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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1909
Page
3
A smooth talking agent shows an old farmer a dictionary claiming it is up to date. The farmer questions an appendix, the agent reveals the latest edition has the appendix removed. The farmer buys the big bank note with little hesitation.
Rupert Sargent of Holland Company 4 is cited in a pirate of cy incident noted in a brief item. The report mentions the Pirates of cy and lists Sargent as a named participant in the company context.
A collage of clipped ads and anecdotes features remedies like Wonderful Pile Remedy and Petties Eye Salve, plus a satire on a senator and a note on Spinner’s monument statue plan. It recounts a Treasury veteran’s biography and a Civil War era campaign quip about a stubborn listener who vows to attend every speech.
A New York woman recounts leaving coffee for Postum, claiming heart and stomach troubles vanished after a ten day trial. She says milk and toast diet, then careful meals, aided by Postum, restored her health and energy. The letter promotes Postum with the phrase There’s a Reason and cites ongoing fresh letters.
A coastal escape tale follows a man named Selden who saves Miss Barbara Graham from a wet drop on a treacherous causeway. Their bond grows amid seaside cliffs, a club life, and a New York broker, Rodney Islip, who muses on markets and escape.
Berlin correspondent notes twenty one months with hard labor for a sub way motorman linked to last September’s fatal disaster. The ruling reflects German law demands full punishment for negligence to deter future accidents across state and private railways. The verdict ads moral weight to the system, contrasting with other nations’ approaches.
The Des Moines plan, approved by Iowa lawmakers in 1907, replaces mayor and aldermen with a five member city commission overseeing departments such as public affairs finances public safety and streets. Report says the system has improved finances policing and services with a $20 000 surplus in the second year and overall cost savings despite higher pay for commissioners.
Dr L C Howard discusses gipsy moth dispersal suggesting unknown vectors may carry isolated colonies into woods away from roads. Other items cover Maumbury Rings discoveries with Roman amphitheater remains and Neolithic flint workshop, a dating debate on Christ birth, and high altitude air experiments plus color fastness testing by Frusher.
A Life magazine excerpt argues a tiered morality for wealth. It claims that millionaires with over 100 million should live honestly, those with 50 to 100 million semi honest, and those with 10 million to 50 million may commit minor frauds until bettered. Above 50 million wealth should prompt philanthropy.
The Berlin sculptor Prof Mugen proposes earth houses built of riveted steel on a rocking foundation to endure quakes. furniture could be fixed for stability if motion grows violent. The odd remarks include vaudeville humor about a husband and a wife, with scattered fragments from a Cleveland Leader desk.
A fragmentary, humorous scene shows Sherlock spying through kitchen windows and noting his wife’s thirty days away as dishes reveal evidence. The page then blends unabashed ads for Doan’s Kidney Pills Sloan’s Liniment and a quip about a street preacher awaiting an injunction from Montgomery Ward in Chicago Tribune style.
An 1900s advertisement warns against salves containing mercury for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co of Toledo. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and cautions readers to buy genuine product from reputable physicians. Also includes Kemp's Balsam for coughs and Allen's Foot-Ease foot powder ads.
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