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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1910
Page
6
A long standing invitation from Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts explains that women can consult a experienced advisor without cost. Letters are read and answered by women, preserving confidentiality, drawing on decades of experience to aid those with female weakness or related concerns.
A New York Sun writer describes a rushed search for a lost scarf-pin after dynamite scare in a building lot. A stout man and a stranger both hunt dust and debris, leading to a reveal that the pin belonged to the rightful owner, hidden on the man’s coat pocket.
A fragmentary verse hints at a rewritten nursery tale where the cow jumps over the moon and a dog sobs as the scene shifts from a planned meeting. The line about beef and the tryst adds a surreal, playful détournement.
A stage driver recalls a fearsome encounter with a venomous snake. The rider’s nerves at the sight of a snake caused a dramatic escape as the wagon was cleared. The story ends with the dramatic image of the snake’s fangs piercing the wagon and leaving it swollen by the roadside.
A dialogue explores summer plans with Crossway asking about vacation spots. The couple reveal they will visit the brother’s farm, while the brother and his family will stay at their city home during the absence, ensuring the house is not left unoccupied.
A compact roundup of eclectic notes spans science, history, and culture. It cites global counts of workers at sea in Canada, insanity stats in Russia, and a widow’s mourning fashion dating to ancient Egypt, plus Roman building height limits and a van Eyck pupil’s painting unearthed in Germany. It covers Cuban sugar cane paper trials, Manhattan debt, Britain’s cancer rise, royal-family connections, a China-born student at Wellesley, and a soundproof room at Upsala. Also mentions bunyip lore near Stawell, Australia, Marie Lohr in pajamas, London's drainage plans, and Franklin’s middle gutter idea.
Mrs Joseph Lacelte of 124 Bronson Ave Ottawa East Ontario reports nine months of backache and headaches relieved by Peruna. She says the medicine greatly improved her miserable, half dead, half alive condition after taking a few bottles.
Free sample bottle offered by the Peruna Company of Columbus Ohio to demonstrate value in catarrhal troubles. Readers urged to mention they saw the offer and to write for medical guidance and free literature with health rules.
An early 20th century style advertisement touts Allen's Lung Balsam with a humorous exchange about saloons and credition. It claims the remedy is simple safe effective and available from all dealers with popular prices.
Harper's Weekly notes curious English villages with oddities such as many old railway carriages forming a chapel and towns with minimal public buildings. It cites Skiddaw Cumberland with a sole inhabitant unable to vote, a one village Isle of Ely with no roads or rates, Kempton seven miles long, and villages that vanish into cliffs or mine workings.
A testimonial letter extols Postum as nourishing for mothers and nourishing to children. The narrator credits boiled Postum with strengthening a mother, increasing milk supply, and aiding a delicate five year old boy. The letter urges proper boiling for flavor and notes readers to read The Road to Wellville for context.
The article argues Americans love peanuts and import significant amounts from Japan and Spain to meet demand. It notes southern states like Virginia, the Carolinas, and Alabama grow peanuts as a major industry and that home production could rise to satisfy consumption. It adds that Japan supplied about four-fifths of recent peanut imports and that rising knowledge of peanuts’ value supports expanded domestic farming.
A quoted reminiscence from Edward Pease recounts a balloon ascent near a garden field. A cautious offer to lend the field ends with the owner warning of liability if the flyer falls. The tale notes the balloonist’s prior flights and a prior Newcastle death tied to a similar ascent. The account preserves a dated, cautionary tone.
An old English belief says a spider on clothing signals money coming. An ancient writer notes that seeing a spider prompts the remark that wealth is near, and the moral suggests industry like the spider can weave into a plentiful estate with God’s blessing.
A dramatic scene at a steamship line office ends with a witty clerk directing the excited caller to steerage tickets. Money is highlighted as the true vigor for hair, with investors warned by a man’s sharp remark about sharing.
The fragment lists a domestic humorous exchange about manners and home life, followed by medical ad copy praising Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for constipation and Mrs Winston's Nothing Syrup for teething, priced at 26 cents. It also notes prison clothes marked with a broad arrow and questions about its origin.
A well known Englishwoman lecturer recounts two hosting anecdotes from provincial tours. In one town the chair introduces her as the grand old woman after mentioning Mr. Gladstone. In another, a bluff farmer claims she is here to speak about her rights and has hired the hall, implying audience disruption if not pleased.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo. It claims to treat catarrh by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces, offers a $100 reward for a proven failure, and urges readers to send for circulars and testimonials. Also promotes Torchon insect issue and Wall's Family Pills for constipation.
A Lawrence Times item reprints a joke about a reporter sent to write up a house fire. The maid says no one is home, and the fire of the previous night is already out, turning a serious assignment into a humorous misfire.
An Interlocutor questions why a one legged man is considered poor while Mr Blimber, a pleasing vocalist, prepares to sing Dearest Wipe Your Feet from the Door Mat Ma Has Scrubbed and the scene plays with comic dialect and stage banter.
The dialogue praises Professor Jones as not conceited but full of accurate knowledge and common sense. Mrs Lapsling concurs, calling him among the most sapacious men encountered, underscoring admiration for his plain speaking and wisdom.
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