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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1906
Page
3
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifier and liver tonic that strengthens the stomach and nerves. It claims to cure liver and kidney troubles, improve blood, and provide endorsements from medical writers, with offer of the Common Sense Medical Adviser and information about the product ingredients.
A Wake Notice recalls a Success Magazine anecdote about Benjamin Franklin testing electricity with a Leyden jar on a rooster. The story claims the prepared roast was unusually tender, reflecting Franklin’s celebrated experiments and his lasting honor in science.
A teacher asks a pupil to total a child’s 15 cents spent on candy marbles and an apple. The pupil replies with a witty, businesslike twist, saying he would charge the items to his father, revealing a comic take on money and debt.
A New Hampshire mother recalls her son’s severe infant eczema, spreading over the face body and limbs. After failing with doctors she used all three Cuticura remedies, and within two months he improved and after six months was well, as shared in Piermont on October 24, 1905.
A sensational描述 of Nang Harm in Siam described as a queer city in Bangkok surrounded by walls with a population of 2000 and no men living inside its gates except the king who may visit. All official roles including judges police and soldiers are held by women.
A vintage advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure promising cure for deafness caused by catarrh with a one hundred dollar reward. It also includes a brief wagon-era quip from Bronco Bob about dangers in Crimson Gulch and a line from the Washington Star.
A brief back and forth captures a train car moment where a passenger questions an apple held by another, who identifies it as a Ben Davis and jokes about bananas to mask the taste. The exchange uses quirky dialect and everyday humor to highlight ordinary travel life.
A British anti slave trade schooner intercepts a derelict slave ship drifting apart from the calm sea. The lone officer boards to find a dying master at the wheel and a chained survivor, who believes the ship can be saved under new command. The officer pledges to take control, while the captor-turned-rescuer contemplates the survivor’s fate.
A ragged sailor awakens English officer Lieut Grace aboard a vessel afflicted by yellow fever. The captain, once second mate, reveals himself as captain and bottle washer. They navigate a deck plagued by illness as two men lie dead beneath makeshift covers and a grim survivor recalls burying many.
In CHAPTHR II a ragged steersman on a fever ship encounters Lient. Grace who saves Vic the dog and forms a bond beyond gratitude. Claud Tyars, Cambridge links surface as Grace recalls a Trinity man. Grace hints a slaver waits with the coast ship near Foam.
A brief dialogue fragment shows a man asking if the woman would permit a kiss as he expresses desire for her success, with the girl responding demurely about her concern for his undertakings.
A Russian woman Zenaida Smolidamoff, once in high Berlin circles, is sentenced at Leipsie to nine months for espionage. German army issues musketry rules to fire at gray toned human targets. kneeling and prone rests used for portable shooting rests.
A garbled composite from Washington Star and Baltimore American shows brief comic quips. The misquoted dialogue references a Congress member, bluffing, a tar pit wit, and a joke about marrying an architect, reflecting light farce in old press style.
The Senate and House clash over amendments to the railroad rate bill, with votes on pipeline and refrigerator car provisions. Military budgets face scrutiny as the army and naval appropriation bills move forward, while resolutions honor Gen. Horace Porter and aid for San Francisco relief are noted. The Garfield report is read and President Roosevelt’s message follows.
Notes of the National Capital report the President sent to the Senate the nomination of Julius Jacobs for assistant treasurer of the United States at San Francisco. British Ambassador Sir Martimer Durand visited the Capitol to relay inquiries for the government, while Senator Lodge denies plans to amend the Philippine tariff by removing the tax on denatured alcohol and asserts no opposition to the measure.
A letter from Hon. M. Oy Butler, ex-U S Senator from South Carolina, praises Peruna Medicine Co for its Peruna tonic use in treating dyspepsia and stomach trouble. He states he has used the medicine briefly and feels relieved and finds it wonderful.
The article states that catarrh of the stomach is the correct name for most dyspepsia cases and that eradication of the catarrh is needed. It recommends Peruna as the fraternal remedy that exactly meets the indications for a cure.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat chemist recites bizarre drug lore including rattlesnake venom for locomotor ataxia and scarlet fever, curara for hydrophobia, bladderwrack antifat claims, muscarine nitrate from dy agaric mistaken mushrooms, and cocaine effects on wakefulness appetite.
A traveler on the Cape Town to Victoria railway recalls life at Machad O ostriches near the train. One ostrich bit a passenger’s hand and swallowed a box of matches. The matches were the type that light only on the outside of the box, reducing ignition risk from loose bottles along the stairs.
An article by Q Wood promotes brain health through mineral balance, asserting phosphate of potash from natural grains rebuilds brain tissue. It endorses Grape-Nuts as the correct method, advising daily use for brain workers and noting Postum Co manufactures the product in Battle Creek Michigan.
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