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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1909
Page
7
Aimed at women with sex related ailments the ad claims widespread health improvements from Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It cites 30 years of letters, asserts truthful testimonials with permission, and invites readers to verify by contacting a recent writer.
A collection of household maxims and rural wisdom. The speaker urges discussing plans with a wife, notes sound advice, warns against risky mule handling, and offers practical tips on weather, storage, and neighborly help. The pieces mention sharing good ideas, keeping pets warm, aprons with pockets, securing straw and clover stacks, and a neighbor losing several sheep in separate incidents.
An old Boston figure, Hannah Adams, is recalled as America’s first woman to pursue letters as a profession and an early reader at the Athenium. The piece notes her famed memory lapses, stagecoach anecdote, and later gratitude from friends, concluding with a quip about her guiding mantra great trunk little trunk bandbox and bundle.
The Boston Globe notes that top speakers do not always win the presidency. Webster, Clay, Douglas and Blaine drew crowds for charm and persuasion, while Greeley proved effective despite weak oratorical showmanship. Tilden and Grant show speech skill growing with time and effort.
A historic anecdote shows Browning excited by J S Mill agreeing to review his early volume of poems in the Westminster Review then learning a rival notice had already appeared in the same journal. The episode ends with a scathing Westminster Review assessment described as balderdash.
A Somerville Journal comic exchanges reveal a sharp pun about a boy’s habits. Mrs Stage Indeed voices pride in her son, while Miss Wintergreen calls him uninteresting, prompting a witty zinger.
Charles T. Bauer of Volant Pennsylvania testifies that eczema on hands arms and feet lasted twelve years but cleared after using Cutura Remedies from Potter Drug and Chem. Corp. Boston with no further trouble since. The ad asserts testimonials and warns patience in remedies.
The advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents a bottle with a $100 reward for cures Hall's is advertised as a blood and mucous system remedy. It includes endorsements from Watovic Kimsen and Marvin and notes testimonials and distribution through druggists. Several unrelated quips appear about satire, agriculture and inventions.
A woman credits coffee for a weak stomach and poor digestion from childhood, then says switching to Postum cured her headaches and improved her skin. She urges following elders' examples with beverages and notes a better life after using Postum.
A Washington, D. C. resident identifies Peruna Drug Co. of Columbus Ohio as an unmatched tonic and cure for coughs colds and catarrh. The letter authorizes use of his photo and testimonial in any publication. Signed by Joseph H Chase, 804 Tenth St.
Letters praise Peruna as a cure for catarrh and grippe with testimonials from Mr. C. Happy in Hardin Ray Co and L Clifford Figg of Richmond. The piece also promotes Peruna tablets and a free booklet, followed by a string of maxims on life, motion, slander, and certainty.
F A Rippy of Gallatta Tenn reports fifteen years of gravel attacks with back pain and blood in urine. After suffering for nine years he began Dean's Kidney Pills and credits rapid improvement after four boxes, claiming full cure with no relapse. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY at 50 cents a box.
Those who dance must pay the fiddler as a moral reminder that every man must reap his own wild oats harvest and face consequences for his actions.
The Peranna Almanac offers astronomical content and astrology with careful notes on mental characteristics of herbs, plus a list of lucky and unlucky days free to those who request it from The Peruna Co. Columbus Ohio. A reader remarks on women and secrecy in a brief aside.
A 28 ton market for false hair emerged in Chicago last year as demand rose nationwide. Prices doubled and some girls sold hair to avoid starvation, with many traveling from the country to seek work and support families while wealthier heads preserved their looks.
A sailor reflects on Easter spent in diverse locales. He recalls Easter Island with palms and locals, Easter Sunday in the New Hebrides, two Easter villages in Essex, and Easter Canyon in Arizona where immigrants died of starvation leaving a chalk diary of the rocks.
Eight guests at a Bernardsville area hotel tried fried rattlesnake as the main dish. The reptile, killed near Lake Owassa by Frank B. Allen, was reportedly sweet and palatable. The eight rattles had eight rattles. the skin will be tanned.
A Bohemian narrator recalls being served for friends at a cheap all night restaurant while a tough waiter ignores his order. In about ten minutes others are served but he receives nothing prompting a tense exchange. The waiter warns him to stay seated as the confrontation escalates.
During a Sophocles tragedy at Theater Royal Dublin the gallery demanded to bring out the author. The manager explained Sophocles had been dead for millennia and could not appear. A gallery reply urged them to remove the mummy instead.
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