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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
7
Terre Hill Pennsylvania resident Mrs. Lyon touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from back pains and digestive issues. The ad extols the remedy as a historic, nature based treatment for women's ills with many letters supporting its efficacy and claims of avoiding surgery.
A long list of rescued passengers and crew from the Empress of Ireland is published, naming many individuals by surname and given name, including residents from Chicago, Liverpool, Nassau, and Montreal, among others, with various roles such as chief engineer, purser, cook, steward, and pantryman.
A partial roster lists Salvation Army Atwell Mas and Mrs Toronto, Miss Alice, Brooks Thomas in Toronto, Delamont two brothers in Moose Jaw, Foord Ernst, Green Ernest, Greenaway Herbert and family in Toronto, Johnstone James, Keith Alfred lieutenant Toronto, M Ammon staff captain Toronto, Morris Major Frank Lindsay, MIntyrh Kenneth Toronto, Spooner R captain Toronto, Turtin Richard major Toronto, Wilson George captain Toronto.
A chronological list of major shipwrecks and maritime disasters from 1850 to 1914, detailing vessels, routes, causes, and estimated deaths. Notable entries include the Birkenhead disaster, Royal Charter, Titanic, Empress of Ireland, and numerous transoceanic wrecks, reflecting escalating loss of life at sea.
London editors demand a full inquiry into whether bulkheads were closed and why the latest watertight system failed to save the Empress of Ireland. The disaster hits Lloyds underwriters hardest since Titanic and could hinder a Canadian Lloyds plan to lower London vessel insurance rates on St. Lawrence routes. The Times questions what Storstad could have done to strike so suddenly and violently.
A concise joke explaining that a woman’s fear of a mouse stems from the belief the tiny creature lacks the power to injure her. The line plays on the mismatch between perceived threat and actual danger.
Do not stand itching skin longer. Buy resinol ointment and resinol soap from the druggist. Bathe eczema with soap, dry, apply ointment. Relief comes quickly as itching stops, sleep improves, and eruptions fade. English society women plan tea shops at continental resorts.
An old advertisement promotes RUB-MY-TISM as a cure for rheumatism and different aches including neuralgia cramps colic sprains bruises cuts and burns. It notes the product as an antiseptic anodyne priced at 25 cents. A medical note mentions Mrs A O Rice of Morgantown West Virginia is to undergo a 250 square inch skin graft surgical procedure.
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