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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
7
Five registered letters from Schuyler disappeared on The Overland Limited train No 2 on Friday November 5. A pouch catcher failed to grab the pouch and it was shredded by the wheels, scattering mail. The letters were later found resting on track under the dining car, undamaged, by a car cleaner.
An investigation in Stockholm found 1.61 percent of children ages eight to fifteen with tuberculosis. Applied to U S schools this implies 273,700 affected children, yet only 11 open-air TB schools operate with nine more under consideration. Even with proposed expansions, four tenths of one percent would be served.
A six year old boy at a railway station weighs himself on a penny in the slot machine. He asks about weighing a dollar and wonders how much he would weigh if he dropped in a dollar. His mother grants permission to weigh him again, prompting a playful reflection on money and weight.
A Memphis wife recounts a husband’s illness improving after stopping coffee for Postum. The doctor suggested Postum, and within a year the man gained weight and his stomach and heart troubles vanished. She notes boiling Postum longer improves taste and urges others to try it, inviting readers to the booklet The Road to Wellville.
Mary Dawson surveys games suited to Christmas gatherings old and young. Activities include acting adjectives and thought transference, color base, long word lists, mosaic picture scramble, and group storytelling. A sit-down contest, festive cake centerpiece, and a multi-course tea are described.
Instructions from Scientific American describe a simple Christmas tree stand built from hard wood with three A pieces a C base pieces and a B disk. The design folds flat after use by unhinging the legs and removing nails for compact storage. A V Searing Jr signs the piece.
Women craft elaborate lace neckpieces using white figured filet net attached to a high boned stock of black satin. The front bow and jabot are simply pinned on and interchangeable with other styles.
An all white tree with white fringed tissue paper gifts white ribbon and popcorn strands offers a moonlit winter aesthetic. Decorations include white paper chains bells a large white butterfly and silver powder that glints like snow in candlelight.
Mrs. Rachel Ivie of Henrietta Texas credits Dean's Kidney Pills with ending fifteen years of kidney trouble and two years of immobility. She reports restored health and energy at nearly eighty, and urges others to remember the Dean's brand available for 50 cents a box.
The New York Press notes hypnotism has been recognized since the fifteenth century and tested in thousands of cases by savants like Charcot of Paris and Bernstein in Nancy, yet its results have not justified wide practical use in sickness.
Catarrh is described as a blood or constitutional disease and claims internal remedies reach the disease seat. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, said to affect blood and mucous surfaces, with testimonials and a Toledo Ohio origin. Sold by druggists at 75c. includes note on Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A collection quotes discuss avoiding popularity by cautioning praise among the loved and limiting conversation with favorites. The text contrasts moral guidance from John Wesley with folk remedies like Wizard Oil for chest colds and inflammation. It ends with a general remark about gifts and rightful use of talents.
An 19th or early 20th century advertisement promotes Perry Davis Painkiller for rheumatism stiffness injuries and neuralgia plus Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething gums inflammation and colic in children. It also includes a proverb about a wise man suppressing opinions.
The California Fig Syrup Co touts its exceptional equipment and chemists producing Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna from plant-based medicinal principles. It warns that only the genuine product, made by the original method, yields benefits and urges buyers to check for the full company name on the package to avoid imitations.
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