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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1899
Page
7
A scanned miscellany showcases humorous verse and cartoons about modern relationships. It peers at gender roles with quips on domestic skills, dress, and advice, featuring playful exchanges about baking, riding bicycles, and social norms.
A process shows sails made from paper pulp usable on all vessels. they swell and flap in the wind like real sails and are far cheaper. New York holds eighty five United States Senators in a 110 year span.
Jim Smyth Company at 1601 West Adams Street in Chicago proclaims itself the largest furniture house globally. The seven and a half acres of floor space, wholesale prices, and a free illustrated catalog on request illustrate the scale and a policy allowing refunds if goods are not as represented.
The notice touts Salzer Seed Company's catalog offering L2EF lines and vegetable and parm seeds, claiming high per acre yields and ahead-of-competition production. It includes pricing notes and seed offerings with a brief aside noting a historical claim about coin imagery before Alexander the Great.
Advertises round trips and home seekers excursions on Sundays with low rates. Nickel Plate Road promotes travel to Chicago Cleveland England New York and Boston with fast express trains sleeper cars and dining service. North-Western line details February 2 March 7 and 21 excursions to western and southern points at favorable discounts.
Ex Congressman A T Goodwyn of Alabama writes praising Peruna from Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company in Columbus Ohio. He claims rapid relief from catarrh after nearly a year of symptoms and urges public readers to request a free book from Dr Hartman.
A historical note discusses how people endured without beds in many homes and slept on various improvised supports. It contrasts peasant practices of sleeping on oven tops with middle class and servant habits of laying on sheepskins, and mentions soldiers and students with limited bedding options.
An old ad touts Vall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheapex Co Toledo Ohio. It claims a proprietary remedy panegyrics the bloodstream and mucous systems, urging readers to buy genuine bottles sold by druggists with a listed price per bottle. The copy mentions a local distributor and emphasizes effectiveness against catarrh and related symptoms.
A Vidanese commission reports on using sewage for agriculture. It estimates value bands from 3400 to 14,000 florins with duties from 1,200,000 to 300,000 and 18,372,000 to 1,008,010 as fertilizer potential. The analysis notes increased value when irrigated with heated effluent and cites European links.
The advertisement promises the greatest grass of earth and seeds with a seed catalog sample. It notes the plant would be valuable as a lawn and hay source and invites readers to mail a penny price to receive the catalog. It also mentions the Belgian Queen as an active musician.
Slogan crowded period ad copy touts Grain-O as a coffee alternative made from pure grains claiming it is easier on delicate stomachs, with pricing at 10c to 25c per package. It touts Mocha Java flavor and broad grocer availability along with assorted medicinal and promotional asides.
A fragment from a 19th century ad praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It alleges women suffer monthly and daily, claims the remedy relieves backache headaches nausea and nervous distress, and highlights Mrs. Pinkham's advice as freely offered to women with health troubles.
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