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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1898
Page
8
An old advertisement fragment promotes Kedol Dyspepsia Cure claiming digestion improves health and life quality. It also touts a cough cure praised for rapid relief, noting lingering colds are dangerous and a damp flannel remedy is suggested.
A Stock Exchange member describes superstition over small lucky pencils on the trading floor. His tale links profits to a lucky inch long pencil, then to a loaned stump that brings losses, as colleagues guard their pencils like life. Intermixed are snippets from Detroit Free Press about juries and other odds and ends.
An advertisement touts DeWitts Little Early Risers as a cure for constipation and headaches with a note on pleasant tasting sugar coating. A humorous Irish jury anecdote follows about seven jurors stepping into the dock when summoned. A New Zealand agency report praises Chamberlain’s medicines for sales and household use. Knapp & Co. distribute the remedy.
A Chicago Record joke features four men arguing about division by nothing. They dispute whether one divided by nothing equals one or zero, with one claiming infinity. A dismissive speaker calls the conclusions naive as he explains the concept to them.
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