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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
8
Letters from women recount avoidance of surgery after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad asserts decades of success treating displacements ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and backache and invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Mass.
At a New York Union League club dinner Mr Fish mocked a stout red faced man by saying he could tell the man was from Montreal by his accent. The snide remark came as soup was served and drew surprised responses from T and Mrs Fish.
An item mentions a debate about the first to advertise and suggests no data on the subject. It references the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad axle power headlights system and its 5000 candlepower output. Garfield Tea is promoted as a laxative for “good health.”
A well known actor touring the South describes entering a local club where the dispensary system is in vogue. A dusky attendant names the offerings as beer and wine but notes spirits are mostly absent, reflecting regional drinking customs.
A jumble of old notices and ads appears to promise cure alls and agents for Hall's Catarrh Cure, with sworn affidavits from 1886, along with product pitches for Allen's devices, letters from Parliament summaries, and miscellaneous notices about farms, botanists, and a Pekin Gazette editorial shift, reflecting a dated newspaper page.
The article gives cautions on painting weathered surfaces, advising dry surfaces, proper sanding, and using pure white lead mixed with fresh linseed oil. It highlights the Dutch Bay Painter brand and notes National Lead Company in New York will mail free testing kits. It also veers into rural and political snippets about Kansas, Georgia, and Venezuela’s coffee exports.
A colonial era church anecdote centers on a nurse naming a child Original Story, confirmed by a clergyman as a family name. The minister discovers the uncle Reginald Story, a farm laborer, shares the surname. The piece blends humor with a vignette about naming and kin.
From Harper’s Weekly a Chicago hotel proprietor recalls an eccentric guest who registers as “R. K. Phtholokhyrrk.” The clerk asks for pronunciation. the guest explains Turner by breaking phonemes from phth to myrrh. At Southend wedding, Angling Society members ride out under an arch of ash.
John Armstrong of Cloverport Kentucky says years of kidney complaints and severe backache ended after using Donn's Kidney Pills. He describes swollen limbs discolored secretions and weakening sight before relief followed by renewed strength and health. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Philadelphia school board member recalls a northern Pennsylvania school where boys work at desks yet nibble from lunchboxes. A pupil fixates on pie as the master asks attention, prompting the line about listening with one ear and eating pie with the other. Gretchen recites I am the Bread of Life with I am a loaf of bread.
J Kimball, general superintendent of the life saving service, notes steadiness as a virtue can be excessive. He recalls Mrs Madden who quips that if a man were any steadier he would be dead, illustrating a cautionary view on reliability in personnel decisions.
Moose Jaw Sask November 18 1907 writing from Moose Jaw Sask Mr Rathwall says he had 500 acres in wheat and 120 in oats Wheat averaged 22 bushels per acre with 200 acres cut before frost selling at 85 cents per bushel giving about $18 per acre not counting seed twine and labor The remaining wheat was frost damaged worth about 60 cents per bushel Oats yielded about 50 bushels per acre at 5 cents per bushel promising $17 per acre not counting seed twine and labor Frost affected some grain but high prices may yield fair profits amid car shortages for grain removal
An event in Chicago sends ripple effects through the Otto Young estate. The birth of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel K. Martin's son at 234 Lincoln Park Boulevard unveils a new potential heir and alters shares among four Young daughters and their families. The will leaves the principal to grandchildren, with $25,060,000 income shared among them, potentially yielding about $3,000,000 per grandchild if divided now.
From Everybody's Magazine an exploration of marital infidelity where wives are urged to accept their husbands is unfaithful behavior as hidden yet constant. The piece notes husbands spend evenings with wives and that affairs may involve women known to the household. It discusses Italian norms and the preference for women in status spheres.
A Wall Street broker, a personal friend of E U Harriman, handed a Harriman visiting card to Stuyvesant Fish at his New York home during wartime tensions between the men. Fish examined the card in a cautious, puzzled manner as he descended to the drawing room, raising questions about the social maneuver.
At a New York publishers dinner Mark Twain recalled his Virginia City reporting days. He described a horse thief who hurled a studded boot at the judge, missing the judge and striking a reporter instead. Twain notes he wrote up the incident in a single paragraph and mocks the event.
A humorous tale features Edward King, bishop of Lincoln, nearly 80, slipping at the seaside. A quick, bold young girl helps him to his feet. He thanks her, but she begs him not to reveal her identity as she jokes about helping her drunken father home.
An advertising note for Cascarets in a compact enamel box urging health through bowel exercise. It promotes Cascarets as a non purge laxative that strengthens bowel muscles like exercise, safeguards against indigestion, and offers a ten cent West Pocket box from Sterling Remedy Company.
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