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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1900
Page
8
An advertisement asserts To the Bottom is a guaranteed purely vegetable remedy without minerals. It promises cures for cancer eczema serofila rheumatism contagious blood poison tetter boils carbuncles sores and more and offers free books by the Swift Specific Company of Atlanta Georgia.
The message warns readers not to misjudge The Worn advertising value or risk financial loss. It argues against spending in a medium with lower value per dollar and emphasizes the necessity of advertising in THE WORLD to reach trade audiences and avoid costlier outcomes.
An extended inquiry into Terre Haute police board conduct prompted Governor Mount to declare no more delays and to impose severe steps if police instruction is not followed. The meeting involved board members O. B. Raffy and John Barbazette and criticized by Anti-Saloon League and Good Citizens League reps, with charges pressed by Dr. R. B. Wollensworth and Edgar Dick.
An Edinburgh lawyer and confirmed somnambulist recounts two dreamlike experiences. In one, sleep, he writes a complete legal brief overnight, then finds it perfectly solved the next morning. In the other, a railway journey triggers a vivid dream of being trapped in a steamer’s anchor chamber, but he awakens on a train couch, later recovering and losing his sleepwalking habit.
A long excerpt describes the Alaska driftwood haven between Yakatag and Kynk islands as a grand, centuries old phenomenon. Logs arrive from Japan, China, India, California and beyond, with some eight feet in diameter and trees up to 150 feet long stranded, petrified, or coalified inland. The beach hosts ruby sand rich in gold particles, and the driftwood, some barkless and whitish from salt immersion, forms towering piles up to 20 feet high in places.
The British ship County of Edinburgh went ashore near Point Pleasant close to Manasquian life saving station at about 10 o'clock. The vessel is hard and fast aground and is expected to break up. The crew were rescued by the life savers using the breeches buoy.
Hartford City Feb 14 The C H Hubbard glass factory the oldest Blackford county industry shut last month is being repaired and will be converted into a chipped glass plant. Local authorities say the move aims to revive employment and capitalize on local raw materials.
A narrator reads from a cluttered study shelf and contrasts grand, polished works with untidy tomes that stir simpler, humbler thoughts. The speaker rejects grand volumes in favor of the modest, personal volumes that reveal humble beauty and human life.
Washington February 19 Chairman Hepburn of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee backs the Hepburn bill to build a Nicaragua canal to give the United States a toll free waterway for naval and merchant use. The report argues the canal would advance American trade, with potential discrimination against foreign shippers and vessels. It rebuts the Clayton Bulwer treaty as obsolete and frames the canal as the shortest route to the east, highlighting Britain’s control of Suez and Gibraltar.
An ad claims deafness from catarrh can only be cured by constitutional remedies, not local applications. It cites the Bustaghian Tube condition, promises one hundred dollars for uncurable cases, and directs readers to Kod. Canney & Co. in Toledo, with sales through Toneists and Trips Family Pits advertised.
A fragmentary notice outlines round trip tickets on specific January February and April dates in 1900 via BL to Toews Minnesota and South Dakota. It mentions single fare 82.00 to many northern western and southern cities, with sales through BLO R. & N. representatives or G. Parmera A. G. P&T. A. in Goda? Rapids Iowa.
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