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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1906
Page
8
An old advertisement touts Dr Shoop Tone Remedy as a universal cure for rheumatism and related ailments including gout and age related pain. It claims decades of experience and promises fast relief, urging readers to buy from R A Miller in a local shop.
W C Greene, president of the Cananea copper company, filed with the state department a June 11 letter alleging Western Federation agitators incited Mexican workers, planned dynamiting of the bank, and a revolution against Diaz. He details warnings, revolutionary leaflets, powder theft, and deportations, claiming about 20 Mexicans were killed for each white man.
New York June 18 Italian immigrants and other laborers are said to suffer cruel treatment and exposure as padrone led laborers are hired in groups for southern and western work. Commissioner Bogart notes the padrone enforces a slave like system, supplying food and lodging and deducting costs from wages.
In a Lawson area clash near Mooresville Missouri two deputy officers and three suspected robbers were involved. Deputy Florton Gorham was fatally wounded high in the chest and Deputy John Boose was hit in the arm and body. The robbers fired from railroad tracks as officers retreated, wounded in the early exchange. In Fresno California on the same date dried fruit prices surged with peaches offered at ten cents a pound and apricots at sixteen cents as demand remained high.
Anton Huber of Ellizabeth New Jersey reports his 11 year old daughter suffered two attacks of appendicitis last winter and faced another. After using one bottle of Dr Adler treatment the pains in the abdomen disappeared and the girl is well now. Large dollar bottles at W A Parsons. A good boy to work on the farm in vacation. Call at this office or see BE B Butler.
Railroads announce low round trip fares to Portland Tacoma Seattle and Gulf Coast and Midwest destinations. Tickets go on sale June 18 to July 7 with various limits and extensions. Special routes via California Missouri River adjustments and imposed small extra charges apply.
Special excursion dates to Colorado Utah and the Black Hills via the North Western Line. Begining June 15 round trip tickets to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Salt Lake City Hot Springs Deadwood Lead Custer and other points with favorable return limits will be sold the first and third Tuesday of each month until September 6 inclusive. An enjoyable vacation trip offered with several fine trains daily. Apply to agents Change and North Western Ry. Ang. Hth
Inland and coastal destinations including Portland Tacoma Seattle and Vancouver Island are advertised with very low encursion rates. The notice promotes North-Western Life travel options via the North Western line with June 1–2 station presence and favorable return limits tied to the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association. It highlights express trains like The Over and Limited and Chicago to Portland Spinal style services, promising electricized routes and under three days to Portland, amid a garbled OCR rendering.
An old column cites A M Ako of Wood Indiana as healing with Foley honey and tar after years of lung hemorrhages. It touts remedies like Kennedy’s Laxative, Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, and Hartville Hooded Waters for cleansing blood and curing skin eruptions.
A. A. Morren of Pinch Ark endorses Jo Jey's Honey and Tar as the best cough and long trouble remedy, claiming it cured consumption in early stages. Dr Shoop's Green Salve advertised for lips and skin, promising immediate healing for cuts burns and abrasions, with retail by Miller at 360.
An alarming neglect of clo a king bowels and torpid liver leads to chronic constipation. The ad hails Dr Kings New Life Pills as gentle regulators of stomach and bowels sold by Miers drug store. Also touts Dawitts Whey Salve as best while noting many imitations. claims its use for burns, scalds, eczema and other skin troubles. sold by all druggists.
An old advertisement promotes Laxets a candy laxative claiming to ease constipation. It lists symptoms such as coated tongue dizziness biliousness and headaches and states a price of five cents. Sold by R A Miller.
A 19th century advertisement claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve cures lockjaw and blood poisoning, touting its use by Chas Donald a Kan selaersville merchant who reports curing Seth Bureb of a severe neck sore. The product is advertised to heal cuts burns and sores for 25 cents at H Miller's drug store.
An old advert promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe alcohol free remedy from native roots. It targets female ailments including weakness and bearing down pains. The copy emphasizes safety, lack of habit forming drugs, and claims of restorative strength for working women and nursing mothers.
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