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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1903
Page
7
A testimonial from Buria Ross of Roslindale praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief during the change of life. After years of dizziness hot flashes and kidney pains she credits six bottles with restoring health and urges other women to try the medicine.
Members of the Transporta ton Club discussed future dining while drinking coffee. A young New Yorker proposed silverless dinners where no knives or forks are needed. He offered to bet he could create an excellent eight course menu without silver on the table. The group and accompanying women judged the meal a perfect success with eight courses including dystera and aquuhn in various formats.
The Supreme Court orders a permanent injunction with costs in a case by Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York owner of the FOOT EASE trade name restraining Paul B. Hudson and a Brooklyn dealer from making or selling Dr Clark’s Foot Powder alleging it imitates FOOT-EASE. The court upholds the FOOT-EASE mark and warns others profiting from a similar product. Similar actions will follow against other infringers using spurious packaging and labeling.
A dialogue between a willing patient and a doctor quotes the doctor urging remarriage and the patient mistaking a proposal. Mrs Oscar Tripp of Big Rock Ti notes Piso's Cure for consumption as the best medicine for coughs and colds, dated March 20, 1901.
The City of London is the money center by day with over a million people present during business hours yet nearly empty at night. New York’s Wall Street district serves a similar role, smaller in area but crowded by day and quiet at night.
An old fish expert recalls remarkable tales of creatures that travel on land, emit musical sounds, climb trees, and shoot water at prey. He cites Siamese shore species, a Florida musical fish, a climber perch in India, and a West Indies shooting fish, ending with a river alcohol incident and reflections on how little we know about fishes.
Detroit Free Press reports Graham Peck, a noted snake authority, describes a snake’s hypnotic influence over prey. He cites a gopher snake’s coil attack on a ground squirrel and notes rattlesnakes have the strongest alluring power among poisonous snakes in the southwest.
Clifford's Inn, London's oldest chancery inn, was sold for 500000 dollars. Dating from 1310 as the town house of Baron de Clifford, it hosted law students in the mid century at 60 dollars yearly. In 1618 the Society of Clifford's Tan bought the Earl of Cumberland's property for 3000 dollars with a covenant to keep the inn's name for public benefit. The society has not admitted new members since 1877, now numbering fourteen.
H. B. Hulbert, Korea's commissioner to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, arrives aboard the Umbria with an iron model ship from the sixteenth century. He argues the model shows Korea's long lead in iron ship construction and notes his seventeen years as Commissioner of Education. He credits American educational methods with shaping Korean schools.
A fragmentary clipping presents a cryptic note about a man and his partner with unclear context and missing details. The readable bits imply a critique of gender or relationship roles, but no concrete events or identifiers are discernible.
A prominent college man, Mr John W Meng of Indianapolis, credits Peruna with curing chronic indigestion and stomach catarrh after six weeks of use. He urges others to maintain faith in Peruna as a remedy for summer catarrh and stomach ailments. Willis Brewer, U S Representative from Alabama, also endorses Peruna as a tonic and recommends it to those needing relief. Dr Hartman offers free advice to readers who report their cases.
In a courtroom exchange the prosecuting attorney asserts the prisoner did not know the pistol was loaded yet he pointed it at a friend and fired. The judge agrees the act was entirely unintentional and muses on sending him to an idiot asylum rather than prison after the friend’s injury.
An Alaska wheat note reports ancient rus settlements with two old flour mills, one on Wood Island and another inland. Smithsonian investigator R B Taylor confirms the Wood Island mill was built by Russians early in the 1800s.
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