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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1891
Page
3
A jumble of medical claims and crafts appears, praising Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Hall’s Catarrh Cure, alongside notes on paper use in industry. The text interweaves promotional notes, random musings on temperaments, and hazy facts about printers and gadgets, with stray lines about pawnbrokers and politics.
The fragment recalls a familiar advertising jingle about Castoria across generations. It mentions giving Castoria to a sick baby, a crying child, and even to her own children as she aged. The text mirrors vintage product promotion.
A collection of tales recounting wills, greed, and deceit in domestic and urban life. An old dowager heir gambit ends in poverty for Eliza while a miser’s deathbed scene collapses his fortune. Stories reveal how swiftly fortunes shift when last wishes collide with law and conscience.
A fragmented reminiscence recalls a street meeting over a quarter between two men with similar legends of Gettysburg and fate, followed by Buffalo Bill’s autograph caper in Washington. It notes a proposed Davy Crockett monument in Tennessee and ends with a bleak view of scandal in the dramatic profession.
A reader notes the lack of truth and confidence in advertising claims. The ad promises a $500 guarantee if catarrh is not cured in any form or stage, and touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a cure for catarrh and other ailments, stressing small, effective doses.
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