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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1905
Page
1
A Northern Wisconsin man credited George Ade with helping his digestion by providing humorous reading. He recalled reading Ade in a city bookstore to aid post-meal digestion, noting the humor improved his condition despite critics.
Moravia New York June 6 Benjamin Wilson praises Dodd's Kidney Pills for saving his wife who suffered four years with sugar diabetes and rheumatism. Doctors said she could not live as weight fell from 200 to 130 pounds before starting the pills. She soon weighed 190 and regained health and strength.
Mrs Youngbride sobs about a late night with a young Englishwoman, accusing her husband of deception after overhearing him in sleep talk. He denies the claim, while she cites a quarrel involving a billiards episode and a misfired ball as the alleged precipitating event, per the Cleveland Leader account.
Instructions describe boiling ivory soap and soda to clean lace collars then rinsing in hot water with gum arabic and tea. It suggests drying and ironing on white muslin, with a moderately hot iron, attributed to Eleanor R Parker.
The article notes horn and related materials like tortoise shell and elk horn were pressed into portraits from about 1750 onward, with fated impressions of figures not always living at the time. It highlights John Osborn of Amsterdam in the 1600s and Coke O Brisset in early 1700s England as leading artists, mentions German wooden pieces and a Louis X. depiction, and says many fine pieces are set in silver in London Queen.
A testimonial extols Grape-Nuts as a cure for stomach and kidney ailments from youth meat-heavy dieting. It claims heartburn, indigestion, and fatigue vanished after switching to the cereal, boosting nerves, brain function, and work capacity. The ad invites readers to read The Road to Wellville and mentions Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
The journey continues through Pamir edges toward Tekin as a treasure valued at fifteen million accompanies the train. Passengers debate risk and delay, while guards and detectives monitor the imperial trove aboard the Grand Transasiatic line, amid hints of an impending marriage celebration.
The group learns a treasure worth fifteen million francs is being moved to the Son of Heaven. Secret guards, Chinese and Persian escorts, and suspicions swirl as Pan Chao and Ki-Lsang loom in the unfolding plot amid desert dangers and political intrigue.
On the Transasiatic line progress is noted from Shanghai to Fou-Tcheou and beyond. General Pevtsoff’s meteorological observatory is at Nia as the train carries a mix of passengers, mostly Chinese. Eph nnell asks me to witness his marriage to Miss Blued aboard the train, with Rev Morse officiating after a brief delay for formalities.
A 150-year-old rug made of seventy-seven scalps is owned by a Stroud Oklahoma iwi member. The pieces, representing white red and black peoples, are said to cure trouble and guide departed spirits. Seen annually at the April wild onion feast, the piece draws attention as an extraordinary artifact.
A Houbraken tale suggests Van Dyck asked Hals to paint him during a brief visit, and Hals then painted Van Dyck in two hours. The story ponders whether the two portraits could exist and reflects on the artists’ differing styles and approaches.
A humorous exchange unfolds with Johnny Bumpernickle asking what it means when a paper says further comment is unnecessary. The elder answers that it signals the writer lacks another point to make.
The Atlantic wins the Kaiser's 5,000 cup in an 8,003 nautical mile Atlantic crossing from Sandy Hook to the Lizard in 11 days 16 hours 22 minutes. Wilson Marshall's three-masted auxiliary schooner defeats rivals in a historic deep-sea race, proving superior seamanship and build. The feat boosts American seafaring prestige and promises lasting influence on yacht cruising rather than technology-driven sprint racing.
The Bureau of Labor’s 1904 wholesale price study shows overall prices higher than any year since 1890 except 1903, with food products up but below 1890 levels, and sharp post-1892 rise after the Dingley tariff. Farm, cloth, fuel, drugs, and house furnishings show varied gains and declines versus earlier nine year averages.
George Bohn a 14 year old from St Paul rowed 17 miles on the Minnesota river to save Matthew O G Taylor after a hunting accident. Bohn bound a willow twig around the severed artery, placed the bleeding companion in a boat, rowed three hours by night to Fort Snelling and secured doctors. Taylor was taken to the fort hospital where the artery was tied. Yellow fever is a concern for the Panama canal zone authorities, says John Barrett the American minister to Panama now in the United States. The key challenge is sanitation and health preservation amid new cases at Colon.
In a personal account Mrs Mary D Murphy of 1908 Force Street Fort Wayne Indiana describes severe stomach trouble heat flashes and weakness ending after using Dr Williams Pink Pills She praises rapid relief and urges others to seek information from the Dr Williams Medicine Company Schenectady NY and to request Plain Talks to Women for free by mail
A Southern planter questions a colored servant about her wedding. She replies it was the finest ever with six bridesmaids, flowers, guests, and music. The master asks if Sambo looked as handsome as the bridesmaids. she quips that he never showed up, leaving an embarrassed pause.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty told a Senate committee that railways should set their own rates and develop business without a rate regulating commission. He warned that a fixed or unreasonable rate harms a railroad’s property rights, and that the fourteenth amendment protects railways from confiscation by state or federal orders. He urged fair, reasonable rates and cautioned against commission control.
A street conversation features a woman asking for her husband’s whereabouts. The neighbor replies with a pun indicating the man is “in B.C. beating carpets” on a local humor beat. The quip blends domestic banter with a regional joke about British Columbia.
Ina Pinch states Allen's Foot-Nose powder shakes into shoes to treat feet and cure corns bunions bunions bree sore hot callous aching sweating feet and ingrowing nails. Allen's Foot-Case helps with new or tight shoes. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25c. Sample mailed free. Address Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy NY.
An old timey ad style item parrots Mrs Winslow's Boormine Axnur claiming it eases wind colic and inflamation with a 35 cent bottle. The surrounding chatter mentions dessert and a pantry cook leaving, giving a humorous kitchen scene.
A Vienna court condemned two men to pay a monthly allowance to the widow of a man who, after they told a joke asserting his wife was unfaithful, died by his own hand in the ensuing distress.
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