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Newspaper
Waunakee News
Location
Waunakee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1900
Page
6
A customer testimonial from Mrs. Helen Kilkenny of New Portland Maine dated January 4 praises Hair Vigor for restoring color to gray hair and making it soft and smooth. She notes five years of use and claims it cured scalp humor. her mother reportedly used the product for about twenty years and liked it.
Ayer's Hair Vigor has long been used to restore color to gray hair and prevent hair loss. It claims to keep the scalp clean and healthy and to make hair grow rich and long, offered in a one dollar bottle at all druggists.
A visitor to Libby, McNeill & Libby in Chicago tours the cutting rooms and canning department and learns the firm handles 300000 cattle and 100000 sheep per year, manufactures forty million cans annually, and employs 2000 workers. The visit also references a booklet on good things to eat. Roberts admits polygamy but says pre Utah marriages remain valid.
The ad touts Grain-O as a new drink replacing coffee with a mild taste. It claims it is made from grain flour with brown color and gentle effect on the stomach. In Philadelphia reporters note a second operation on actor Roland Reed for intestinal cancer with little hope of recovery.
A public notice urges readers to send evidence of dishonest drug sellers who push substitutes like CASCARETS and Cand y Cathartic in bulk or crude forms. The Sterling Remedy Co. promises a liberal reward for tips leading to convictions and asks for reports to Chicago or New York. A stray line mentions Rabin and Castro devising a plan for a Cuban republic.
Advertises Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for any deafness case caused by catarrh that cannot be cured. Claims deafness stems from mucous tube inflammation and urges sending for free circulars. Also notes unrelated items about Shafter escorting Lawton’s body, a seed company catalog, and a Luzon combat toll.
An old advertisement urges aid from Swanson Drops claiming relief from sciatica neuralgia dyspepsia nervousness and many ailments with a 1.00 prepaid bottle option. The piece also notes a Confederate general Dabney Maury of Richmond Virginia dying at Peoria and mentions Nellie and her baby.
A fragmented local item notes Lane’s Family Medicine movement for daily health, a January 14 church dedication for St. Bor romeo by Bishop Messimer, and brief society items including a wedding in Lacrosse, a pamphlet on Cuba and Porto Rico, a Cuba Porto Rico epidemic mention, a Queen and Crescent line to New Orleans, and the death of Mrs. Henry Meinke at Two Rivers aged 80.
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as a cure all for colds noting the product label bears She KW Careve's signature. Separately a note states Michigan's special legislative session adjourned without tax bills passing.
Admission details for the Oshkosh Business College advertise practical instruction in bookkeeping and shorthand with no vacations and a Sept. 1 1867 establishment. W. W. Daggett is listed for catalogue requests in Oshkosh Wisconsin.
Fragmented OCR notes describe a sequence of transit delays and accidents affecting schedules. Mention of Queen and Crescent, Dan O'Keefe, and a feed cutter incident appears in unclear phrasing with multiple garbled terms.
AMM niece Ching Ten was released on bond after a collation related to selling teas and coffees in Milwaukee. The reference cites D. Dickson & Co of Milwaukee Wisconsin for particulars.
Mrs. Harriet C. Tur-biesh of Kenosha dies at age 80. Pullman line extends to Florida as Two Rivers Box company opens a new factory site in town.
A Healthful grain drink Grain-O is promoted as a nourishing coffee substitute for children claiming it tastes like coffee but costs only about 4 percent as much. The ad notes it is sold by grocers at 15¢ and 5¢ per unit. Also mentions an artesian well strike on the Queensland New South Wales boundary yielding 4 000 000 gallons daily.
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