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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1910)
Henry C. Smith LANDS & LOANS V_ r-7-% "240 acres well improved, 1J miles from Depot in Kas. Good spring Best of terms. Will take 40 acres as part payment, balance long time at low interest. 200 acres 1 miles from depot, Richardson county. Nebraska Good buildings and land Will take 40 or 80 acres as part payment 160 acres upland, 1 mile from depot. Richardson county, Nebraska. 512,000. 160 acres Johnson county, Nebraska 80 rods to church and school. Best of terms. Might rent 107 acres near Brownville, Nebraska 80 acres j^-mile from Falls City high school. 640 acres, $*,000 improvements Also 640 acres adjoining. Will take 180acres a- part payment. Fine running water. A No 1 opportunity. ^loan. QUACK! OUACK! QUACK! DR MORSMAN DISCUSSES THE FAKE PHYSICIAN •For Ways that Arc Dark He s Got the Heathen Chinae Basted King of Crafters. It is an olii saw that says, "dis tance lends enchantment to the view.' It must be true. On no other ground can I explain the large medical "mail order" business. The quacks get rich coaxing hard dollars out of foolish pockets, while the honest, edu cated doctor al home plods along to a bare competence The educated man ought to be a match for an ignorant one, but he Isn't in this in stance because with Ignorance goes cupidity and tinscrupulousness. The educated physician will not stoop to the meanness of misrepresentation, while the quack revels in it. It is ids slock in trade, lie isn't fettered by either knowledge or ethics. For every disease there are "sure-cure" doctors, il matters not how incurable or chronic the medical fraternity have pronounced it. There is nothing in curable to him but an empty pocket. And the more chronic the case the better, as long as he can get some thing out of the pocket. Isn't it strange that people will place confidence in a man they never saw becaust In his own advertising he says ho Is a "doctor" and can cure them? The very fact that he promises a euro brands him as a quaek, and the man who believes him and sends him money is the fool killer's mark. This claim brands him as a knave or ignoramus also; be cause the educated physician dare not promise a cure without qunlatfica tlons. If he is ignorant, distrust him If lie is a knave, slum him. He is probably both. These' men are thieves and vultures,preying up on the unfortunate. They know they can not cure. They wouldn't if they could Well men don't “pul up." Their motto Is “keep 'em sick." Many an invalid has lost, not only his money, but valuable time philan dering with these scamps. Does any one send money from here to fatten the quacks? Ask the express agents. I.) every express office in the coun ty you will find packages of “valu able” un i (Heine from the quacks that have fail.'I of delivery. Of course in such instances the "doctor" gladly pays return charges, doesn’t he? Not that any express agent ever heard of. The stuff isn't worth the charges; it is “valuable" only in tlte advertise ment. Most of these quacks have sanitari ums or laboratorrles, at least they * iy so; even publish pictures of them i> the'r advertising. Fine, impres sive buildings; wide lawns and beauti ful surroundings. Some of these nave oeen run down uy investigators and even they were found to be fakes or oven pied by some one else. As a class, they do not Invest heav ily in tangible property. They might ha\e to run to cover in ease of a damage suit, and impedimenta of that character would be troublesome. The postal department has issued many fraud orders against these fakirs but they hob up again under another name. Most of them are shrewd enough to keep within the let ter of the law. There are a few of these fakirs who do own property and even sani tarioms. They are men of substance Native town patriotism is the mother of home success. Good things to sell, proper | publicity in this paper and stick-toitiveness win buyers in this vicinity—buyers mean money, money brings every , thing to your door. :: :: :: i,Copyright, law. by \V. S. L' J In tin ir community mid quote banks for reference, but they are quacks just the same and hau> made their money out of the credulity of the gtilllbles. Tin* so-called "cancer institute," "cousuin^jou sanitariums,” “X-ray Hospitals." "Inebriate Cures,'’ "Kin sen Kay Colleges,"—are almost all, if not absolutely all, rank frauds. Kven the Illustrious Koch and Ilroca have had their honored names stolen and dragged In the mire by thesej people. Witness —"The Koch Con sumption Cure" and the Andrea Hro ea treatment." There is the "Phos phozone treatment" and “Tuberculo zlme Cure" and many other high Bounding names to befuddle the pub lic. Then there are the vicious "habit cure institutes," that cure by giving the victim the same drug lie has been using, and only confirm him in his vice and keep him paying tribute as long as possible. They all ask you to write them. They take a personal interest in your case. They will write you long con fidential letters and prove to your dissatisfaction that you've “got ’em bad.” The shorter they are on med ical knowledge, the longer they are on correspondence. Some of these vultures renlly are doctors—more’s the pity. Doctors \\ lie have forgotten the honorable precepts of their alma mat er and are prostituting their profes sion for money. Then there is the traveling doctor. Head his claims and then wonder why he travels. If one-half his as sertions were true he would be so much sought in his own locality he would have no time for traveling. What is his reason for traveling about from place to place? The reason is that there are not. dupes enough at home. Why give these fellows good money instead of giving it to the upright physician at home? Because the quack promises more and the credulous hope he can fulfill these promises. lie can't. His promises are not worth what it cost to print them They are nothing but bait to catch suckers with. When Mr. Suck er gets seriously ill, so ho can’t get out of bed. he sends for the local physician, but if he is able to get around and nibble at one of these liver-baited advertisements, he sends his money away and gets his name put down on the “fool lists" that these fellows buy and sell and swap with each other. Perhaps I offend some one by these statements, but I am giving you plain, honest talk. Mr.Sucker, and as I am not practicing medicine it doesn't make any differ ence to me what kind of medical gamble you lose your money on. Go to your local medicine man with your troubles. He will be honest with you. lie won't promise you the earth, because he doesn't own it. When you are tempted to “blow" yourself on a stranger, hide your poeketbook pending investigation. Look out for the advertising “spec ialist." Where there is one genuine, there are two or more imitations. It any one advertises to diagnose your case by mail and asks for a list of symptoms, stop right there and throw the letter or advertisement in the fire. Think twice before you write to any advertiser and three times befort you write to a stranger who claims to be a doctor. A MORSMAN, M D. Morsman Dru£ Co. Storage. We can store your household goods until you get a house. Phone 396 or call at the warehouse of lleck & Wamsley, one block from t lie Hurling ton depot. New Shoe Repairing Shop In connection with our Shoe Store we have in stalled a Shoe Repairing Shop, and have in charge a first-class, up-to-date workman. Bring in your old shoes and have them fixed up at reasonable prices. Half Soles 50& 65c Heels 25c The best leather used in all repairing Home Itore THE COIRS AND GOERS HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TO YOU AND ME. What Your Friends and Their Friends Have Been Doing the Past Week. —The Candy Kitchen for brick ice ■ream. II. C. Smith was an Auburn visitor Tuesday. Max Hartman went to Humboldt on Tuesday. Mrs. VVm. Boyd is in Lincoln visit ing friends. Mrs. W. C'. Brooks is visiting her parents at Pawner1 City. Tom flyan and wife of Dawson vis iter! in Falls City Tuesday. —Have you seen the beautiful pir Inres which 10. Landrigan is selling at cost.. Miss Helen Burehard lias returned from her extended trip to Oklahoma and Kansas points. Dilts. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Prank Dills died Sunday morning and was la Id to rest in Steele cemetery in the afternoon. Quoted From Dr. W. Hargraves. The battleship Maine cost $4,000,000. She was blown up in Havana Harbor. Two hundred six ty American sailors went down with her. If this government should build a like* ship every day and man it with 200 American boys, and Spain should blow her to atoms and our hoys to eternity every night, the cost in lives and money would not equal that of the legalized saloon.—Dr. \V. Hargraves. Thirty-Secona Passenger. The thirty-second passenger boarded the street car and paid his fare. When tin' conductor rang up this fare, the new passenger peered up at the fare register a moment, then turned to the man next to him: "Did ye see phwat he did?" "No. wlmt?" "Oi gave him a nickel an’ he rang up *52 clnls!" -Sunday Magazine R R. ROBERTS IDHLNT'IST' Office over Kerr’s Pharmacy Office Phene 260 Residence Phone 271 EDGAR R. MATHERS DENTIST Phones: Nos. 177, 217 Sam’l. Wahl, Building GRAND OPENING OF REGULAR SEASCN KERR’S AIRDOME TWO WEEKS, BEGINNING Monday Night, June 27th THE DOROTHY REEVES STOCK COMPANY Change of Play Nightly. A Dollar Show at 10 &. 20c. Opening Bill, “THE PRICE” DOORS OPEN AT 8:00 P. M CURTAIN RISES AT 8:30 P. M. AND ORCHESTRA RETURN THIS YEAR FOR A FULL WEEK AT THE * Falls City Chautauqua August 6th to 14th, 1910 a [ 1st Door North City Hotel Lyman Millinery Stock To be Sold at the Cost of Materials The Lyman Millinery Stock has been turned over to the undersigned to be sold at most any old price. The stock is new, very well bought and is all of the very newest style. Every woman needs an extra hat or so, especially since they may be had for so little. If you need a flower to beautify an old bonnet, a piece of velvet, or anything in the millinery line, this is THE BEST CHANCE OF YOUR LIFE TO GET IT. Trimmed Hats will be sacrificed. Over a hundred of them to go—THE PRETTIEST STYLES OF THE SEASON. SALE NOW ON. Don't Overlook this Chance to Buy Millinery at the N Bare Cost of Raw Materials F. L. BRITTAIN, in Charge ]
