ONE BODY mm IN RUINS
This Brings the Total of Known
Dead to Pour—Search is
Temporarily halted
CAUSE OF FIRE IS STILL A MYSTERY
Authorities Seem Convinced That It Started From
Furnace—Property Damage $185,000.00
Omaha.—After working from 7 o’clock Sunday morning until 5 o'clock
fn the evening, Commissioner A1 Kugel called a halt to the work in searching
in the ruins of the Dewey hotel temporarily. When the men quit work their
search for more bodies of victims of the horrible fire had been unrewarded.
No more bodies had been recovered and indications were that no more wour*l
be located.
Fire Chief Salter, who remained at the scene of the tire almost the en
tire day, said he had given up hope of ever unearthing more bodies. “We
have searched that part of the building where the victims were supposed to
have gone down,” he said, "and have found nothing and it is my belief that
all the dead have been accounted for. 1 hardly believe that an}- were
cremated.”
The body of Mrs. Alice Bonevieu, [
sister of Mrs. C. E. Winkins, acting j
manager of the burned Dewey hotel,
was recovered from the ruins at 4
o'clock Saturday morning, it is the
only body discovery up to the pres
ent time.
The identification was made by
Floyd Wilkins, son of Mrs. Wilkins,
and by Night Clerk Nold. A Russian
pony coat and a gold necklace fur
nished the means of identification.
Workmen are now’ digging in the
portion of the ruins in which bodies
of other victims are believed to be
buried. Nearly half of the ruins
which crumbled into the basement
have been cleared up. Another por
tion of the ruins contains much parti
ally burned lumber, and comparative
ly little brick, and will not take more
than twenty-four hours to clear up.
The body which was discovered tvas
found in the engine room of the base
ment, under a great heap of ice-coat
ed wreckage. Sam George and John
Shady, laborers in the employ of the
street department, stuck their picks
into a pile of bedclothes, and with
drew them immediately upon discov
ering the charred stump of a leg pro- j
The Known Dead.
Charles Cummings, bartender at
the Henshaw.
Unknown man, about 50 years
old.
Mrs. Alice Bonnevue. sister of
Mrs. C. E. Wilkins, wife of the
proprietor of the hotel.
A man named Beverly, who
worked at the Cole oyster house.
The injured:
Mrs. C. E. Wilkins, serious burns
and mental collapse.
Miss Lida Nelson, chambermaid,
broken leg and burns.
Grace Lee, 104 South Eleventh
street, minor burns
Izzie Stipps, mailer, at hospital
with bruises.
lola Jennings, 838 North Nine
teenth street, burned about face
and body.
Clara Newman, 838 North Nine
teenth street, slightly burned.
Mark Henenway, Ewing, Neb.,
hands cut by glass.
Robert Olived, fireman, foot hurt
by flying hose.
Grace Burton, 822 Spring street,
condition serious.
View of Fire-Wrecked Dewey Hotel.
truding.
The body was burned almost be
yond resemblance of a human form.
Both legs were burned off, one to the
lcnee, and the other a little higher up.
The face was completely obliterated,
and the hair charred so that it was
impossible to tell what color it had
been.
The black Russian pony coat, most
ly destroyed by fire, covered the up
per part of the chest and back, and a
portion of the arms. An earring,
containing a set, which may be a ruby,
was in one ear, the other ear being
destroyed.
Of a dozen acquaintances of Mrs.
Alice Bonevieu, who have called at
the morgue of Coroner Crosby, none
were able to identify the body posi
tively. Some declared that Mrs.
Bonevieu had a pony coat, and this
proved the best identification clue.
The coat evidently had been donned
| in a great hurry, immediately after
| the alarm of fire had been spread in
: the building. There were no clothes
under the coat.
The report which was first circulat
ed that a man by the name of Bever
ly, who worked at the Cole Oyster
house, had been burned and which
was later refuted, may still prove to
be correct. A man by the name of
Hanson it has been learned was tak
en for Beverly. Hanson works at
the Cole Oyster company and Beverly
was a waiter at a local restaurant, but
just which one no one seems to know.
I Manager Nold of the Dewey hotel said
| he had seen nothing nor heard any
thing about the whereabouts of Bever
! ly and believes that he went down in
the flames. Beverly's first name was
Charles and he was a regular roomer
at the hotel and consequently his
name did not appear on the register,
w-hich was found.
Known to be Saved:
Mark Hemmingway, Ewing, Neb.
E. T. Comer, Elmwood, Neb.
Mrs. C. E. M'ilkins.
Olaf Jernberg, Genoa.
S. A. Andersen, Genoa.
John Pierson, Mead, Neb.
Ajton Wicklund, Mead, Neb.
A. R. Bruce, Broken Bow, Neb.
Dwight Porter, Broken Bow.
O. H. Conrad. Broken Bow.
Yidar Headman, Genoa.
Clovd Athev, Broken Bow.
Grace Burton, Ruthven, la.
Just what caused the blaze never
will be known. It is not far wrong,
however, to say that it originated in
the furnace room in the basement of
the hotel. This plant supplied heat
for the entire building, including the
business houses on the ground floor.
The blaze was first seen by an A
D. T. watchman, who was making his
rounds. This was about 4:45 o'clock,
so far as can be determined. At that
time the flames appeared to be eating
fheir way through the whole structure.
There came a big puff like a muffled
explosion, then death and ruin.
First Warning of Fire.
It was a few minutes before mid
night Thursday night when Sam Mor
ris and M. P. Ryan, policemen, passed
the Dewey on their way to police
headquarters. Sparks were flying from
the chimney at the rear of the house,
and the officers told Jesse D. Noid,
manager, of this fact
An investigation in the furnace
room failed to reveal any fire. Then
Mold turned the house over to Gar
ret E. Veliet, night clerk, and went
to bed.
Veliet was reading a newspaper In
the little office at the head of the
stairs leading to the hotel floor from
the Thirteenth street entrance about
4:45 o'clock when a puff of wind
swirled a dense cloud of smoke into
the room. He was almost sufforcated
before he could arouse Nold.
For God’s sake get up and awaken
some of the people.” Veliet cried to
Nold, as he pounded frantically on the
latter’s bedchamber door. “There’*
a fire in the building.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF,
Coming Events in Nebraska.
March 5 to 15—“Made-in-Nebraska'*
Show, Omaha.
March 11 to 14—Convention Feder
ation Nebraska Retailers, Omaha.
April 4 and 5—Annual Y. M. C. A.
Indoor Athletic meet, Omaha.
A new brick building is being erect
ed at Craig.
More than 1,000 lives were lost in
the mines of Pennsylvania in 1012.
Carl Frahm recently som a hog in
Bloomfield that weighed 730 pounds.
The Aurora Y. M. C. A. membership
has reached 140.
Nine cars of cattle were recently
shipped to Kansas City front Granger.
In the jail at Beatrice there are
three well defined cases of smallpox.
Many arrests have been made at
Fort Crook for bootlegging.
C. A. Dixon, an old resident, died
recently at Blair.
Dr. Heath has returned to his home
in Fairbury from an extended so
journ at Tantpa, Fla.
In the state oratorical contest Belle
vue won first, Creighton second, Cot
ner third and Doane fourth place.
Crofton defeated the Bancroft bas
ketball team on the Crofton field by a
score of 16 to 9.
Judge J. B. Raper has adjuorned dis
trict court at Tecumseh until soma
time in March.
The thirty-third annual convention
of the Burt county Sunday school was
held at Tekamah.
At Silver Creek the question of vot
ing $8,000 bonds for water system is
being discussed.
Richard Allen, a former well known
Nebraska cattle man, died recently at
his home in Boston of pneumonia.
Omaha High school defeated Sioux
City High school at Sioux City, 25 to
14, in a rough game of basketball.
The rural route carriers of Red Wil
low and adjoining counties met in con
vention at Bartley recently.
The seven-year-old son of W. S.
Blanchard of Edgar has a badly brok
en arm from a fall from a pony.
The business men of Brunswick have
organized a company and will build a
new hotel.
The use of liquor by Omaha &
Council Bluffs Street Car company
employes is absolutely forbidden in
an order recently posted.
In the first game ever played be
tween the two schools, Dana college
of Blair defeated the Bellevue college
five by a score of 25 to 13.
The little C-year-old daughter of Ar
thur Lakey, living near Fairbury, was
seriously burned while playing with
matches.
At the time of the recent railway
wreck at Kearney a fireman was in
charge of the engine instead of the
engineer.
Deputy State Bank Examiner Jo
seph Pigman. a resident of Broken
Bow, has purchased the bank at Mc
Grew.
The state board of health has ac
quitted Dr. C. A. Yoder of Elm Creek
of the charge of performing a criminal
operation.
The first auto delivery truck ever
installed at West Point was put in use
this week by the proprietors of a de
partment store.
The city council of Fremont decided
unanimously to place the $40,000 pav
ing bond proposition before the voters
at the spring election.
Governor Morehead announced the
re appointment of F. W. Booth as su
perintendent of the Nebraska School
for the Deaf, located in Omaha.
There will soon be held an election
at Fort Dodge to pass on the question
of issuing $50,000 to be used in the
erection of a new school building.
The Southeast Nebraska Fruit Grow,
ers' association, at a recent meeting
at Auburn, changed its name to the
Eastern Nebraska Fruit Growers’ as
sociation.
According to findings by veteri
naries the horse disease that did much
damage in this state last year, has
again put in appearance in Gage
county.
The dedicatory services for the
new Methodist church in Brock were
held with an address by I,. O. Jones
of Lincoln, president of the Epworth
assembly.
Usually at this season of the year
Scottsbluff has a series of banquets
and dinners, which are in the main
“get together" meetings.
Herman B. Fairchild, one of the
most widely known farmers of Jeffer.
son county, was found dead in a chair
at his home six miles southeast of
Fairbury, near Endicott.
Plans for the new building for the
City National bank at York have been
approved by the directors and stock
holders and contractors are now fig
uring on the work.
About 125 clerical employes cf the
Burlington have left Omaha for Chi
cago, at which place the auditing
headquarters will be located.
Woman suffrage passed the house
committee of the whole at Lincoln,
but under circumstances that practi
cally insures its defeat on third read
ing.
Rev. E. R. Taft, who has be°n pastor
of the Baptist church in Fairbury for
several years, has tendered his resig
nation to take effect April 1. It has
been accepted by the church.
Electric lighting in both stories of
the new Masonic building at Ohiowa
is now assured, the wiring having
been started. This will be the first
buihlirig with electric lights in Ohiowa.
Five young men and one young wom
an were arrested on the charge of
complicity in the highway robbery of
Mrs. John Jensen, the wife of a West
Point business man, which occurred
two months ago at West Point.
Something like 1,300 bills have been
introduced in the legislature now in
session.
Rev. F. W. Leavitt, pastor of Ply
mouth Congregational church, Omaha,
will tour England, France, Holland,
Germany and Switzerland, conducting
a party to the World’s Sunday School
convention in Zurich next July.
The farmers living south of Wy
more have organized the Wymore Ele
vator Lumber and Coal company. A
committee has been appointed to sell
$10,000 worth of stock and practically
half of this amount has been dis
posed of.
WAGES ARE TOD LOW
LEGISLATURE TO TAKE ACTION
ON PACKING HOUSE MATTER.
$9 PER WEEK AS MINIMUM
House Roll No. 442, Alleviating Situa
tion, Unanimously
Recommended.
Lincoln.—Well down in the house
general tile, but not so far down but
tnat many members are keeping an
eye turned in its direction, is a bill
which will shortly attract the sup
port of legislators who believe in pro
gressive economic legislation as well
as in progressive politics.
The bill is house roll No. 442, in
troduced by McCarthy of Greeley
county and unanimously recommended
for passage by the committee on labor.
It provides for a minimum wage for
adults in work shops, factories and
packing houses of 20 cents an hour
or. if the work is contracted by the
week, of $9 a week, overtime to be
paid for at time-and-a-half rates.
The committee’s unanimous recom
mendation, despite employers’ pro
tests, resulted largely from informa
tion in its hands relative to the wages
paid unskilled labor in South Omaha
packing houses. Additional informa
tion on this subject has since been
secured by the special working girls’
investigation committee.
Legislators stood appalled at un
challenged statements that 1,500 men
employed in South Omaha plants
secured only 17 1-2 cents an hour, a
weekly maximum, if by good luck
there were no short days, of only
$8.40. As a matter of fact, it was
shown that the average weekly wage
of 3,u00 unskilled laborers was about
?7.00
Worse than this, the average
weekly wage of women and girls, who
have been employed in increasing
numbers during the last few years,
was shown to be $4.50.
How men could support families on
such paltry sums, even when the wife
and mother aided in the earnings, was
beyond the comprehension of members
of the committee.
The employers' representatives, in
cluding men from the railroads, tele
phone companies and the South Oma
ha packing industries, objected, but
the bill went to the general tile. It
will come before the house sometime
during the next three weeks.
The progressive members, who
have looked up New Jersey’s recent
action jpi attempting a $9.00 minimum
wage for girls, to say nothing of men,
expect it to receive plenty of atten
tion.
Governor Sends Message.
In executive session the senate re
ceived the message from Governor
Morehead announcing appointment of
Henry Gerdes of Falls City, C. H.
Gregg of Kearney and Charles Graff
of Bancroft as members cf state board
of control soon to come into existence.
In accordance with a predetermined
plan, agreed upon at a caucus Kemp
of Nance moved that a committee of
live members be appointed to investi
gate the character and competency of
appointees and to report their find
ings back to senate before action on
confirmation is taken.
Yeiser Given $200.
The claims committee of the house
reported its bill back to the house
carrying appropriations totaling $75,
000. John O. Yeiser was given $200
for his services on the pardon board,
this being all that was allowed for his
claim for $1,200 for this purpose.
House Passes Potts Bill.
The house corporations committee
has recommended for passage the
Potts bill taxing all corporations one
tenth of 1 per cent on the capital
stock representing Nebraska business,
an increase of about $220,000 a year
over the present corporation tax.
Bill Gets Ax In Senate.
The senate's first application of the
ax upon a bill coming before it on the
order of third reading took place
when the Bartling bill requiring rail
roads to man switch engines with full
crews while operating in yards at di
vision points was defeated by a vote
of 14 to 11.
House Passes Lee Bill.
The house has passed the Lee bill
permitting the city council of Omaha
to vote $50,000 for park improvements
and to construct a work house.
Senator Placek Has Pneumonia.
Senator E. E. Placek of Saunders is
very ill with pneumonia at the Lin
coln hotel. Mrs. Placek is with him.
Governor Signs Bill.
Governor Morehead signed house
roll 353, a bill appropriating $50,000
for the state penitentiary deficit.
Franchise Bill Quickly Killed.
Killed and buried in less than fif
teen minutes was the fate of senate
file No. 340, the bill that would have
given electric light free and unregu
lated entry into any city or town in
the state. No person appeared before
the senate committee on roads in sup
port of the measure, and Senator
Heasty, who introduced.it asserted he
did not care much what became of it,
as it was introduced merely by re
quest. Many members joined Senator
Wolz in a successful effort to see that
the measure was quickly slain.
Favors County Ownership.
Over the protests of a big telephone
lobby the senate committee on tele
phones recommended the Fuller
county ownership bill for passage.
Must Pay for Own Bonds.
Upwards of forty state officials
must dig down into their own pockets
for the premiums on their official
bonds The house adopted a commit
tee report, which declared no statuto
ry authority existent for payment of
the premiums by the state, save in
the case of the treasurer.
COOD
DISCUSSION OF GOOD ROADS
Most That Has Been Accomplished In
Thirty Years in Iowa Is Senti
ment—Face Problem.
Gov George W. Clarke, in a mes
sage tc- the Iowa legislature, touching
on good roads, said:
“For thirty years the discussion ot
the good roads problem has been go
ing on in the state. Many of the gov
ernors of the state within that time
have called attention to the question
and some of them have urged con
structive legislation. Some progress
has been made both in the way of bet
ter laws and in the improvement of
the highways, but the most that has
been accomplished is an aroused pub
lic sentiment in favor of better roads
—perhaps in favor of permanent
roads. Iowa will have permanent
roads whenever she wants them. She
will have better rural schools when
ever she wants them. She will not
have either before. Legislation awaits
public sentiment—generally aroused,
organized public demand. The next
great era in the development of west
ern civilization is going to be called
by the historian The Era of Perma
nent Road Iluilding. We are now at
the very threshold of that era. We
are face to face with the problem
No state can longer allow herself to
be handicapped by mud. The econom
ic waste is enormous. Not in the fu
ture can there be such a thing as a
really great up-to-date state without
good, permanent roads. The great
cheapening of the cost of transporta
tion of the markets of the country
waits on permanent roads. The in
stant great increase in the value of
land awaits the coming of the perma
nent road. There can be no complete
solution of the country life problem
in advance of the permanent road.
The consolidated rural school will go
halting and crippled until the perma
nent road passes the door. This is an
ideal that will be realized in the fu
ture. How far distant it is depends
upon the people of the state. This
general assembly ought, it seems to
me, to take hold of the problem with
the end in view to ultimately realize
this ideal. Nothing could contribute
more to the greatness of the state and
the welfare of all of the people. All
that is done hereafter in the improve
ment of our roads ought to be with
the view of permanency. Permanent
culverts and bridges, permanent sys
tems of drainage, permanent estab
lishment of grades—all with the view
Df eventually receiving the permanent
road. With this purpose in view the
law should provide for the appoint
ment of a county engineer. He should
be thoroughly competent and not
necessarily a resident of the county
where appointed. There should also
be created a permanent highway com
mission, composed of expert road men
and engineers with such powers and
duties in the way of the preparation
of plans and specifications, estimates
of costs, advertising for bids and gen
eral supervision and control as may
after careful consideration be deemed
(vise. I can see no reason why pro
vision should not be made for a refer
endum to the people of the question
as to whether bonds of the state
should be issued for the purpose of
raising money for permanent road
building. It would not incur a great
expense to determine whether or not
the people are ready to enter upon
this work which would add more than
anything else to the greatpess of the
state, and it would at least be of
great value in causing universal dis
cussion of the subject which must al
ways precede any movement involving
the change of long established meth
ods and of thought. In the meantime
our road laws, which now exist in a
disconnected and patchwork form,
should be revised, rewritten and
strengthened for the purpose of secur
ing the best possible temporary roads
and for devising methods of adminis
tration looking to the coming of the
permanent road. Selfish interests
clinging to old methods and advan
tages, may be found in covert opposi
tion. Permit me to suggest that you
look carefully to this, as 1 know you
will, to the end that private interests
may not prevail against the common
good.”
Reduce Width of Roads.
The suggestion of the governor of
Iowa that public roads should be re
duced in width is a very sensible one.
The governor proposes to make the
roadway 40 feet wide and turn the
rest of the land back into the farms.
While this would add many thousands
of acres to the tillable land of the
state, the best feature of the plan is
that it would greatly reduce the cost
of keeping the road in good condition.
I never could see the reason for main
taining a 70-foot highway with a little
tract of 10 feet in the middle and 30
feet on each side growing up to weeds.
Considerable Benefit.
If good roads from the producer to
the consumer were general the ben
efits to both would be considerable.
No Fear of Cholera.
Experts of the state agricultural col
lege of Kansas, who recently traveled
through the state on the “Pork Chop"
special, told the formers that they
can now return to hog raising without
fear of loss from cholera. The experi
ments conducted at the college with
serum proved conclusively that the dis
ease can be prevented by vaccination
Efficiency of Automobile.
One thing about the automobile is
its efficiency in helping to secure a
good road.
Dr. Hartman’s Plain Talk to Young Men
My plain talk to young men In my
last article certainly brought out
many responses from young men. I
take this means of answering them
briefly, for the benefit of other young
men who did not write me. One
writer says:
“I was greatly interested in your
talk to young men. I wish I was
strong and well as you describe your
self to be. I am going to begin at
once and follow' your advice and take
care of myself as I ought to. I will
quit the use of all stimulants, tea and
coffee, go to bed early. I will take
the cold water towel bath every morn
ing. I want to live to be old and
useful, like you. And I shall also
keep Peruna at hand, in case of slight
ailments as they may arise. I thank
you In the name of thousands of oth
er young men, like myself.”
To this letter I replied:
My Dear Boy:—I cannot tell you
how much good your letter has done
me. To know that I am arousing
the young men in matters of right
living fills me with gratitude and en
thusiasm. I want to help you. Write
me any time you wish and I will con
sider your letter strictly confidential
and give you prompt reply. Follow
the advice I gave in my article. When
ever you have occasion to consult me
further do not hesitate. Let us be
friends. If you will be obedient to
me as a son ought to be I will be
faithful and true to you as a father
ought to he. Yours sincerely, S. B.
Hartman. M. D., Columbus. Ohio.
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“How many foreign languages can
Jones talk.”
“Well, he says he understands ev
erything his baby says.”
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Adv.
What's the Use?
‘Tt did Jack no good to marry his
stenographer, for she continued the
habit of the office in their home.’’
“How so?”
"When he starts to dictate she takes
him down.”
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That is I.AXATIVE KHollo Ut'lKINK. Look
for the signature of K \\\ i,K<>\ K. Cures a Cold
in Quo Day, Cunts Crip in Two l»nys. 25c.
A lie is a lie, no matter whether
it is white or black.
BOY PAID FOR HIS WHISTLE
Obeyed Father’s Instructions All
Right, but Made No Sort of a
Hit With the Teacher.
It all happened in a wayside village.
She was the village schoolmistress,
prim and proper, but a bad hand at
settling accounts with the local trades
men; he was ten years of age, one of
her pupils, and son and heir of the
village grocer.
“Tommy,” she yelled in class one
morning, “don't you know it's rude to
whistle in the presence of a lady?”
Tommy was not abashed nor chas
tened.
“But dad told me to whistle,” he re
plied.
"Your father told you to whistle.
Tommy?” queried the school teacher,
in considerable doubt.
“Yes’m. He said when he sells you
anything we’ve got to w^histle for our
money.”
Tommy then took up a conspicuous
position in the adjacent corner.
Calumet Guarantees Baking Economy
Have you ever stopped to think just
what "economy” in baking really means?
Some folks seem to have the idea that
saving a little on the cost of the mate
rials—the Hour, eggs, etc.—is economy.
Others are of the opinion that they have
been economical when they buy the low
priced baking powder, and save 10c to 25c.
But both are wrong. For the real econ
omy—the economy that counts—consists in
doing away with the failures that so
often waste far more than is saved in
buying low-priced materials.
And that beyond a doubt is the reason
that Calumet Baking Powder is the favor
ite of millions of cooks. It absolutely
prevents failures—and guarantees suc
cess—which in the end is the same thing
as economy.
Calumet is unfailing—it makes every
baking good—more tasty, more delicious,
more evenly raised—simply because it is
not only pure and wholesome itself—but
so uniform in quality that you ran always
depend upon it. Two World’s Pure Food
Expositions—one at Chicago in 1907. and
the other at Paris. France, in 1912—have
officially pronounced Calumet the best
baking powder made
You Can't Tell.
Interested Lady—Oh, dear, look!
That’s Mr. Rhymer, the celebrated
poet. See how his finger touches his
lip, and how his lofty brow is knit in
thought. Oh, 1 wonder what sweet
morsel of verse he is meditating?
Mr. Rhymer (to himself)—I have to
order sugar from the grocer’s, bee$
at the butcher’s, pay foe last week’s
bread and bring some soothing syrup
for the baby. I wish to goodness Mary
would attend to all these things her
self!
His Idea.
Bill: "Do you know what a plagia
rist is?”
Jill: “Sure; he's a fellow who plays
a joke on the playwright.”
Anyway, the man who follows yout
advice always has some one to blame
if he fails.
Bowels Get Weak
As Age Advances
The First Necessity is to
Keep the Bowels Gently
Open With a Mild
Laxative Tonic
Healthy old age is so absolutely de
pendent upon the condition of the
bowels that great care should be taken
to see that they act regularly. The fact
is that as age advances the stomach
muscles become weak and inactive
and the liver does not store up the
juices that are necessary to prompt
digestion.
Some help can be obtained by eat
ing easily digested foods and by
plenty of exercise, but this latter is
irksome to most elderly people. One
thing is certain, that a Btate of con
stipation should always be avoided as
it is dangerous to life and health. The
best plan is to take a mild laxative
as often as is deemed necessary. But
with equal certainty it is suggested
that cathartics, purgatives, physics,
salts and pills be avoided, as they do
but temporary good and are so harsh
as to be a shock to a delicate system.
A much better plan, and one that
thousands of elderly people are follow
ing, is to take a gentle laxative-tonic
like Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin,
which acts as nearly like nature as is
possible. In fact, the tendency of this
remedy is to strengthen the stomach
and bowel muscles and so train them
to act naturally again, when medicines
of all kinds can usually be dispensed
with. This is the opinion of many
people of different ages, among them
Mr. O. P. Miller, Baroda, Mich., who
writes: “I am 80 years old and have
been constipated for many years. Since
receiving your sample bottle 1 have
procured two 50c bottles and find that
Mr. O. P. Miller.
it is the best remedy I ever used and
does just what you claim for it to the
very letter. I can not recommend it
too highly.”
A bottle can be bought of any drug
gist at fifty cents or one dollar. Peo
ple usually buy the fifty cent size first,
and then, having convinced themselves
of its merits they buy the dollar size,
which is more economical. Results are
always guaranteed or money will be
refunded. Any elderly person can fol
low these suggestions with safety and
the assurance of good results.
If no member of your family has
ever used Syrup Pepsin and you would
like to make a personal trial of it be
fore buying it in the regular way of a
druggist, send your address—a postal
will do—to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 203
Washington St., Monticello, 111., and a
free sample bottle will be mailed you.
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