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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1907
Page
8
The article suggests saving torn warp threads from fine lawn as a durable, colorful alternative to manufactured threads. Wind long warp strands on a spool for reuse in delicate mending and sewing, noting they produce invisible hems, strong stitching, and exact thickness for matching colors and fibers.
A sewing tip explains how to prevent silk threads from looping and breaking by using a hairpin loop through the spool. The text then promotes Garfield Tea claiming it regulates the liver and kidneys purifies the blood and eradicates disease, noting it is made wholly of orbs.
A stray newspaper item recounts W Bourke Cochran at a St Patrick's day gathering. An Irishman jokes about an obituary for Baring-Gould printed by mistake while Gould remains alive, noting the funeral notices in papers. The quip reflects timely satire on press errors and public notices.
An advertisement reports Mary of a farm sale for 50000 dollars and warns against signing a friend's bonds. It promises surety bonds from The Tithe Guaranty & Surety Company, with its home office in Scranton Pennsylvania, capital and surplus over 1,000,000, urging readers to contact their agent at the County Seat.
Senator Cullom compares a colleague’s outspoken address to a widow speaking to her new husband on their honeymoon. He notes the remark implies the former speaker would be pleased by the replacement, suggesting a sharp political jab within a heated legislative moment.
A writer recalls Mrs North, a stout, tireless landlady of a three story brick boarding house in Kansas City. She kept the home with no maid, sent monthly letters to a husband in prison, and endured sorrow while sheltering tenants. After her death, the husband’s grief and his own suicide reveal a long hidden story of love and endurance.
Farm ledger lists total assets for 186 acres with house, stable and outbuildings at 5 000 00 plus 800 00 for implements. Livestock include 20 head of cattle 875 00, 0 head of horses and harness 800 00. Receipts from this season's crop amount to 1 872 00.
Over the last six years and across seventy three military and naval expeditions in Asia and Africa, Britain reports 8 678 men killed and 23 733 wounded as part of ongoing imperial warfare.
Walter W. Paglusch of 207 N Robey Street Chicago describes years of severe itching from eczema. After using Cuticura Soap Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent Pills a dollar twenty five, he was completely cured. Dates Oct 8 and 16 1900.
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