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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1906
Page
4
Food containing alum baking powder carries alum into the stomach unchanged, scientists state. They assert such food is partly indigestible and unhealthy, stressing the potential risks to health and urging caution in use.
A Moroccon group visited the near St Johns in Indiana Harbor rail area and brought back peat soil samples from a bottomless sink hole. The deposit is a peat bog not an underground lake, light brown and light when dry, burns slowly with intense heat, but its depth is unknown and borings to thirty five feet found no solid limits. The bog has caused railroad upheavals and expense due to surface weight shifts.
New Swinburne verse for Queen's Carol, a Christmas book aiding the unemployed fund, is cited by the New York Times. The rest of the text notes a Y M C A building at Port Leavenworth, Kansas, described as the world’s largest military post gift of $45,000 by an unnamed benefactor.
Beginning February 15 and continuing to April 7 the Minne Apollo and St. Louis B A plan to offer reduced one way tickets to California Oregon Washington British Columbia Utah Montana Idaho and Old Mexico at 15 percent below regular fare Two tourist cars run weekly to San Francisco and Los Angeles via Kansas City and the Santa Fe system and via Omaha Denver and the Scenic Route through Colorado Agents for details or address A B Cutts G P Z A Minneapolis Minn 873
A discussion argues that male fashion has long featured skirts or frock-like garments rather than starkly masculine trousers. An anecdote about St Louis, famed warrior king, suggests gendered dress shifts reflect social norms, with historical European attire showing men and women wearing similar robes until distinctions arose through war and hunting roles.
A fabletelling of two maidens who pursue a good young man. One is fair and stylish, the other plain. the plain maiden wins him after social flirtations and conversations about wisdom. He marries her on an automobile European wedding tour, while the beautiful girl loses his favor, hinting moral about reading human nature.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes that John Paul Jones, famed as Paul Jones and leader of the Bonhomme Richard, is seen as a notable yet controversial figure in Britain. It contrasts British views of his sea feats and ships with lingering judgments on his bold actions and character.
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt humorously notes farmlike advice and odd observations. It warns against heavy cow feeding before calving, jokes about hens returning to coops, and urges clean hog troughs. A stray line about a bull entering a scene and an escape to stockyards adds a whimsical, rustic tone.
The garbled note mentions a boy named Harry breaking a college contest record and a referee or spectator asking about repair costs and a new item after a race. It is unclear and incomplete with several garbled names and phrases.
In December 1744 Franklin began publishing what he called Poor Richard’s Almanac. It quickly gained immense popularity with three editions sold in the first month and an average annual sale of about 10,000 copies over twenty-five years. To meet demand, October press runs sometimes occurred to stock remote colonies by year’s start. The work was translated into nearly all languages, including French and German, and contained witty puns and sage counsel from Franklin.
A description of a Chinese flag design features pale yellow field with a red sun in the upper left corner. A fierce Chinese dragon dominates the flag with a red and white belly, green back with knobs, standing on two hind paws. The dragon's five-toed feet, arched neck, and wide open mouth suggest it may swallow the sun.
A mosaic of items from a late 19th or early 20th century paper covers a town’s growth notes. It mentions a new town between Town Falls and Hampton on a Des Moines line, survey work on Grant township in Franklin county, and railway business openings along a five-town stretch. It also advertises Great Western Railway homeseekers, ticket dates, and discounted fares, plus a subscription notice and Niagara Falls preservation action in Canada.
The notice outlines Central Ticket Agency sales from DuBuque Iowa for missionary convention trips to Port Dodge and other routes. It lists weekend and weekday sale dates through March and April, with various distance based rates including home seekers and settlers options to Minnesota North and South Dakota Manitoba and Western Canada. Contact A J Phelps for particulars.
Oath by Frank J Cheney of F J Cheney & Co declares loyalty to Hall's Catarrh Cure and promises one hundred dollars for each catarrh case cured or not cured. Notary A W Gleason swore the statement on December 6 1886. Advertisement notes internal remedy claims and trial offers, with mention of Hall's pills for constipation and various unrelated jokes and notices.
A dialogue from newspapers contrasts how households treat cooks. Mrs Green asks if a cook is treated as family, while Mrs Brown insists she is merely an honored guest. The exchange shifts to a joke about apologies, noting a sweeping remark and a correction to an insult.
A Washington Star quip defines success as making enough noise about achievements to overshadow failures. The Rochester Post-Express notes 16,800,000,000 total, with one injury not resulting in death.
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