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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1903
Page
3
A long standing Rheumatism and Kidney trouble case in Hougston County is claimed to be cured by Dodd s Kidney Pills. Mr Jami Culet of Alston says after twenty years of suffering and expensive treatments he used 42 boxes and now feels like a new man and recommends the medicine for Rheumatism and Kidney trouble.
A colored parson explains to Deacon Flatfoot that older men lose wool from their eyes as they gain experience. The parson’s grin unsettles even a calm observer, illustrating a rural folksy exchange reported by the Cleveland Leader.
An assortment of old advertisements and quips including Allen's Foot-Ease cure for feet, a trial package offer, and an address in Le Roy New York. The page also contains humorous quotes from Brooklyn Life Boston Transcript and Town Topics plus product notes for Laxative Bromo Quinine and Putnam Sadeless Dyes.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as relief for change of life symptoms. It cites 5000 testimonial letters including Bella Ross of Monta aves oenaals Mass who notes relief after six bottles and urges others to try the medicine.
Chillicothe hosts Ohio centennial events with Edward Tiffin medallion presentation to Ross County on the site of Ohio’s first capitol building. Gov Nash, Judson Harmon, and 250 schoolchildren participate as officials, judges, and public figures arrive.
The War Department reports a new telegraph station named Koyokuk at the junction of the Koyokuk and Yukon rivers in Alaska. The establishment marks a logistical advance for communications in the region.
Western lines announce summer tourist fares from Chicago to Colorado points. The Chicago North Western and Union Pacific lines offer double daily service to Denver with one night en route from Chicago and two nights from the Atlantic coast. Trains include buffet dining sleeping cars and library care.
A wan clerical figure handed out cards at the Brooklyn entrance as mourners returned home. The reverse advertised an undertaker offering a new burial plan with a clergyman endorsing the service and a patent lowering device to ease the final rites.
Laura F. Howey, librarian of the State Historical Society of Montana, received a Wells Fargo ticket used in the 1860s. The eight coupon fare from Virginia City to New York totaled $180 and included staged travel to Salt Lake, then Union Pacific to Omaha, omnibus to Council Bluffs, Chicago & North Western to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Central to Harrisburg, and Allentown to New York.
Enpeck Meeker, described as a lucky man, was involved in two strange accidents. Last fall he slipped into an open sewer and won $6,000 in damages from the city. Yesterday he fell from a third story window and landed on his mother in law.
The Burlington Route promotes cheap summer tourist rates to Colorado California and California via daily low fares with half price round trips from July 1 to 10 and August 1 to 14. Rates include a base fare plus 2.00 round trip for some legs and are advertised as withdrawn after June. The message lists travel details from St Louis and Kansas City and urges readers to request information from L W Wakeley G P A.
A Concord, North Carolina hardware merchant and justice of the peace reports that Dean's Kidney Pills cured his backache and disordered kidneys. He praises the remedy, notes relief from painful symptoms, and says a free trial offer is available by writing Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo New York. Sold by druggists at 50 cents per box.
The text urges readers to view disease as weakness and promotes Ozomulsion as a building vitalizing food. It claims Ozomulsion, made from cod liver oil with salts, regenerates the constitution, builds strength, and cures consumption, targeting women and children as well as general illness.
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