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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1898
Page
6
An old time cigarette style ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into shoes for cold feet and foot ailments. It claims cures for chilblains frostbite damp sweating feet corns and bunions and offers a 25 cent price with a free sample by addressing Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
A testimonial style piece recounts long battle with indigestion and related ailments. John C. Pritchard credits Dr. Ayer's Pills with rapid relief after fifteen years of worsening symptoms. William Steinke of Grant Nebraska also reports regained appetite and health after use. The advertisement promotes Ayer's Pills as swift relief for constipation and numerous related symptoms.
A Detroit Free Press report recalls a white entertainer who toured Upper Michigan with a graphophone and lantern show. In Burt Lake, Native elders and villagers rejected the act and destroyed the equipment after a failed comic number, forcing him to flee by boat into darkness.
A Baltimore Sun reprints a historical anecdote about a cunning slave who, trapped by a wager, proclaims I have outsmarted you with the line Well, you've got this old coon at last. The crowd applauds and Sambo's reputed astuteness becomes lore.
A correspondent reports the Rand district in South Africa is costly to mine with as much expense as value. About 100 mines must close soon as operations cease to be profitable. Last year 183 mines were active, with several since shutting. A little over a dozen large paying properties remain.
W P Fox aged 60 and Miss Cath erine Tate aged 70 caused a stir in Millersburg Kentucky by eloping and marrying. The incident drew attention from the town's younger residents as a bold romance.
A Toledo claim asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh by taking it internally and affecting the blood and mucous surfaces. Frank J Cheney of F J Cheney & Co. swears to the affidavit dated December 6th, with notary A W Gleason witnessing. The ad promotes testimonials and 15 cents pills.
The advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as providing lasting relief from habitual constipation and claims superior, permanent effects over other laxatives. It promotes the genuine product by the California Fig Syrup Co and notes a $1,000 price for a review by Mrs. Gladstone.
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