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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
8
The piece describes children's clothing trends with linen frocks and pique, tailored outfits for girls and boys, and accessories like a runabout Angerle hat. A domestic scene follows where gambling money funds a dress, with a wife pleading her husband desist from gambling after earning the funds.
A New York Times piece notes a downtown firm supplying veneer logs for white oak yellow poplar and ash from Virginia West Virginia and the South. It details long truck and rail hops, log grades of ten to sixteen feet and up to thirty six foot trunks, and shipments to New York Boston and Germany Spain. The article also recounts curious legal cases and anecdotes on ownership costs and etiquette from Europe to Canada.
A Berlin businessman paid out thousands to reclaim a postage stamp in court and did not recover it. A Missouri watermelon case ended in costly dispute after seed from a farm grew across a rail fence. Both cases show how small matters can spiral into expensive legal battles.
Fragmented squib from the Kansas City Times cites a quip about the President's ears being peculiar through the phrase Loeb. The piece riffs on optimism and office desk canards with skewed language and garbled phrasing, mentioning women and unclear social judgments.
Mrs Maria Sipfle of Velona Mont reports three years of back pain and kidney trouble ending after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She says four boxes provided a complete lasting cure and notes the medicine is sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box.
Fragmented clippings describe a child with a severe eruption and sores, claimed to be cured after using the Cuthern Remedies within five days. Noted as a 1906 Bakersfield California reader letter. Several unrelated product mentions follow, including eye cures and electrical lighting notes.
An article claims deafness from catarrh of the mucous lining and Eustachian tube inflammation can only be cured by constitutional remedies, rejecting oral applications. It offers a catarrh cure with a one hundred dollar reward for any cure not achieved, and promotes free circulars from F J Cheney Co. Also mentions Hall’s Pile Car and a promoter for Boraxo water color pictures.
A quirky morning note recalls a sleeper's alert that only four rings mattered before missing a train. A potato based substitute for wood in pencil making is noted as cheap and easily sharpened. An agriculture building for the University of Maine is planned at roughly 35000 dollars. Mrs Wiglow's soothing syrup for teething is advertised for gums and wind colic. A surgeon jokes about billing timing during operations.
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