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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1896
Page
7
Ambiguans cites remedies and ads from an old issue. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for malaria chills fever and numerous ailments while touting Elkhart Carriage and Harness Co direct sales and a Salzer Seeds promotion. Also mentions early vegetables and seed catalogue offers.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal cure for catarrh with a $100 pledge if it fails. It urges readers to request testimonials and lists F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo as makers. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and various health quackery phrases.
A middle aged man enters a saloon on Eighth Avenue near Fifty third Street and drinks a dose of poison misrepresented as liquor. An ambulance and doctor intervene with a stomach pump after a tense rescue scene restoring him briefly, the man reveals he ingested quinine for seven weeks rather than poison.
A Washington Post tale recalls a young man who mixed a tailor bill with a note to his fiancée. Distracted, he mailed the bill to her instead of the note, sparking a confrontation. The tailor later forgave the error and helped secure an order for two suits.
The Indians of Brazil used dead ant heads in wound treatment. They pinch the ant head to the skin where a cut sits, the jaws close over the wound, and the head is left attached until healing. The method relies on the ant’s jaw grip remaining for hours or days after death.
Danish women launch a winter theater featuring plays by women dramatists with every role played by women. An all female orchestra soloists and chorus conductor are planned. Margaret Thorson has completed a play and Frau Emma Gad prepared a ballet for the company.
A Burlington Iowa Gazette feature recounts Mr. Tabor secretary treasurer of the Commercial Printing Co describing a severe sciatic rheumatism attack. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with his recovery after eight boxes and notes strong local druggist support and general efficacy claims. The ad copy promotes Pink Pills for Pale People at 50 cents a box.
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