Cash prize challenge and rheumatic pain remedy ad
A 1900 notice offers 1090 dollars in cash prizes for solving four letter groups into four common food names used by housekeepers. The draw date is April 30, 1900, with pro rata division if multiple winners. Also offers free flower seed packets and a six month trial subscription to Even the Hours. The second item promotes Chamberlain's Pain Balm as quick rheumatism relief with a testimonial from D N Sinks of Troy Ohio and a local seller Dr Charles Rager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bat
Uorrii
Foxreer
Chamberlain
D. N. Sinks
Troy
Ohio
Messrs
George F. Parsons
Charles Rager
The Curse of the Boers and the Cape Baboon
A satirical piece describes the baboon as a curse on the Cape Colony. It extols the animal’s doglike jaws and four hands, recounting depredations on goats, sheep, and dogs, and its terrorizing of ostriches and birds near fences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Colony
Jome
Adonis
Cirrus Clouds Move at High Winter Speeds
An old weather note explains cirrus clouds as high white filaments traveling at speeds over 100 miles per hour in winter and about a mile per minute in summer. It describes their appearance, ascent with rising temperatures, and the idea of clouds as white air ships navigating the sky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Tim
Nickel Plate excursion tickets offered to students for Easter break
The Nickel Plate Road will sell excursion tickets to students at one and one third fare for the round trip. Tickets available the day before school closes, the closing day, and the day after, with return during vacation. Inquire of agents. Patronize merchants who advertise in the Recrop. they are reliable.
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Mrs. Myars
South Side West Main Street
Silver Lake
J. W. Rine
Market St
Newark
N. J
Cape Ca'ons
Eldredge Hanoi
Belvidere, Ill
Petronant
J. C. Collin
Adam Stout
J.C. Cavender
E. Stout
Adam Stout & Co
Silver Lake, Ind
Diam
Silver Lake, Indiana
Indiana
S. D. Henderson
The
Nickel Plate Road
Cleveland, Cincinnati
Chicago & ST. Louis
R.Y
Michigan
Ween Eee
J. L. Arthur
Ina
D. B. Martin
G.P
T. A
Cincinnati, O
J. W. Walburn
Ind
the City
Alvin Bowen
Ghas
Rager
Earrhere”’ Ani
Conner
John Fitton
C. E. Rantz
Stocknolpers
Mark Smith
H. G. Fitton
W. J. Fitton
W .S. Fitton, Cashi Jantz, John
Busi
Ness
E. B. Flavien
M.D
Optician
Central Drug Store
J. D. Gill
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