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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1902
Page
2
An early 20th century advertorial explains kidney function and its link to blood and heart health. It touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a top kidney remedy, claims dramatic cures, and offers free samples by mail from Dr Kilmer & Co. in Binghamton New York.
In Owensboro Kentucky on July 17 Joe Adderson, jailed for life murder, was lynched on the main street by about forty masked men. Authorities say he was the first white man lynched in Dass County. The king’s coronation preparations and official notices are mentioned in dispatches.
Fragmentary notes describe wet Friday conditions delaying work at the glass works, postponing noon labor, and hindering timber and brick handling. Workers had stacked belts and ore piles while storage and site tasks paused due to rain. Some contractor and celebratory remarks appear in the jumbled text.
A garbled OCR fragment reports repairs at the Treasurers Office with unclear names and dates. It mentions individuals like Tate Bean and Jrev Wade amid broken phrases, referencing an older desk or counter, and a partial note from Stapp about a door.
An old newspaper fragment promotes stomach and liver health tonics and cough remedies. Names like German SAC Green Woodbury NJ and Kodal appear amid random health testimonials and marketing copy. The ad urges immediate action and claims to cure consumption and lung troubles.
Heavy rains in central Iowa push flood into Missouri farms, risking vast crops and tens of millions in losses. Levees near Keokuk and Hannibal hold against surge while towns like Alexandra and Ottumwa brace for inundation. Weather officials warn crest may reach Sunday with widespread damage across 300 square miles along the Mississippi between Keokuk and Hannibal. The report notes crop failures, especially corn and wheat, and recalls Mark Twain’s Mississippi days as flood waters threaten the region.
Mrs Charles Wyre and two children visit Mansfield while J Gerhart of Greville reports a pension per month. Mrs J G Black and daughters depart for Travers City Mich for two weeks. Several residents travel to Canton Canton visits and Chicago. A drunken arrest, porch addition at the Children’s Home, and minor injuries from a hay accident are noted along with multiple local social visits and a plan for a future eighth regiment reunion.
The readable fragments describe medical remedies and remedies’ effectiveness, mentioning individuals and places but lacking a clear news event or outcome to report. It notes a local citizen and druggists and references past attacks without specific dates or results.
An old advertisement proclaims Hall’s Catarrh Cure as effective internally, with testimonials from local druggists and wholesalers. It touts kidneys as life guards and promotes Fulley’s Kidney Cure, urging readers to buy through Laubach & Boyd & Rimmerman A Co. The notice claims 16 years of customer trust and offers free testimonials.
Shousted and irritable nervous system conditions cause headaches and the cure is to restore nerve action to normal. A heart tonic is used. Headache Wafers are described as the cure, acting on nerves and tonic to the heart. Claimed harmless, 10 cents at druggists.
A brief notice reports a man troubled with kidney ailment for about two years. After taking Foley’s Kidney Cure, the remedy effected a clear improvement, with the claim that two bottles cured him. The text cites A. Fr. Davis or Mtr Sterling as writers or endorsers.
AKON July 18 The remains of Kent A Young of Doylestown Stockton? are brought from Mt Clemens to Akron. The funeral was held at 2 PM Wednesday at the home of Mr and Mrs Uhas Young 126 Crosby street with Rev Keller officiating. Interment Glendale cemetery. He was 34 and survived by wife Ella Shondell, parents, four brothers Marshall Dostestoun Chas J Clinton Edward J Wadsworth Augustus, and sister Laura Young.
Katharine Paulus, 77, longtime city resident and German Evangelical church member, died after a stroke on Wednesday following a Tuesday collapse. Survived by children Charles, Kate, Maggie, Luzzie Paulus of Wooster, Jacob of Massillon, Daniel of Emporia. Funeral at 1:00 pm Saturday from East Henry street home with Wooster Cemetery interment.
Contractor Schraeder of Massillon arrived in Wooster to supervise erection of the new plant. He began hiring men for work, aiming to start full crew tomorrow morning. Initial progress was limited, but preparations continued with bricks arriving for the lime and cement houses and a tool house.
Akron Star reports repor ter B B Camp expresses willingness to extend the Ashland and Wooster line to New London, with a survey by Z T Herndon and Eberhard to locate the right of way. If New London provides free right of way, the road could be built this season, connecting with By Four and later extending toward coal fields owned by Mt Camp.
Creston July 16 Res B Gay pastor of Jackson and Canaan Presbyterian churches has received a call to Garden Memorial Presbyterian Washington D C He will accept and expects to begin new work around September first, .
Mr M J Coyle of 206 Bower Street Akron Ohio reports six months of distressing back head pain from a nervous affliction. He says A W Chase’s Nerve Pills cured it, noting he has had no trouble since and highly recommends the medicine as a fine nerve tonic.
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