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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1910
Page
6
Public notice advertises Munyon's Paw-Paw Laxative Pills as a cure for constipation indigestion jaundice biliousness and stomach ailments. It promises free sample packets by mail from Munyon's Homeopathic Remedy Co Philadelphia.
An old promotional notice promotes PET TIT’S EYE SALVE to soothe granulated eyelids caused by strong winds and sand storms. The ad offers quick relief for 25 cents and lists Howard Bros. druggists in Buffalo New York as the supplier.
The article argues Canada offers profitable farm land opportunities with rising values this spring, noting increased land worth for homesteaders after three years of residence. Railways, good roads, and government rate controls support profitable grain transport. Demand from Americans surges as land remains plentiful, urging swift action through agents in the U S.
New York American reports that Hetty Green, famed as the wealthiest businesswoman, plans to retire and hand over management of her estimated $50,000,000 fortune to her daughter Sylvia Wilks as early as a few weeks. The 73 year old remains sharp though showing wear from age. Her son Edward H. R. Green, based in Texas, has not pursued the same level of financial fame.
A New York Sun tale chronicles Mr Blinxom a methodical man who wakes two minutes early and finds his routine disrupted. He notices astonished office staff and a laughing stenographer before he realizes his untidy hair in a mirror explains his morning anomaly. He remains confident the delay was meaningful.
Admirers funded a Byron monument for Westminster Abbey but the dean refused permission, delaying the project for over twelve years. Thorvaldsen completed the statue, showing Byron seated on a ruin with a style to his mouth and a book inscribed Childe Harold, now housed in Trinity College Cambridge. Thorvaldsen was born 1770 and died 1844.
The piece notes the soda fountain as a social staple and economic force from New York to Reno. It highlights yearly consumption at 479 million gallons from 120 thousand fountains, total industry value around 240 million dollars, and the broad impact on drugstores through sales of medicines and toiletries while detailing the annual scale and investment in equipment.
A reflective verse asking whether the living should fear the dead or alter love for a revered departed. The speaker seeks reconciliation with mortality, urging wiser judgment and broader sight from deathlike observers as life rises and falls.
Luke Clark, a physician in Walton, spurns Edith Lowrie after her luxury life reveals her view of love as status. Years later Edith returns to his bedside as he dies, asking forgiveness which he grants aloud before passing away, leaving questions of friendship and sacrifice.
Yarrow Missouri, home to five families, becomes the state’s smallest town with its own electric light plant. Owner Michael Webber tied a 10 hp dynamo to his water mill, lighting homes of a grocer, blacksmith, miller and two retirees. He plans a larger setup to power more of Adair County and advocates Chariton River power development including a proposed $100000 dam near Kirksville. The seven foot dam powering the current wheel dates to 1849 with two newer wheels now delivering about 75 hp for grinding and lighting.
Charles Henry Treat, former treasurer of the United States under Roosevelt, died of apoplexy. Born in Frankfort Maine about sixty eight years ago, he descended from notable figures including Robert Treat Paine and a Connecticut governor. Dartmouth graduate 1865, he joined the family export business, later serving as Delaware delegate-at-large to the 1888 Republican convention and as collector of internal revenue for the Wall Street district during the Spanish American War.
One minute wireless readiness impresses, with portable stations from wagons capable of twenty five miles. A 40 foot mast, 150 feet of four stranded wire, a ground wire, and power connections are required. Early portable setups needed longer, but modern tests show rapid deployment and operation in minutes, per Popular Mechanics.
A Youth's Companion article argues that daily cold plunges miss the point of cleanliness. Real bathing requires warm water mild soap a brush and a rough towel to clear skin pores of waste. dry rubbing can spare the bath when water is unavailable.
A satirical dialogue shows a political agitator arguing socialists are dangerous while a crowd voice mockingly opposes him. A quip defines a foot passenger as a fool who steps into traffic, and a final line notes that many fail by spending effort proving luck is against them.
A city firm’s piano tuner visits a suburb to tune a piano, finds it fine, receives a letter from a musical owner saying it isn’t properly tuned, and after a reprimand makes a second trip to confirm no fault. The owner notes it sounds fine when played, but goes out of tune when she sings. A humorous exchange follows with a joke about milk cream and honesty, reflecting light domestic humor.
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