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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1903
Page
8
A Milwaukee woman testifies that after years of sterility and medical failure she used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for over three months, then conceived after twenty two months, transforming her home and life with renewed hope and gratitude.
E P Powell describes a home built gasoline engine of about 60 dollars powering farm tasks. It runs on one gallon per ten hours per horsepower, costs under five dollars yearly for operation, and can saw wood grind grain bone and sharpen tools. He asserts it replaces several hired hands, is easy to operate, and should be kept in a small shed away from buildings.
A Rural New Yorker excerpt recounts a custom ordered power windmill of seven to eight horsepower, 12 feet high and 12 feet in diameter, praised for low wind reliance and 36 rpm in heavy wind. It used 12 upright cups, cost little beyond oil, and operated 14 years before barn fire in 1898.
Dr. Thomas F. Rumbold argues nervous prostration is driven by chronic nasal inflammation rather than overwork. He says nasal congestion from excesses of alcohol tobacco and colds triggers cerebral circulation disturbance, causing irritability insomnia forgetfulness and fatigue often blamed on continual mental labor.
The article notes that Korean women are given a childhood nickname within family circles but are effectively nameless to outsiders. After marriage she is referred to by her husband's district, and if she has children she becomes "the mother" of their family. In court, a temporary name is assigned to streamline proceedings.
A Dover article notes Boer customs with ukutiwala, where a suitor abducts a girl after cattle bribes and cries of the bride, a ritual interpreted as a plea to be left alone but not aided. The piece includes satire on wealth and a German industrial note about spontaneous combustion of red lead at German works.
A humorous scene shows a suitor kneeling before an heiress while a court judge debates a paradoxical metaphor about the world and waistlines. Meanwhile Brooklyn boss Hugh McLaughlin is teased for shabby clothes as his lieutenant Shevlin ships him shoes costing twelve dollars, prompting a risky bill dispute.
Eas He Found It. Folk, Ark. Nov. 9. George Hiland reports a remedy that absolutely cures rheumatism. He says Dodd's Kidney Pills and Dodd's Liver Pills cured his Acute Rheumatism from 1900, when he was immobile, allowing him to work again, and declares the pills a perfect cure.
In Stray Stories a playful dialogue introduces Prof. Alpen Stocker who has overcome the Matterhorn’s difficulties. QO responds with enthusiasm inviting the professor to attend the next mites reception and metaphorically ring the Matterhorn with him.
Double Daily Through Service to California via Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain routes offers a central Colorado corridor or True Southern Route through Texas and Arizona with through sleepers from St Louis to Los Angeles. Tourist car service four days weekly. Rates vary with full agent contact details for Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain Route or H Towxsean, St Louis. Economy rewards echoed in a fragmentary ad line.
Low rate excursions offered on the first and third Tuesdays of each month via AL, K, & I. Ry to Lexa Indian and Oklahoma Territories. Booklets titled Texas Business Chances Indian Territory and others will be sent for a two-cent postage stamp prepaid. Address George Morton G. P. & T. A. MK. & T. By Suite Q The Wainwright St. Louis Mo.
The fragment cites a quip about marriage to a foreign noble and a judge, followed by an ad line about curing a cold in one day. It also references Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with money refund terms and a Puck cartoon caption noting a reverse where money is turned the wrong way. The text is a collage of satirical dialogue and notice-like ad copy.
A historical ad-like snippet warns that chronic catarrh can hide, urging prompt treatment at the first symptoms. It touts Perune as a remedy that attacks the disease at its root and offers a book on catarrh sent free by The Perune Medicine Co in Columbus, Ohio.
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