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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1902
Page
6
A Liverpool magistrate hears a tale from Patrick O Connor claiming a burst water pipe drowned his hens. He repeats the story after being advised to contact the water company. The judge notes the water company told him to keep ducks, per the London Tit Bits report.
A fragmented newspaper page merges an old advertising line for Red Cross Ball Blue with scattered notes on smell and cautions about mercury in catarrh remedies. It also hints at product pitches and a stray medical claim about a French engineer’s mother, creating a collage of ad copy and imperfect transcription.
Poem recalls warm spring days in New Orleans with friends under dogwood blossoms. The speaker reflects on youth games like mumble peg, shy breezes, scented air, and tears as memories of old friends and carefree afternoons surface.
The article explains that space is permeated by luminiferous ether, which carries all electrical phenomena light and heat. It compares solids moving in ether to a sieve in water, notes that wireless telegraphy radiates ether waves in all directions, and that reception depends on apparatus that detects these vibrations.
A fragment from Chicago News presents Mrs Neighbors asking about happiness at home and Mrs Hapeck humorously replying she only wants to see her husband. The brief exchange captures light domestic wit without further context.
Mrs Mamie Herbert of Buffalo credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing eight years of uterine suffering. She used several bottles and the Sanative Wash, reporting renewed health and vitality for three years. The ad urges women to seek Pinkham's remedy for menstrual and womb related ailments and to write for advice.
Des Moines hosts the twenty-eighth annual Grand Army of the Republic encampment with 1,500 veterans. Gen Grenville M Dodge arrives with state and national officials, a public reception draws about 10,000, and a record parade up Des Moines streets features Gen Dodge and Cmdr El Lawrence. Officers are elected for the new year and resolutions favor pensions and an annuity for Clara Barton.
The article surveys Brazil’s government modeled on the United States with a four year presidential term, direct popular vote, and a federal structure of twenty states plus a federal district. It notes Campos Salles’ presidency, Moraes, Saldes, and the shift from military to civil administrators, praising reform and foreign hospitality while warning against Jacobin opposition. It cites Cheautauqua Magazine and Puck commenting on unification and corporate consolidation.
In Star City Arkansas May 26 a man, W H McFalls, suffered for two years from a head burning pain. Doctors puzzled him until he tried Dodd's Kidney Pills which gradually relieved the ailment. A La Grippe attack recently occurred but the pills banished the trouble. McFalls' son George also found benefit from the pills. Apricot pulp shipments of 28 tons were ordered from California by a London jam maker.
The lettered testimonial highlights Anna Martin of Detroit and Marie Johnson of Buffalo praising Peruna as a cure for backache dizziness irregularities and female weakness. Other writers claim relief from menstrual irregularities and long term health decline after using Peruna, urging wider use.
Mrs Anna Martin and Miss Fluth Idmerson praise Peruna as a universal remedy for catarrh and related illnesses. They cite Dr Hartman and his book Health and Beauty, offering free advice and a contact address in Columbus for prompt, satisfying results.
A garbled excerpt blends social mockery with early 20th century advertisements. It includes lines about brief social interactions, the Allen’s Foot-Ease remedy, Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product, a note on British subjects with wills, and miscellaneous quotes and testimonials.
A distressed would-be self-harmer at Ohio State Journal reports he wrote I have blew in all my money and that is why I blew out the gas. He signed the note and prepared to leave it for discovery but noticed he had used the word blew twice. Enraged, he tore up the note and vowed to live to seek revenge on the man who invented the English language.
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