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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1905
Page
6
Miss Maria Ducharme of Montreal testifies that Pelvic Catarrh harmed her life but Peruna restored her health. She praises the medicine after trying self-treatment failed and urges others to seek medical guidance from Dr. Hartman for confidential advice.
Official statistics claim 3,366,487,215 cigarettes were made in the past fiscal year. With a US population of 80,000,000 and several assumed age and smoking rates, the calculation yields 8,266,487,215 cigarettes to be shared by 10,000,000 people, equaling about 336 per person annually.
A vintage advertisement touts Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills as a complete external and internal skin cure. It claims to cleanse scalps remove crusts and dandruff treat hair loss soothe itching and support hair growth with a full set priced at one dollar.
In a year notable awakenings energize major cities including Los Angeles Keokuk Denver Dayton Louisville Atlanta Schenectady Jacksonville and Kansas City driven by the Evangelistic Committee of the General Assembly led by John S Converse and evangelist J Wilbur Chapman alongside Congregational revival efforts inspired by Rev W J Dawson. Boston campaign shows a hunger for souls with a midnight Salvation Army outreach drawing bankers pastors and merchants to the slums. Century.
Completely restored, Mrs. P Brunzel of 3111 Grand Ave Everett Washington reports long back pain relief after using five boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills. She says the medicine removed aching pains and other difficulties noting prompt action. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY distributes price 50 cents per box.
Images from sixteenth century portraits show a fur wrist muff often with a metal animal head or skull. Muffs began as noble property but spread to all ranks in Venice. Early muffs were velvet or silk with fur lining and jeweled trims. By 1662 they were a required fashion accessory for fashionable women.
Federal officers raided a den in the old cemetery near Sioux Falls and captured Levi Clark, an ex convict suspected of molding counterfeit coins. The operation tied Clark to A C G Sharp, arrested in Yankton for passing counterfeit money. Die and mold evidence suggests a coordinated ring intent on flooding the region with spurious coins.
Sioux Falls resident Wallace D Scott husband of ex Mrs Molineux Scott sails to New York for legal matters and to negotiate a possible contract for Mrs Molineux Scott to appear on the vaudeville stage this summer. After recent divorce and remarriage she had entered, then withdrawn from, a major vaudeville offer in the metropolis.
United States Deputy Marshal Jerry Carleton arrested A. J. Sharp in Yankton and brought him before U S Commissioner E T White on charges of passing counterfeit money. Spurious half dollars were found on Sharp and several Yankton merchants testified. Sharp waived the preliminary hearing and was remanded to custody for trial at the next United States court term in Sioux Falls.
August Allen, a young man left without legs after being struck by trains in the Chicago and Northwestern yards at Huron, died Sunday from injuries. He was reportedly intoxicated in the afternoon, and authorities think he may have slept on the tracks. The Wingsbury County Sunday School Association plans its annual meeting at Hetland Tuesday and Wednesday, with a large anticipated attendance and new features in the program.
The move to form a new judicial circuit for Meade and Butte counties is under consideration at Sturgis. A Butte County representative will attend the Meade County board meeting to canvass the proposal.
The citizens of Irene held a mass meeting to plan a July Fourth celebration in Irene. W Burkholder was elected chairman and Wm N Hews secretary for the event.
The Cash Carnival Company of St. Paul has secured the guarantee to host a five day street carnival in Beresford under Modern Woodmen auspices from July 18 to 23.
At the Dell Rapids Commercial Club board meeting held Thursday evening officers were elected. The group plans to secure a modern hotel for Dell Rapids as a top priority and aims to attract new business and visitors to the town.
Pierre business leaders meet to push a plan to issue stock for 150000 dollars to buy 15000 acres of state building lands. The wing’s construction is funded by 150000 dollars, with 20000 on hand. A chartered company would handle cash and land sales to complete the wing next year.
J R Franklin a sewing machine agent charged with defrauding nearly $38,000 was captured at Grangeville Idaho and returned to Mitchell after a two month search. Detectives traced his wife from Mitchell to Akron Iowa before reuniting with him. In justice court he waived examination and was bound over to circuit court on $600 bond. The Singer Sewing Machine Company investigated the shortage showing a nearly $8,000 deficit.
Mining men report a remarkable free milling ore strike on a low level at the Homestake mine in Lead. The vein is said to be large and may reach the surface, with several high grade pockets averaging near $1000 per ton unearthed recently, continuing a long history of rich finds since opening.
Ole Swenson of Mt. Vernon drowned while fishing from a boat on the Jiny River near Riverside. The two men steered toward the dam, were drawn into a strong current, and the boat capsized. Swenson clung to the craft while Rogers swam to shore. Swenson's body was recovered about an hour after the accident.
Oliver S. Pendar, clerk of the United States court in Sioux Falls, and D. B. Glidden, federal jury commissioner, have completed drawing a petit jury for a regular term of United States court to be held at Pierre. Jurors must report at 10 o’clock on the morning of Tuesday, June 13.
The Indian heirship land sold last year near Wagner is being broken up this spring and soon to flax. Over twenty thousand acres will be broken in the eastern part of Charlies Mix County this summer, much of it by steam plows.
A child of M H Davis died in Marion on Tuesday from diphtheria. No other cases appear present and officials enforce a strict health department quarantine with no epidemic fears.
In an electrical storm east of Pierre on Sunday Charles Thompson of Canning was killed by lightning while standing on the prairie watching the storm. The fatal event occurred as the storm swept across the area.
Pp. D. Butler, a long time Black Hills resident, died near Deadwood from old age. He arrived in the Black Hills in 1876 and was a member of the Society of Black Hills Pioneers.
Gov Elrod issues a lag day proclamation designating Wednesday June 4 as Flag Day and calls for a general observance. The move encourages public honor of the flag across the state capital and surrounding communities.
The Eureka board of education will within the next few days award the contract for a new public school building funded by bonds totaling $10,000 approved in a recent special election.
Alfred Gutwillig a well known clerk of Deadwood committed death by own action Wednesday afternoon Despondency was the cause He had a good many friends by the Black Lilla.
James E. Carr iera, a well known resident of Black Hilly, drowned after accidentally falling into a large pond on his father’s farm. He could not be rescued.
A promotional piece extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal cure for female ailments including backache, menstrual and ovarian troubles, nervous debility and blues. It cites testimonials from Mrs Holmes and Mrs Cottery praising relief and urges women to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham Lynn Mass.
Stubb proposes shipping circus posters to Europe to have foreign artists sign one corner and daub their names. The posters would be framed as masterpieces and returned to America. Penn questions the plan, but Stubb remains convinced it will succeed.
Fred Hermann of 209 Box Avenue Buffalo New York testifies that two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consumption cured a terrible cough. Dated September 24 1901.
A casual exchange reveals Miss Brickrow has rented a quiet room to work on a book titled How to Bring Up Children. The conversation notes a noisy home due to children and mentions a remedy from David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy in Albany for a wife’s illness.
A customer insists on an imported cigar and learns the boss is unavailable. The clerk explains there are two imported cigars but they are secured on the safe.
A funeral procession moves along a street as a man from the far east asks the cause of death. The Arizona landlord replies with a grim joke about "shortness of the feet," noting people who would not touch the ground, while the innkeeper confirms the line with a repeat.
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