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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1903
Page
3
A Success magazine article notes the immense funds controlled by U S life insurance companies, detailing 67 leading firms with securities surpassing 1.5 billion dollars. It compares to 1,500 banks, as premiums and investment returns support policyholder payouts, operations, and large reserves.
Dr H Carrington Bolton describes Tycho Brahe wearing multiple silver noses after a duel and loss of his own. Brahe had ten noses cast, one reportedly kept in a German museum until its disappearance in the early 1800s.
A French investigator conducts experiments with electric current to induce anesthesia. After testing on animals he applies the method to humans using moistened electrodes on the forehead and lower back. At a voltage of 50, complete inhibition of speech occurs, with the subject's voice first lost.
An advertisement explains that blood forms in bone marrow and spleen and that Scott's Emulsion feeds these organs with fats and liver oil to improve pale blood. It targets pale schoolgirls and invalids, claiming the product strengthens blood production and offers a free sample.
The passage describes a test where stimulation suppresses other motor senses, causing a perceived nightmare as faculties fade. The heart remains unaffected while breathing tightens slightly. Current builds to maximum over about five minutes, then upon switch-off the subject awakens immediately with a sense of invigoration.
A new hat design uses two clockwork mechanisms to salute Isdies automatically. A fatigued man can tilt his head to trigger the hat to rise and bow, then return to position. The wearer must wind the hat nightly like a watch.
President Harris of Amherst cites a western miner tale to show language varies by region. The rough miner laid to rest with a simple stone bears the inscribed line about Bil Jenkins dying on June 12, 1901 and angels doing their duties in a dialect form.
In the Valkland islands a curious natural phenomenon appears as stones anchored by strong roots resembling a forest. These weathered blocks grow like trees in a polar wind harsh climate where erect trees fail but these peculiar blocks form a living stone forest that is hard to convert into fuel due to grainless, twisted woody fibers.
A widow in Belleview Manitoba receives an egg bearing a note from a lonely Liverpool warehouseman aged 42. He replies with a photograph and letter, inviting meeting about companionship. A cable arrives saying Come out, and the lonely pair meet and end their loneliness. Also reports on Rev Dr Ryan arriving in San Francisco and Chinese insurrection fears. Northern China seen as hostile to foreigners, while southern China shows friendliness and openness to modern ideas.
The municipality of Taro in Chile seeks to transform the town into a second London. Over the past decade substantial funds have been used to replicate London streets and street names.
The government statistician estimates U S internal commerce last year at 20 billion dollars, up from 2 billion fifty years ago. U S manufactures nearly double Britain and Ireland and about equal to France Germany and Russia combined.
A New York Sun report quotes a motorman on proper notice to stop at crossings and the risks of damp days for passengers and crew. It also recounts a London Publishers’ Circular tale about Mark Twain asking a 50 percent discount, a bookseller’s witty reply, and a string of late 19th century ads for remedies and products.
A young lawyer uses telegraphy to propel his career, receiving multiple messages across venues from hotel to jail. He plans a transoceanic voyage with daily wireless notices, aiming to stay in the spotlight despite costs. One Sunday a five word message in church drew a dramatic exit and an impression.
Nov 24 report from Shanzhai notes foreign garrisons retreating with Japanese soldiers first to pull back. Fragmented items include court chatter by Judge Wayback and Dank Howker, plus assorted ads and poetry fragments about remedies and products like One Minute Cough Cure and Rocky Mountain Tea.
A Bay Island merchant, James Prendergast, praises Chamberlains cough remedy after his daughter recovered from a severe cold with chest pain in two days. He asserts seven years of family use and attributes prevention of pneumonia to the remedy sold by all druggists.
A note from W. Wililamcoo of Amherst Va says he suffered lumbago for over a year. After trying many remedies, Chamberlain's Pain Balm provided complete relief. Sold by all druggists.
A Iowa mother credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with saving her child after severe croup left him unable to breathe. She describes giving the medicine every ten minutes until he coughed up phlegm, believing the bottle saved his life. Also notes cures for piles and warnings about opiate-containing syrups.
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