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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1901
Page
3
An old advertisement touts Hal's Catarrh Cure by Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as a constitutional treatment. It claims to cure catarrh internally with a dosage from drops to a teaspoon, promising one hundred dollars for any failure and urging readers to send for testimonials and circulars.
An ad offers Allen's Foot-Ease powder for feet with claims it cures sweating damp sore feet and makes new or tight shoes comfortable. Also notes a frost bite cure and lists druggists and shoe shops selling it for 26 cents. Four hundred Porto Rican laborers sailed from San Francisco for Hawaii Tuesday. Also an imitation of a cold remedy with guaranteed refund if it fails.
A New York company undertakes the unwatering of the Sirena mine in Guanajuato, once flooded since 1822, after two years of pumping to clear nine miles of workings. The site reveals relics, including a mule and human skeletons, and aims to mine deeper than old Mexican methods allowed. Electricity replaces mule power as exploitation expands into related mines in the district.
A leading life insurance company released fifty year monthly records on causes of death. Out of 44 963 deaths, 5 535 were tuberculosis and 5 542 apoplexy and paralysis. Heart disease 4 839, digestive 4 58, pneumonia 4 062, violent causes 3 237, Bright’s disease 2 997, typhoid 1 712. Distribution by age shows 50 percent of violence deaths in ages 45 and under, 59 percent of tuberculosis in that group, and 68 percent of typhoid in the same. After 60, Bright’s disease 47 percent, apoplexy 55 percent, heart disease 56 percent. digestive deaths spread across all ages.
The article notes a shift in superstition from Friday to Sunday as a day of bad luck. It cites high profile tragedies of recent times including the assassinations of Czar Nicholas II, President Carnot, and King Umberto, and the Tay Bridge disaster as reinforcing the belief. It also mentions hair and nail cutting on the Sabbath as unlucky in northern England.
Philip N. Jackson, allied with J Brodhead Woolsey, orders windows built into a large Quintan street fence to admit light into dining room and bedroom windows of Judge Herman Schalk, who resides in the lower Mat next to the fence. Jackson is said to be friendly with Schalk. Tribune notes the spire fence with windows as a novel result.
Cincinnati experiences an ongoing streetcar boom with plans to extend eight lines. Officials announce expansion aims to boost transit coverage and neighborhood connectivity amid growth.
Records from the Provident Institution in England show abstainers have lower death rates than drinkers. Among 18,220 expected deaths for drinkers, only 12,454 would occur among abstainers, suggesting alcohol accelerates organ degeneration after age sixty. Similar trends appear across temperance groups and friendly societies, with abstainers showing notably lower mortality and sickness.
A Presbyterian pastor Rev E G Smith testifies Peruna cured his family ailments after other remedies failed. The letter, signed by Elder Rev E G Smith of Greensboro Ga, praises Peruna as a remedy with few equals for intestinal and kidney issues. It urges readers to contact Dr Hartman for guidance.
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