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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1906
Page
6
An Abilene Kansas resident, C Lightner of 702 Cedar St, describes years of back pain and frequent gravelly urination due to kidney trouble from daily work. He credits Boars Kidney Pula with erasing symptoms. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box by Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
In Brittany it is tradition to exhume the dead after a period, storing only the skulls in small hex cases with a heart-shaped front opening. Each box bears the deceased's name and date.
Mrs. Rood from Risley Piermour N H Ort reports a dramatic eczema case in her four month old son. After doctors failed and ridicule from friends, she used the Citheara Remedies and notes rapid improvement within months, with full recovery in about six months in 1907.
The article notes 106 branches for colored societies in the United States with 74 in educational institutions and two in cities. It mentions an aggregate membership around 8400 and advertises a herbal cure for bowel and liver troubles, urging readers to write to Garield Tea We in Brookden, No. Y., for Linfield Iva.
A New York Press account describes a woman in a tallor-trade pawn who declines multiple offers of seats and assistance aboard a streetcar near Fortieth Street. She speaks in a backward, rambling manner, and bystanders note she is uncooperative yet determined to remain standing during the ride through the city.
Pittsburg reports a costly divorce battle over Augusta Hartje and John Hartje as he seeks to prove infidelity by Mary Kenney Scott Hartje. The case links a millionaire, a coachman, and assertions of brutal treatment, with high profile lawyers David Walton and John Freasman leading the defense for Hartje and public sympathy turning on the defense of the Hartje marriage.
A rugged river scene describes the Gila crossing near Yuma with vast driftwood, as trees ten inches thick and twenty to forty feet high topple into the current. The account details trees snapping, breaking, and whirling, with branches ripping and wearing down the banks as the river consumes the forest line.
An advertisement touts Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the leading cure for disorders of the female organs. It claims it relieves backache nervousness and painful periods while aiding childbirth and menopause. The copy cites extensive testimonials from the Pinkham Laboratory and invites women to write for guidance, with Mrs Pinkham overseeing responses.
The New York Times notes plans by an Austrian academy to record and archive the languages and dialects of Austria Hungary and other regions. It suggests American colleges should join the effort, citing college yells and student shouts as worthy additions to the archives.
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