08 Jun 1911
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1911
Page
1
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment as low cost aids for rough hands dry skin and falling hair. It urges warm baths and gentle anointing and offers a free Cuticura book from Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston Mass.
Charles T. Rose, prominent in Masonic and banking circles in Cleveland, is a noted chicken fan. While walking his incubator house, his three year old daughter Helen ran to him asking which chick was hers, prompting a playful moment as he lifted her and joked about her incubator.
A humorous exchange highlights old well and hoisting apparatus reliance. The householder notes can be repaired by a carpenter when the old device malfunctions, while the plumber questions why city water isn’t installed for a small cost. The cartoonish dialogue contrasts modernization with practical fixes.
A clipped dialogue from Harper's Weekly quotes Hawkins as accepting punishment with loud language. The passage shifts to modern ad copy praising Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, Garfield Tea, and a moral quip about the transgressor, ending with a nod to education in the little red schoolhouse.
Pound Wisconsin resident Mrs Hernan Seth reports 14 years of dyspepsia and female troubles relieved by Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Blood Unifier. The ad claims long-standing women’s ailments cured, urges trials and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts.
Captain Nathaniel Plum arrives covertly on Beaver Island seeking settlement of Strang for looted sloop. Obadiah Price bargains for ammunition and delivers a sealed mission to Franklin Pierce. Plum encounters Nell and Marion the lilac girl, defies Strang, rescues Nell, and faces pursuit by the sheriff Arbur Croche. Marion and Winngame are drawn in as Plum and Neil plan escape while the island erupts into battle with a doomed fate for Strang and prisoners awaiting judgment.
Jeckum’s dungeon scene ends in brutal resistance as Neil vows defiance while Nathaniel strikes MacDougall. Strang arrives, commending Captain Plum and pledging to finish the grim task, with the prophet’s calm tribute amid rising peril.
Nathaniel, bound and gagged, moves with a trailing jailer Jeekum and masked guards toward a forest edge. A whispered hint to Marion Winnsome sparks cautious hope, but Jeekum signals silence as a tense voyage unfolds. Neil bears a stoic front while fear and doubt surge. The trio row toward an unseen destination at night. TO BE CONTINUED.
Professor Reclus of the Academy of Medicine of Paris urges every ambulance, train, station, or large project site to keep a weekly refreshed flask of fresh tincture of iodine. He prescribes painting fresh wounds with a French strength tincture, drying, then dressing with aseptic cotton and bandage, repeating daily the first two days and extending intervals until no painting for three to four days.
The text credits Ocala with introducing grapefruit to the world. Forty years ago guests at the Ocala house tasted the fruit, which was first shipped to markets by James A. Harris, long known as the orange king.
A fragmentary quotation attributes a provocative line to Dryden describing a creator’s perfection and a cross left behind after drawing out all the gold. The excerpt appears as a literary relic without broader context or clear news relevance.
Practical advice from a vintage home guide. Boxed recipe cards stay handy, while simple tricks cover preserving textiles, cleaning porcelain, polishing windows, boiling utensils, and using sugar tongs for bottle tasks. Includes tips on bread slicing, vinegar storage for cheeses, and oil use for frying.
New York headline recounts Head Keeper Billy Snyders treating Hattie the elephant for clover colic. He prescribed a drastic mixture including linseed oil laudanum whisky, hoisted her head with a block and tackle, and poured it down her throat. Hattie recovered and resumed tricks for the children an hour later.
A terse proclamation asserts religion falters when the stomach is weak and bad cooking breeds wretched feelings, linking spiritual well being to digestive condition and culinary quality. The remark reflects a streetwise view on mind body harmony and daily habits.
Sour cream is a versatile pantry ingredient. it can replace butter and shortening in many recipes. It lends itself to salad dressings, pie fillings with eggs, and improves the keeping quality of gingerbreads cookies and fried cakes. Specific cake recipes include Nut Cake Feather Cake Spice Cake and Cream Cakes with precise ingredient lists and baking notes.
Two lazy northern Wisconsin boys used a phonograph to fetch cows home. After tiring of canned songs they left the machine in the pasture and played checkers. A recording inspired by the word Come, boss, come, boss brought the herd back to the barn.
The Jewish Chronicle laments that fiery fighting spirit has soured into petty disputes within the group. It notes every private now holds a marshal's baton and wields it, challenging each other with who.
Nera faced with both classical and popular schools, making little impression, then he set Rome on fire in a dramatic outburst. He shouted he would show them his lack of temperament as he resumed his instrument with a sinister air.
Indianapolis teacher Mary Jenkins stopped a snake infestation in a Posey county school yard during afternoon recess. She battled black snakes with a poker and shovel, killing 27 reptiles as pupils watched in alarm.
A donor pledges $10,000 annually to Columbia University for surgical research work and another $15,000 yearly to establish and maintain a bureau to promote scientific investigation of legislative grafting.
A bold man enters a Broadway store with a large bandbox hat and demands a refund for a $35 purchase his wife made this spring. He notes she has already bought three hats and has never worn this one, insisting the wife does not need it and the husband must take it back. The saleswoman calls him a cringing coward in contrast to Napoleon, highlighting the spectacle as the store endures a month of disruption.
Backer laments trimming the result while the boxer asserts confidence in victory. The Pugilist reflects on believing he would win and being Meked in the outcome as quoted by Puck.
A witty note contrasts Washington seeking one hundred additional policemen with Congress intent on passing that many new laws. The remark reflects tension between executive requests and legislative activity in a historical context.
In a terse dialogue, a teacher asks what happened when the army fell into the ambush and Little Willie explains they were all scratched up.
A Wisconsin creamery manager reports coffee caused stomach distress and mental dullness, improved after switching to Postum. After wife followed box directions, he saw digestion improve and heightened mental sharpness, enabling better office work and fewer errors. The testimonial is from Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan, promoting reading The Road to Wellville.
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