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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1904
Page
4
A child's remembered scene recounts hush hush warnings from adults as he peers into a troubled upstairs room. The speaker asks why the same adult hush rules do not apply to the adult in question and confronts the quiet fear that surrounds a family secret.
Fragmentary verse critiques tainted pantry items with boracic acid in soup wood alcohol in wine aniline dyed hue formaldehyde in milk and sugar blends refined by unsafe processes. The poem catalogs corrupt ingredients including coconut hulls as spices and cottonseed oil as olive oil highlighting consumer peril and call for caution.
A collage of quirky items from a New Orleans paper includes a bread allergy joke about alum in bread, a note on dressing to please men with trailing skirts, a Kansas town dead man found with $100 and a coroner fee, and a comic brain teaser about dogs cats and lives. It ends with a clipped southern advertisement about a partnership dispute and settlements.
Burlington Iowa locomotive fireman C W Bellamy recalls a near disaster and a recovery after taking Electric Bitters. He says every joint ached and nerves burned yet the tonic restored health, giving strength and vigor. Sold by S Kingston, 50 cents.
Imperfect digestion reduces nutrition and vitality as liver fails to secrete bile. The remedy Herbine is claimed to restore tone to stomach liver and kidneys, improve appetite and complexion, and renew vigor throughout the system at 50 cents a bottle said by S Kingston.
An advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a universal remedy for cuts, wounds, burns, and sore feet, claiming it kills pain and cures trouble plus notes its efficacy for piles. It promotes availability at S. Kingston, a druggist, and also mentions Klein's new stock of men's patent leather lace shoes.
In Essex county New York near Lake Placid lies the John Brown grave beneath a granite boulder beside the old farm turned public charge. The piece recounts Brown's Kansas and Harper's Ferry actions and notes his historic notoriety and the Adirondack shrine’s lore.
An ad touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a remedy for stomach and liver troubles. It claims the pills relieve and cure, priced at 25 cents at S. Kingston drug store.
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