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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1909
Page
3
A jumble of old advertisements and anecdotes notes cures for skin disease with Cutheura, eye salves, and tonics. It also contains jokes, marriage talk, and silly wordplay about diet and love, as well as a brief testimonial from L Wilson of Puryear Tennessee and various patent medicine pitches.
Peter Johnson, a farmer near St Charles Illinois, battled an enormous eagle for two hours to save his three year old son. Neighbors joined with pitchforks and clubs as the bird wore down, finally giving way. Johnson was scratched but the child remained unharmed as the eagle collapsed.
A boy’s quick action saved a child as an enormous eagle attacked. Johnson fought the bird with one hand while restraining it with the other, two neighbors aided, and the bird was finally pinned with pitch forks. The eagle measured 12 feet wingspan and was taken for a zoological garden. Johnson suffered scratches and a deep shoulder gash but is not in danger.
Cat-Mise Jerriew Pooler, a Philadelphia visitor, credited a sudden jolt in the Pacific Ocean near Rathosheae with restoring the speech and hearing of a girl who had been deaf since infancy. The bath involuntary, resulted in loss of valuables and a shock, but the unnamed girl, now 19, is said to be garrulous again after the icy dip in the lake in Pennsylvania years earlier.
Trenton, N. J Cupid's success in bringing two young people to the altar was due to a name carved in a pavilion on the Cape May boardwalk and a penny souvenir postal card. Miss Anna Clark of near Lawrenceville and Joseph Brodin, a contractor of Seattle, were married here recently after a sequence of letters and visits sparked by the carved name in a pavilion and a surprise postal. The romance began when Brodin carved his name in 1907 and Clark later received a penny card asking if he leaves his name behind him. Brodin responded with a letter, then traveled east last summer to meet Clark.
Samuel Denny, a 70 year old prospector near Cottonwood Pass west of Buena Vista, endured over 30 days snowbound. He hacked a ten mile route through drifting snow to reach Hotel Buena Vista at Hot Springs for food and shelter, leaving cattle to starve as provisions dwindled.
A guide on selecting color schemes for houses, stressing exterior and interior impact on appearance and property value. It promotes consulting National Lead Company for free color books and a painting outfit, then mixes in unrelated humor and vintage ads to fill space.
A prominent Georgia physician shares his experience with Grape-Nuts, claiming the cereal rebuilt nerve and brain tissue as well as muscle. He describes a decline that improved after two weeks on the food, enabling him to resume work and regain weight, urging others to try it and noting the slogan There’s a Reason.
G W Whitney of Medina New York invites kidney sufferers to write for his testimonial on Dean's Kidney Pills. He claims dramatic weight gain and complete cure after eighteen months of pain and hospital care. Pills sold for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y.
Patient testimonials from Chicago say the remedy cured long standing female ailments including inflammation and displacements after doctors warned of surgery. The ad claims the product, made from roots and herbs, restored wellness and offers a low cost trial with life changing results for many women.
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