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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1905
Page
3
Scotland leads Europe in multiple birth rates with 1625 twins and 21 triplets born in a year. The country displays a higher male birth ratio at 104 males per 100 females, while many adult women travel south. One year records show 678 deaths among ages 90 to 100.
Vu of Tennessee recalls cure from rheumatism after two days of Dodd's Kidney Pills. D. Hilton credits the remedy for ending back hip and leg pain. He claims two days after the first dose the pain vanished and never returned. The ad promotes kidney health as the source of uric acid removal.
Fragmented OCR text discusses higher commercial education in Germany and its benefits for bankers and merchants. It contrasts technical and experiential learning with organized commercial schooling and notes efficiency and information needs. Included are assorted fables and a parlor scene dialogue fragment.
An Oakland woman describes drastic relief after quitting coffee and switching to Postum Food Coffee. She recounts nervousness and stomach woes easing in days, regaining strength to attend a San Francisco parade. The ad promotes The Road to Wellville and Postum’s benefits, with Battle Creek, Michigan as the producer.
The narrator and fellow travelers resume the train after a minor derailment as two vans are found. Lord Varuskiar reveals his grand position on a Chinese railway, while Baron Weissschnitzerdorfer races to recover missing papers. The voyage proceeds toward Pekin with exams, officials, and a tense mood.
Travelers at the frontier face strict verification of documents as a Chinese administration enforces visa formalities. Lucid details describe officials, uniforms, and the tense atmosphere around the inspection of passports, with a mix of Russian, Tiflis, Uzun Ada, and Celestial authorities.
An American clergyman, Rev. Mathaniel Morse of Boston, is described as one of the honest Bible distributors traveling as a merchant. The account portrays him as a Yankee missionary, keen in his dealings.
An account describes a train moving on a Chinese railway drawn by a Chinese engine and operated by a Chinese driver. The voyage includes a risk of collisions on the road, and among the passengers is Maruskiar, a senior company official.
The narrator travels from Kaehgar toward Pamir, noting horizons and distant peaks. Amid conversations with fellow travelers and odd notes from Dr Tie-King, he muses on travel hazards, likening life on the railway to a Great Trunk line. He cites plans to cross Ya manyar on a wooden bridge and reports Yanghi Hissar and Iizil stations with ferruginous soil.
In a Yorkshire fishing village, women are described as clear-skinned, bright-eyed, and strong, with several children. They work hard beside their husbands, launching boats at sunset in summer and managing nets, tar processing, and early morning bait digging in winter, all while maintaining contentment and devotion to family.
A four by three inch pocket typewriter promises mobile note taking without leaving the pocket. The item is pitched as ideal for journalists and authors in tight spaces. A humorous quip from a dentist about painless dentistry appears, with a Chicago Tribune sentiment noting the $2 charge for two minutes of work.
The Chicago Record-Eerah notes a belief in magic in art as a power that moves men to love art even when they are cross and ignorant of its meaning. Clay modeling in schools is condemned by doctors as worse than slates for transmitting infectious disease.
Weekly crop report shows generally unfavorable conditions through May 22 with heavy rains delaying fieldwork in eastern districts and on the north Pacific coast. Frosts, cool nights, and lack of sunshine hinder germination and growth, while corn planting continues with replanting needed in several states including Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa and Nebraska.
Pulford D. 8, Berry of Savanna dies by his own hand in a barn loft after years of domestic trouble linked to the Berry murder. He rose from poverty to wealth in Carroll county and his death ends a town’s link between the two deaths.
Fire devastates Vlora Misa business district with damage estimated near 200000 dollars. New York Aldermen approve inquiry into barring of children from flats by Jandlorda amid rising housing concerns.
A former locomotor ataxia patient, James H. Watkins of Albany, says Williams Pine Pills cured his condition after years of weakness and loss of balance. He reports improved circulation, strength, and mobility after six boxes, with only occasional calf twitching remaining. The article cites doctors and the patient’s account of symptom onset and recovery.
The Bard Retoria jokes with the editor of a rural weekly about trading poems for a year's subscription. The editor dismisses the poems as worthless, while the Bard retorts that the editor would not trade them otherwise.
A New York Sun analysis cites President Samuel Spencer of Southern Railway arguing there is no division over stopping secret or unjust discriminatory practices. It notes the value of just discrimination under complex commercial needs and cites the International Railway Congress on flexible yet non-arbitrary tariffs. The piece references Walker D. Hines’s Senate testimony about fixed government rates potentially increasing temptations to depart from published rates.
In a brief exchange, Walker asks Ryder for a five dollar loan after confirming attendance at a recent event. Ryder questions the request, and Walker affirmatively states the purpose of borrowing the money.
An old advertisement describes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for feet to relieve tight shoes and burning feet. It claims to cure corns bunions swelling and sweating and directs buyers to shoe stores to purchase for 28 cents.
A fragmentary 1901 note features a witty exchange about hair and character, then a Mrs. 8. 1 Borden endorsement of Piso's Cure for Consumption, followed by a wool price joke about a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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