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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1901
Page
7
Kansas City Fort Scott and Memphis railway reports a twenty year experiment begun with Prof Sargent of Harvard. About 100 acres were planted with Catalpa spiciosa and other species. Catalpa poles may yield 3 to 3.50 dollars each with 10 to 15 cent fence posts, at low ongoing cost.
Mrs. M. A. Goss of Bryant Missouri credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with stunning recovery from sciatica rheumatism and bed confinement after doctors and baths failed. She says within a week of use she improved and in four weeks sat up, later walked a quarter mile, and now performs housework with the pain gone.
The largest tree in New Jersey is a white oak located three miles north of Mickelton in Gloucester County. It stands 95 feet tall with a trunk diameter of 7 feet 10 inches at ground level and a branch spread of 118 feet, and it predates colonial settlement.
An old consumer ad fragment promotes grain drinks over tea or coffee for children, touting a cheaper milk substitute option. It includes references to Dr. Due's Female Regulator and Piso's Cure, with testimonials from W. O. Expaxsr of Vandures, Indiana, dated February 10, 1900.
An old New Orleans horseman recalls a backstage incident during Kean younger’s Richard III in which a stage manager mocked the actor by sending a timid Irish extra across the stage with a banner for General Jackson Cigars. Kean chased the super off, through passageways and into a street, narrowly missing a panicked melee until the man escaped.
Prof. W. J. McGee of the bureau of ethnology will exhibit trephined ancient skulls at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo along with experimental animal skulls showing flint tools from early Peruvians. Some wounds were fatal, others allowed years of survival. Prof. W. H. Holmes will display models of domestic life of North and South American aborigines and their dwellings.
M Lanton Dumont, seen as closest to solving the Deutsch prize navigation problem, receives £160 from the Aero club for 1900 efforts toward the competition. Paris corresp says the upcoming summer contest looks especially interesting.
A Chicago jeweler and K T Mason Colonel T P Moody extols Peruna as a cure after long catarrh and stomach trouble, praising his wife’s recovery and urging perseverance. The piece mentions Hartman’s Regeom remedy and frames disease as a national threat needing public protection.
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