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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1897
Page
7
A New York Tribune view notes druggists often give medical advice and minor treatments beyond pharmacists duties. It recounts a Broadway shop where customers paid for remedies and the druggist provided antiseptic, tonics, and small services without formal fees.
A French businesswoman, Mme Alexandre, supplies cultured white mice to Paris physicians including Rich et Chantemesse and Pasteur Institute. She maintains about 1,000 mice, fed on bread and milk, with clients in Paris London and Geneva. demand outpaces supply as kits multiply quickly.
E. J. White of Minnesota predicts a harsh winter citing unusually thick deer coats and muskrats building high, thick-walled houses. He asserts these signs have never failed in his extensive experience.
A historical note states that colored people in the United States sustain seven colleges, seven teen academies and fifty high schools, reflecting educational infrastructure within the community.
The Burlington Route advertises weekly California excursion trains leaving Omaha at 4:35 p m Lincoln 0:10 p m Hastings 8:50 p m every Thursday. Cars run through to San Francisco and Los Angeles via Denver and Salt Lake City with modern sleepers and through service. Berths five dollars second class tickets honored. Folder and contact details provided.
An old advertisement promotes No-To-BaO as a wonder-worker to quit tobacco easily and forever. It claims to make weak men strong and promises guaranteed cures with a free booklet, listing Sterling Remedy Co in Chicago or New York as sources. It also notes insults toward eloquence from rascal talk.
An American returning from Alaska claims a cure for Klondike gold fever. He advises selecting a winter morning below zero, digging a sixteen foot shaft, returning home to eat buffalo robe, sleep in the woodshed, and repeat as needed.
Grocers promote Grain-O as a coffee substitute made from pure grains with a rich brown look like mocha or java. Consumers of all ages are urged to try it, priced at 15 and 25 cents per package, and sold widely.
Ulysses S. Grant is cited as a grain weigher in Kansas City while a tobacco ad promotes smoke Sledge cigarettes at 20 for a few cents.
An old newspaper ad touts No-To-Ibave as guaranteed tobacco habit care for 50 cents. It claims to make weak men strong and improve blood purity, urging readers to visit all druggists. The tone suggests a period sales pitch targeting consumers with a shaving pun about priceless value.
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