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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1909
Page
3
A scathing anti mail order critique labels Sears Roebuck and Co. deceitful for using covert shipping to hide purchases and urges readers to shun mail order houses. The piece alleges the firm promotes hypocrisy while profiting from low wages and urges honest local merchants.
An advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild effective laxative. It claims to ease daily bowel movements without pain or gripes, aids digestion, and strengthens the system. Endorsers include Dr L E Covey and others, with pricing 50c and 1.00 per bottle and mail order offered.
Citizens tout a dramatized arnica salve claim as a family healer. An old advertisement style call urges quick purchase by mentioning burns cuts boils and pains all supposedly cured by Buckley’s Arnica Salve sold by Haydon & Robertson.
Doctors at Georgetown University Hospital performed a pioneering operation on Vaughan of George A Kelly aged 29. The left knee of a dying man was transplanted to the living patient after amputation, with bones ligaments and tissues riveted and joined to restore function. Kelly is reported to be improving rapidly.
An advertisement claims neuralgia stems from nerve irritation and congestion and promotes Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as a remedy. It asserts the pills relieve pain when other treatments fail, with no after effects, and lists Miles Medical Co in Elkhart Indiana as the source.
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