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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1907
Page
3
A three year old cooperative formed by prominent druggists, The United Drug Co, promotes Rexall Remedies made in Boston laboratories. They emphasize no cure alls, selection of proven remedies, and low prices by avoiding advertising and heavy margins, aiming for safety and transparency for customers.
The advertisement outlines Mucu Tone ingredients Gentian Cubebs Cascara Sagrada Glycerine and Sarsaparilla as a catarrh remedy. It credits Gentian as a top tonic foundation and cites Cubebs Cascara Sagrada for laxative and antiseptic roles. It also promotes Rexall 98 Hair Tonic with Resorcin Beta Naphthol Pilocarpin claiming scalp healing and natural hair color restoration.
Ten Balance Frame Dandy cultivators with six shovels and a spring trip are offered at 25 dollars each. Sale valid only until April 1st by Tur man and Riggs in Terre Haute.
Call at No 18 South Side to view the Petaluma Incubator at work hatching chicks as Je B Mullane Company details a 38 8 arrangement.
F A Ober recalls Kingston Jamaica after the 1692 quake and fire. Port Royal’s wicked bustling harbor life, buccaneers led by Henry Morgan, and the city’s collapse shape Kingston’s founding. Descriptions cover landscape, markets, churches, and the mix of white planter and black worker life amid health and climate notes.
The president of the Casualty Company of America, Robert B. Armstrong, was briefly blocked from his New York office after an overbroad executive order barred entry after hours without a written permit. A watchman questioned Armstrong, who retrieved an official permit, then returned to gain access, only to leave again when unable to locate the proper authorization. The episode ends with him securing the needed seal and reentry. A separate interview in Chattanooga notes W J Oliver’s aim to dig the Panama Canal, prioritizing legacy over profit.
A San Francisco dispatch notes the No Seat No Pay league where riders wear red badges and cling to streetcars. Clashes with conductors occur, but alliance with sympathizers often gives the protesters the upper hand as conductors abandon fare collection.
The balloon Walter Wellman plans to use for a north pole attempt was shown in Paris. It is spindle shaped with a stable threefold rubber envelope varnished. It measures 177 feet long plus 16 feet 6 inches, a 118 foot car, and a ninety horsepower motor. Balloon volume exceeds Lebaudy's at 7.519 cubic yards versus 3.290.
The will of Charles L. Farrington, Boston merchant, reveals a fortune over 230000 dollars. Two hundred thousand funds a memorial for his parents and helps poor children with harbor trips and free country trips. Fifty thousand goes to Harvard University to advance knowledge on infectious diseases.
Harrisburg dispatch reports society women form a pro whiskers society to discourage attention from men lacking full beards and to refuse marriage to those without whiskers. They argue whiskers make men handsomer and better husbands and fathers.
fragmented OCR text suggests a discussion of food discomfort and a test or confession about preserved fruit. unclear names or dates appear in the snippet.
The Building Management notes a trend toward stylish new and planned apartments across the country. San Francisco plans a tenant pool Turkish bath roof garden ballroom and central lagoon. Chicago will add garages and elevators. a Chega apartment will boast a large family animal exhibit. The rise in apartment life signals growing city concentration and higher building quality.
A South Norwalk dispatch reports a unique Lonion club where men must be rejected by their loves to join and vow to avoid fruit. Officers include Main squeeze Arthur Hoyt and chief juice extractor Toward Baker with others like Edward O'Brien and Addison Austin. One member left vows after his lemon turned peach.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports a Japanese individual secured a ten year lease for sixty acres in Green Valley near Vallejo to grow grapes. Expectation grows that additional Japanese settlers will follow, threatening white competition and potentially changing Solano County demographics similar to Hawaii.
A Parisian bride, daughter of a hairdresser, married recently to M. Le Blanc, reportedly received from her father a handsome dowry and her own weight in the finest toilet soap. She weighed about 140 pounds, ensuring a long supply for the couple.
A humorous, hyperbolic sketch exalts Captain Bill McDonald as a fearless Texas ranger. The piece mocks grandiose antiwar rhetoric, praising Bill as invincible with water and a bucket, and imagines absurd military ranks and feats across Texas from Calveston to Dallas.
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