a month sold in drugstores.
An old promotional piece touts Quaker Oats as the ideal affordable food for laborers and families, claiming superior nourishment with low cost. It cites Yale professor Fisher's 1908 findings and notes large family packages including or excluding china dishes.
The notice claims Perry Davis Painkiller is the only effective remedy for rheumatism lumbago stiffness neuralgia or colds and mentions packaging in 850 and 600 bottle dice. It also notes tuberculosis rates in Bengal prisons with about two prisoners per hundred.
Howard Entwistle aged 94 of Des Moines died after a long decline six weeks after his wife’s death. He rode on the trial trip of Stephenson’s Rocket with George Stephenson and later worked as fireman on early steam locomotives. He arrived in Des Moines in 1886 and witnessed the locomotive evolve from Rocket to modern engines. Funeral at Calvary Baptist Church at 3 pm with Odd Fellows at the grave.
Des Moines officials resumed street car franchise talks as McKinley interests submitted their draft ordinance and City Solicitor Brennan presented the council’s draft. Negotiations center on terms with a potential agreement seen as near but still uncertain.
Ottumwa Iowa November 2 The GC A Hoover Distilling Company of Oskaloosa won a verdict of eighty thousand dollars on fifteen insurance policies covering distilled product destroyed by fire. The company lost 2730 barrels of whiskey valued at two dollars a gallon. defense claimed thirty seven thousand dollars. A Wapello man known as Father Time perished in a midnight barn fire, suspected to be caused by a lamp overturning igniting hay. In Kansas City Missouri a girl Miss Mary Maley died from burns after a jack o lantern overturned at a Halloween event at Loretta academy.
Open hunting season for big game runs October 16 to November 15 in Temagami with moose plentiful. Red deer habitat lies south of Temagami in Muskoka Lakes Lake of Bays Maganetawan River Lake Nipissing and Kawartha Lakes areas. Also promotes a guidebook from Grand Trunk Railway on hunting territories with laws and maps. Also includes a dubious veterinary tip advising gin for a child's sneezing fits and a note to keep it from the father.
An old advertisement touts Wall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy, claiming to cure catarrh by acting on blood and mucous membranes. It offers $100 to any case it cannot cure and invites readers to request testimonials. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and includes a casual joke excerpt.
A collage of old advertisement snippets mentions Castoria for children, prison reform quips, a 10 cent device for telephone hygiene, quotes about aging and life preservers, Hamlin’s Wizard pain remedy, Jeremy Taylor, Allen’s Long Balsam, and Russ Blue laundry aid. The text preserves oddball commercial blurbs and literary asides from a historical page.
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