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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1900
Page
3
A jumble of advertising lines and moral aphorisms covers Magnetic Starch benefits and household tips. It also includes stray remarks on gold mining totals, an old testimonial for Piso's Cure, and various maxims about character and humility.
South Omaha notes March 5 show cattle demand rising with higher prices though cows and heifers softened. Hogs sold lower than Saturday averages, with good loads around 4.70. Sheep and lambs moved upward, with yearlings and ewes offered at firm to high levels. Chicago market mirrored mixed trends across cattle hogs and sheep, while Kansas City priced steady to lower on cattle and steady on hogs. Projections cite strong demand and varied regional prices for cattle, hogs, and lambs.
Senator Pettigrew obtained adoption of a resolution asking the president to report the number and operators of Manila saloons since U S occupation, patronage, liquors sold and quantities, prior American or English style saloons, and whether the president can suppress saloons and bar liquor to soldiers in Manila.
Chicago health officials press for a national conference in April to discuss preventing bubonic plague reaching the city. Dr Reynolds urges Washington to act as dead soldiers’ bodies returned from overseas raise risk. Wyman approves the idea and will consider it.
A rotted judge credited Peruna with curing nine years of catarrh after all doctors failed. The ad claims catarrh is universal and Peruna is the sole safeguard, asserting colds lead to catarrh. It promotes Dr Hartman of Columbus Ohio offering a free booklet Winter Catarrh with seven lectures on treatment at the Hartman Sanitarium.
Ram's Flora highlights Robert Ingersoll as a agnostic son of a Congregational minister and Dwight L. Moody as the Wellington of the evangelic army. The page also runs sensational ads for Magnetic Starch and nerve restorer tonics promising cures and trial bottles.
An 19th century advertisement page warns against mercury containing eye remedies and touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from I J Cheney Co Toledo as mercury free and effective when taken internally. It promotes other products, cures for teething, pain relief, cold remedies, and various testimonials with price points and free samples. The page also quotes public figures and mentions London deaths and a quip about ambition.
A playful metaphor about a loose screw in the engine hints at the need for careful, skillful maintenance. It then promotes Cascarets as a preferred laxative, claiming universal benefits and urging readers to buy, request a booklet, or mail for samples from the Sterling Remedy Co. The note ends by touting Magnetic Starch as a longer lasting alternative.
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