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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1912
Page
17
A promotional note urges mothers to keep Syrup of Figs for children showing digestive woes. It promises gentle bowel cleansing, non harmful taste, and full directions on the package. The ad claims the product is the genuine old reliable from the California Fig Syrup Co.
Science notes childhood home cures like Bucklen’s Arnica Salve used by mothers and grandmothers for burns boils scalds sores skin eruptions cuts sprains and bruises. Forty years of cures prove its merit and it remains unrivaled for piles corns or cold sores at 25 cents at all druggists.
London report details Dorothy Kerin a 22 year old who revived from tuberculosis and diabetes after a near death in 1910. Doctors counted 37 specialists and a fading prognosis yet she rose from unconsciousness claiming an angel guided her to rise. Her recovery spurred discussions on science and religion and a renewed faith in spiritual laws.
Automobile fatalities in New York City rose almost 100 percent in the nine months of this year from January 1 to September 1, compared with the same period in 1911. A report by Colonel Edward S. Cornell cites 138 auto deaths vs 79 last year, with 117 wagon deaths and 86 trolley car deaths. August saw near doubling. 20 children and 28 adults killed, 262 injured. The report notes many grade-crossing accidents and advocates driver stopping rules. transit officials consider adopting new signaling and destination indicators.
Life of Samuel Olsen, assistant engineer for Bradley Construction in Brooklyn, likely saved by a surgical feat using 13 stitches with silver thread threaded through his skull. The report describes a remarkable operation and the patient’s home address at 76 Becond Place.
An unsigned appeal offers a prescription for nervous weakness and waning manhood claimed to restore vigor at home without medicine. It promises free copies by mail from Detroit Michigan and condemns doctors charging high fees for prescriptions.
Olsen, an engineer, fell 14 feet in a Durane Street excavation and suffered a skull fracture. At Volunteer Hospital Dr. A J Savage and assistants performed a three hour operation inserting seven drill holes and stitches, saving a fragile pulse rise from 45 to 90. The priest administered last rites in the ambulance.
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