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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
5
Mrs Daniel Dutro a farmer's wife uses a simple lure trap system to capture rattlesnakes at Ten Mile Point. Her method, tried after local men failed, has already killed sixteen snakes ranging from a foot to four feet, with eight rattles on the largest.
A lengthy piece outlines Guy’s Milk Supply feeding Greater New York. It notes 150000 cows, over 1,000,000 quarts daily, and a $60,000,000 capital. The milk region runs from five states with two zones, inner and outer, and explains suburban expansion pushing dairy districts outward.
An old newspaper item notes health ads promoting Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with castor oil and Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It features a quip distinguishing fiddlers from violinists and advertises Reinhart's Pharmacy as a vendor. The piece frames indigestion and stomach disorders as curable with advertised tonics.
A Pennsylvania surgeon operated at a farmer's Norristown home on a stomach cancer patient. The diseased stomach was exchanged with a healthy sheep's stomach and the patient recovered, while the sheep thrived on goat's milk. The surgeon reported the exchange left the patient well and the sheep feeding normally, with the patient noting the surgeon's letter about the animal's robust appetite for grass.
The article recounts a Pennsylvania physician’s discovery that poke berries, dried and processed into sugar tablets, could aid weight loss. Reports claim a man shed forty pounds in three months and others lost 15 to 16 pounds, but notes frost-dried berries are needed to reduce toxins.
A patient with bleeding and protruding piles for twenty years reports relief after using De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. Two boxes cured him eighteen months ago and he has had no further trouble. Reinhardt's Pharmacy advertises the remedy. Also mentions a gold locomotive owned by W. A. Smith of Meridian New York and announces upcoming conventions with special fares via Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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