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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1904
Page
8
A Durham reader, Mrs. J. I. Bowles, writes of grave kidney weakness and backache. After nine months bedfast, she avoided surgery and used Dean's Kidney Pills, reporting rapid relief and mobility return. The ad offers a free triad of pills by mail from Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y, 50 cents per box.
The article discusses when anglers visit Florida from October to May noting peak conditions in fall and spring and favorable temperatures with daily southeast trade winds. An Irish witness testifies in a shooting case with a courtroom joke about hearing versus seeing the shot. Senator Beveridge is invited to speak at the World's Fair in St. Louis on July Fourth.
A Georgian shares how stopping coffee and drinking Postum Food Coffee restored health. He describes weight gain from 145 to 163 pounds after five months and cites his nervous headaches as cured within three days of switching. He endorses Postum and offers local references for verification.
A Sunday Bible School lesson summarizes Jeroboam’s sin in Israel’s split era. It notes his golden calves at Bethel and Dan, non Levi priests, a self devised feast, and the ensuing covenantal consequences, urging readers to seek God’s will over expediency.
A Louisville Courier Journal illustrated apparatus uses a gas producing system stored in reservoirs on a carriage to blanket potato patches with fumes as it moves lengthwise. The device aims to kill pests living inside plant growth where liquids fail to reach all invaders.
At a banquet George Ade discussed success noting failures versus triumphs. He recalled a youthful melodrama sold from Chicago to New York, rejected by a manager who warned it could be ground into a snowstorm. Ade emphasized perseverance and learning from mistakes as paths to later victories.
Illustrator Patrick Parrish spoke of a lonely Vermont farm after an overnight stay. The farmer described the landscape as barren and desolate, noting that news from New York rarely travels there and that New York hears little of Vermont.
In a breezy travel vignette a young lady asks why stewards adjust portholes during the voyage to India. Another woman explains they adjust with tides. The piece then shifts to a wider reflection on leaders planning campaigns for Russia and Japan, echoing a Punch joke about parlor strategists who are struck by an omnibus.
Ad copy compiles various medical and commercial cures and products from old newspapers. It mentions Allen's Foot-Ease for sore feet and shoes, Dr Kline remedies, and Pizo cures for consumption, with scattered remarks about emigration, police, and misquoted dates.
Article promotes Peruna as a remedy for nervousness and digestive issues linked to warm weather. Claims include that nerves weaken from poor nutrition, digestion improves vitality, and Peruna is non narcotic and permanently effective. Includes testimonial from Miss Blanche Grey of Memphis.
Miss Mary Burns of Halifax writes that after years of stomach trouble and failed remedies Peruna restored her health in three months, praising the medicine for indigestion and building up her strength after a long breakdown.
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