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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1902
Page
7
Nurses’ Experience emphasizes skilled care and medicine, citing Eliza King’s praise for St Jacobs Oil as an effective outward remedy for sprains, bruises, rheumatic pain, and pleurisy. Sister Canolla also extols its gout relief and usefulness after years of use.
Watts Flats, N D May Old soldier George Manhart aged 80 recounts a near death from Bright's Disease. Doctors said two weeks to live but Dodd's Kidney Pills improved him at once and he fully recovered, returning to chores like chopping wood as a strong man.
A Chicago Record-Herald verse by E. Kiser extols the Laughalot boy a gay cheerful figure who causes delight with his smile. The poem praises kindness, happiness, and the goodwill of those around him, noting blessings from birds and winds as he smiles through life.
A girl recounts a day spent with Sadie Graves who obsesses over fashion. A parlor visit with Uncle James and a reader who has studied Riis shifts her focus from clothes to gratitude for life’s riches. She realizes true worth lies in character, not style, and hopes to avoid Sadie’s influence as she matures.
Instructions describe crafting a miniature gun from a glass tube and wooden parts, loaded with a match and cork seal, to fire a puff of smoke a few yards, reported by the Louisville Courier-Journal. It also notes that horses, giraffes, and ostriches have large eyes among sea and land creatures.
Meredith Nugent in the New York Herald describes a paper and cardboard merry-go-round. The device uses lighted candles to spin on a water surface, with stacked disks, paper columns, and a wheel. Readers are invited to build it and experiment with tilt and angles to adjust speed.
Frank C. Bostack, a wild animal trainer, recounts that his old Irish boss, who had served in a British regiment in India, lost the tigers' respect after getting very drunk. The keeper once sat between two resting tigers and examined their claws, an act the animals tolerated only briefly. After his intoxication, the tigers refused to work and guarded him, ending his usefulness with them.
A letter from Herndon Virginia praised Peruna Medicine Co products for curing catarrh and lung ailments. It cites testimonials by E J Gresham and Mrs Col E J Gresham, plus endorsements from customers across the United States. It also advertises Dr Kilne nerve restorer and Piso’s Cure.
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