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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1902
Page
8
A fragmented 19th century ad urges readers to seek Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for health guidance. It touts her experience and free advice, claiming genuine care from a trusted healer and promising help for those who are ill.
A fragment from New York Weekly notes an amateur company’s performance described with mixed humor. It mentions a dislike of tragedies and the affective pull of sympathy, likening the show to a circus and hinting at light, varied reception by audiences.
A fragment from a periodical page shows a dialogue about a minister and marriage prospects, followed by an advertisement for Allen's Foot Ease powder promising to ease tight shoes and treat corns and bunions. It also includes a brief rural exchange about choosing a profession, with a boy preferring to be a professional ball player.
The fragment hints at a lineage with a first daughter wed to a poet and a third to a railroad magnate. It notes compensation and a hint of a Korean or Arabic name Dimapletoi and refers to a source quoting a “huabad” backing the eldest two. The text is garbled and offers no clear event or date.
Fragmentary remarks discuss the prototype elephant with fur, mammoth depictions, and early art. It cites experts and cites the New York Times on dating cave pictures to around 20,000 years ago, noting civilization and animal use in prehistoric days.
A patron asks why pay 150 for a windpump when a good cow costs 152. The milkman replies that the pump saves trips to the barn and avoids inspections on feed, implying practical long term benefits. The Baltimore American notes the argument as an illustration.
A Philadelphia Times note recalls a judge escorting a visitor to Philadelphia. As they neared the penitentiary the visitor asked about a new distillery. The judge replies that it is a rectifying plant, not a distillery, highlighting a local industry quip.
A fragmented reminiscence shows Grandmother Wheeler moving from a rural setting to her son Wellington Wheeler’s city residence. Florence leads the plan to adapt the old house with era furnishings, while Grandmother finds comfort in her familiar room and belongings, including the blue wall paper and the Maltese cat, amid the railroad relocation.
Fragmentary OCR describes 100 improved farms with 80 being in Missouri and mentions large acreages, climate, corn and bean yields, and districts. Names and precise locations are unclear. The text hints at profitable farming areas and high output per acre, amid scattered figures.
The saying notes that prosperity shifts control to wives while males, pressed by struggle, become passive. It contrasts economic ease with the harsh reality of earning a living, suggesting gendered shifts in responsibility during tough times.
A Mrs X Schnedder of Chicago testifies that after failing remedies she used Peruna since January 1901 and recovered from systemic catarrh with heart palpitations and weakness. The ad quotes Dr Hartman offering a free catarrh book and urging women to seek Peruna for female complaints. Congressman Joseph B Crowley endorses Peruna as a tonic and cure for nervous trouble.
Two friends discuss a brick building bearing J G Brigge Co Lobneco Manufacturers and plug tobacco. Wahil berg of Chicago afflicted with liver and kidney disease credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with saving his life after initial decline and subsequent steady improvement and recovery.
A brief, fragmented clipping shows a domestic quarrel over a dog bite involving Mrs Skinbone and Mrs Jones, with a humorous aside about Willie and Scarlet fever. References to Glasgow, Piso's Cure for Consumption, and a Brooklyn street scene appear, plus an old man musing about monkeys and an apiary.
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