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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1898
Page
7
Dr Hu King Eng and Misa Wang selected as Chinese delegates to the 1898 Women's Congress in London. Eng, nicknamed the Miracle Lady for her healing skills, earned a doctor of medicine from the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia.
An old patent medicine advertisement warns against mercury containing remedies for catarrh and urges use of Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo. Includes testimonials offer, soda for headache, and a Cascarets promotion with money back guarantee. References to the duke of Westminster and general product claims.
A vintage ad claims a cold cure in one day using Tule Luxative Rome Quinine Wablets with a refund offer if ineffective. It also advertises Smoke Sledge Cigarettes at 20 for 5 cents and notes the queen's household totals nearly 1,000 persons while mentioning ancient birthday customs.
At the Niog Oscar jubilee in Sweden and Norway 150 young women fire brigade members from Amsterdam parade in full uniform under King Oscar's windows. Led by a married male commander they display vigilance, quickness, and bravery, rivalling male firefighters and eliciting strong enthusiasm.
Reports of coastal storms and maritime disasters flood east coast coverage. A satirical aside promotes Trostetter's Stomach Bitters for seasickness and related ailments. In Atlanta city court, Judge Reid bans peanut nibbling by attorneys, saying it grates on nerves.
An 19th century ad fragment touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder to keep feet dry warm and cure chilblains with calls to ask at druggists and shoe stores. It mentions a sample offer sent to LeRoy New York and includes other era appeals and odd bits about corn bread and a Fiji island anecdote.
A New Scotland mother known as Stanford Eveleth praises Dr. J. C. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for relief from croup and throat lung troubles in her family. Tex. mother C J Wooldridge recounts dosing a choking child, with later breathing and sleep returning to normal after treatment. The ad notes half-size bottles at 50 cents and offers a free curehook from J C Ayer Co. Lowell Mass.
Arthur Kimber the sole survivor describes the Zenobia wreck off Cape Moreton. Five men died after hours of exposure when the centerboard failed and a squall capsized the boat. Kimber and two others clung to the keel, two died at night, and Kimber, severely sunburned, reached a settler’s house after drifting to Langura Bay.
A Tunisian merchant naturalist enclosed a field with a wall and wire netting to keep egrets. By 1896 his heronry held about 400 birds, with eggs laid twice yearly in April and June and nestlings fed by the mother. Plumes are harvested May and September, producing 35 francs per bird annually.
A Boston girl sues a New Yorker for $50,000 claiming breach of promise. The defendant contends the engagement was broken by the girl's mother who insisted on kissing him goodbye when he left the house, a defense he asserts as pivotal to the case.
A collection of humorous schoolroom exchanges and innocent mishearings. Johnnie names education as willow branch, a niece offers to carry bat and stumps, a child mishears rain as wainin popcorn, and a pupil reinterprets Esau as the author of fables who sold a copyright for a bottle of potash.
A 43 year old woman suffered four years with stomach trouble causing heart irregularity and choking spells. After taking Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People digestion improved, appetite returned, choking ceased, weight rose, and blood improved. A second note tells of a Scot’s visit home where in ninety-two Scottish visits eighty-seven offered liquor.
In New Seventlown a Pennsylvania inventor unveils a hat pin with a small flexible extension to keep it secured in a woman’s hair or hat. A simple fruit gatherer patent features a canvas apron attached to a tree and four barrels to collect fruit as it shakes onto the apron and into the barrels. Patent information is available from Sues & Co., Lee Building, Omaha, Neb. Tid-Bits notes a joke about dressmakers as a woman’s best friend. Prussian blue paint is produced from hoof ash.
An open letter asserts exclusive rights to the term Castoria and Pitcher's Castoria by Samuel Pitcher M D and The Centaur Company with March 1897 signature. The Sun notes a grain beverage Grain-O touted as coffee substitute in grocery stores with 15 and 25 cent prices.
A vintage tobacco cessation ad touts No-To-Bac as a wonder-worker that makes weak men strong. It promises easy quitting forever with a cure guaranteed and offers a free booklet and tumble from Sterling Drug Co. in Chicago or New York.
The excerpt notes Philadelphia as the largest town in 1774 colonial America. It mentions Town Farms for silo on crop payment and a payment balance yearly. It also asserts only 20 percent of murders yearly in America and Europe are ever solved.
The United States circuit court for the southern district of New York granted injunction and accounting in Hostetter Company v Sommers and Joseph. Judge Townsend ruled in part that the complainant is entitled to protection against unfair and dishonorable methods to infringe its trade mark and that equity may restrain such acts to shield the original owner's rights and public goodwill.
Jonas Stadling, a Stockholm journalist, forwards to the January Century a facsimile of an undoubted message from Andree sent by a carrier pigeon. Stadling chartered pigeons at Danes Island where Andree awaited a favorable wind and later wrote about Andree's Plight Into the Unknown.
Still there 15 money in it. Carl Vollen sold 350 dollars of Salzer’s cabbage. Labor seed rent and all did not cost him 350, profit 300. Potatoes 1.50 per barrel. Salzer seeds earliest in the world. Catalogue offers 10 packages seed and vegetables free. Also notes Yale University total students 2,500 and a Turkish carrier pigeon service in A D 567.
Do You Dance To-Night Shake into your Shoes Allen's Fect- Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy Cures Corns Bunions Chilblains and Sweating Feet At all Druggists and Shoe Stores 25c Sample sent FREE Ad dress Allen Olmsted LeRoy N Y Tough meat is made tender by lying a few minutes in vinegar and water.
Purported ad promotes Cascinots beauty aid claiming to cleanse blood and remove pimples blotches and blemishes. It urges readers to begin today and visit Al druggists for a ten cent supply with guaranteed satisfaction.
A health note advises combining salt with nuts to improve digestion. The recommendation emphasizes small portions and suggests nuts provide minerals that support salt use in meals.
A fragmented column notes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with claims of soothing and healing effects. It also promotes Star Tobacco as the world’s leading brand and references historic breach loading cannon dating to 1388.
A 30 day campaign by Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co promotes 5 Drops against rheumatism neuralgia catarrh influenza and related ailments. A testimonial from WM Wells of Buena Vista Oregon praises the remedy and a 25 cent sample bottle program is announced along with $1 large bottles and $2 50 for 30 days. The note ends with a fact about the California woodpecker carrying an acorn long distances.
An old advertisement claims Asticma can be cured quickly by Dr Taft s Asthiualone. It invites readers to write for a sample bottle and promises free shipping upon providing name and address. Also mentions rusting irons treatment with beeswax and lard and Cascareta remedies for constipation.
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