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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1910
Page
8
Promoting a health return plan, the ad urges prompt action at first signs of weakness. It claims the Bitters ward off sickness and aids poor appetite, heartburn, indigestion, biliousness, and malaria, with many swearing by it and keeping a bottle handy.
A husband tricks his wife by sending a card from a “well wisher” to summon her home. She had planned a four month separation but, upon receiving the note, she boards the first train back, revealing the scheme.
A humorous local exchange notes actors joining a meat strike and joking about ham servings. The dialogue quips on performance, appetite, and a playful stance against ham in meals. The exchange reflects playful civic wit within a theatre community.
A testimonial from Clara Franks of Snoxville Iowa praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills for resolving years of weakness and pain amid displacements inflammation and nervous prostration. The ad-style note urges other women to seek the remedy and offers free advice from its Massachusetts origin.
A Seattle Post-Intelligencer piece recounts Mr. Stoggleton who says his alarm clock never rings unless shaken. He notes a friendly bond with the clock, yet jokes he would throw it away if given a choice. The anecdote sits beside a critique of American humor, noting decline from Twain to Dooley and calling for a new great humorist.
Walter Williams, dean of Missouri University’s journalism school, shared that Moses was the first great editor. He argued the Bible equals a modern newspaper in its reporting, noting Moses edited more graphic crime and disobedience than today’s papers, including Adam’s disobedience and Noah’s drunkenness.
A London Mail report recounts a bluejacket escape after a seaman Bailey fell overboard from the Queen during Atlantic fleet gunnery drills. A lifebuoy was grabbed but drifted away as the Venerable fired. The target was struck but Bailey avoided injury and was rescued shortly after.
A frontier promotional piece centers on L. T. Cooper who claims most sickness stems from stomach weakness. He touts his New Discovery as restoring digestion in six weeks and cites testimonials, including Mrs. Lottie L. Miner, to push the medicine sold by Cooper Medicine Co.
A tested patient Alfred J. O'ffrien from Sterling recalls nine months in the Baltimore Marine Hospital with kidney trouble blood in urine and back pain. After three months at St. Joseph's in Omaha and no gains he used Donn's Kidney Pills. One box relieved back pain and a full cure followed. The ad urges buying Donn's at six? cents a box via Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
A family fled a typhoid outbreak by boat to Quelec then Montreal but heavy tide left the deck near the smoke stack. A little girl asks if God drank up the water and the mother explains with a joke about boiling. A cartoonish note on colored beet illustrations follows with a quip about life size prints.
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