18 Sep 1908
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Newspaper
Alden Times
Location
Alden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1908
Page
1
A dense, oblique excerpt follows a Victorian domestic scene. Mrs Fausset and her household confront the arrival of a fourteen year old girl, a fraught potential stepdaughter, amid Mildred’s illness and Bell’s loyalties. Tension rises over authority, care duties, and class dynamics within the Thames home.
A compact fragment pairing a quip about George Washington as a possible country founder with a remark on livelihood and service to mankind attributed to R. K. Stevenson, reflecting literary style and themes of virtue and public service.
A condensed chronicle lists diverse 18th and 19th century happenings names places and figures such as Worcester Lake George and York interactions with Britain France Spain and the new United States. It notes military actions political moves and cultural markers from Sir Guy Carleton to Lafayette to the first Hebrew temple and the opening of the Geographical Congress.
The report notes Germany supplies most dyes and Japan builds forty ships in its yards including two battleships. Clerks in New Zealand stores earn 36 to 17.50 weekly. The United States imports 4,284,583 dollars worth of race items from Nottinghaw England.
An old guide promotes the Dutch Boy White Lead by National Lead Company, touting purity and testing offers to protect buyers from adulterated paint. The text also narrates a dated wartime anecdote about recruits and a sniper, ending with a serendipitous exchange about a hunter’s father.
Mrs Thos Dunn of 1 Vine St Columbus Ohio describes a decade of backache pain and fatigue interfering with housework. She credits quick relief and a permanent cure to a product sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York. 50 cents a box. The ad ends with garbled chatter and stray phrases from unrelated text.
A Minnesota mother, Mrs H F Budke of LeSueur, recalls her baby’s eye and skin ailment beginning at two months, claiming severe sores and near blindness. After trying multiple remedies the child improved quickly within two months of Catheura treatment. nurse and doctor notes attributed the condition to cerema. The letter mentions poverty and concern over income as the family faced uncertain times.
The proclamation opens a registration and drawing for tracts in the Rosebud Reservation south of South Dakota in Tripp County. Judge James W. Witten of the General Land Office oversees the process, with registration sites at Chamberlain and Presho from October 6 to October 15. Lands total 39,000 acres, some allotted to Indiana, selling nearby in adjoining counties for 35 to 40 dollars per acre.
A patchwork of quotation snippets and stray phrases from a local paper includes a dogmatic statement about those who endure quietly, a listener’s retort about pickpockets, a medicinal ad for teething children, and stray political and religious lines. The text is garbled and reads like OCR junk without a clear cohesive story.
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