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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1905
Page
8
Letters on file praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a restoring remedy for women's ills. Physicians and trained nurses report cures across the country, urging immediate action for menstrual, uterine, and nervous complaints to regain health.
Indian Territory grows as a vibrant trade hub and magnet for homeseekers. Despite government delays on statehood and taxation issues, the land attracts settlers with rich agricultural potential and swift development. The future looks promising amid rapid growth and abundant capital.
Henry Soule a cobbler from Hammondsport New York says twenty years ago kidney trouble left him unable to work as pain and urinary disorders waned. After starting Dean's Kidney Pills eight years ago he recovered and has remained well. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY markets the remedy at 50 cents per box.
A book agent boasts a volume with fifty two lectures by fifty two great men one lecture for each week. The citizen replies he is married and has a wife who provides him a lecture every day of the year.
An advertisement extols Cuticura Ointment as the world’s greatest skin cure and emollient, pairing hot baths with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Resolvent Pills for rapid relief from burning and itching humors. It claims effectiveness for infants and children, with testimonials and references to extensive household effects and unrelated notes on European topics.
The article recounts the pope's death announced within minutes, detailing how the bulletin was misdated as 4:04, the rapid relay via telegraph and cable to New York, Havre, London, Paris, and Berlin, and compares international papers. It notes AP's superior coverage versus the London Times and New York Times, and includes Melville B. Stone's commentary on the event's global impact.
The article describes how newsrooms prepared to report the pope’s death, coordinating with Italian officials and Vatican authorities. It details a planned code message to bypass restrictions, using a private line to indicate time of death and a placeholder for missing bond numbers, with Montefiore signatures.
A farmer Mr Dickert near Malindi Siding fought off a lion at his bedroom door. His wife Mrs Dickert struck the beast with a rifle, enabling the man to shoot and kill it. Dickert was badly scratched, with his arm lacerated. Lions have lately haunted the area, with multiple sightings along the railway and near Matetsi where nine lions killed fifteen livestock in daylight.
A historical report outlines Poland's schooling landscape with 127000 square kilometers and 2200 common schools. It notes Warsaw literacy around 73 per hundred, primary enrollment for ages seven to fourteen at 110000, and public schools mainly Russian taught with limited capacity. Jewish and private facilities provide additional capacity in Warsaw and Lwow/Lemberg, Galicia, which has 130000 inhabitants and about thirty fine school buildings.
In a Boston Transcript excerpt Gracie explains why she loves her grandmamma. She recalls how her grandmother disciplined her mother and hopes the same firmness was used on mamma, drawing a cycle of memory and affection within a family.
Tearful exchange where Mrs Nuwed laments being told she was the only girl loved. Mr Nuwed replies he is particular in other things as well as love and tells her to throw those biscuits to the dogs in a Detroit Tribune item.
Gainsborough painted portraits for a living yet landscapes for his own pleasure while living at Hampstead in summer. His love of nature and simple things gave distinction to his work. Born in Sudbury, he studied in London, opened a studio in Hatton Gardens, then Ipswich, then Bath in 1760. He married Miss Margaret Burr and lived simply despite wealth.
A historic telegraph link runs 4,000 miles from London to Tehran using the Wheatstone automatic system, surpassing manual Morse speed. Other feats include a Cape York to Derby circuit 7,246 miles with 11 words per minute and a U S circuit spanning major cities for over two hours transmitting a General Nogi report.
Step in the Right Direction, Representative Games of Tennessee, visits Memphis where a young physician asks if he knows he is actively practicing. Gaines replies yes he saw it in the newspapers. The doctor mentions seventy interments last month compared to prior period, as reported.
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