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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1901
Page
8
A historic advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compounds as a cure for female ailments including uterine disorders, “bearing down” and backache, irregular menses, nervous debility, and related conditions. It claims early tumor dissolution, cancer prevention, and effectiveness across ages, urging use through druggists and forbidding substitutes.
A passerby in Chicago strolls through Jackson Park and points to a ground spot on Wooded Island claiming eight years ago he paid 2397,50 for a world fair concession. He denies pocket theft and gives a cryptic tale of a prior expense beyond his return.
An exceptional offer describes a lucrative Des Moines Iowa newspaper business with strong current profits and room to grow. No special industry knowledge is required. price 16500 dollars. Interested buyers should write W M Ostrander at the North American building Philadelphia Pa for details.
Brooklyn Life reports a domestic dispute sparked by a neighbor who used a resident’s telephone to call Boston. The neighbor offered payment, which the resident accepted, triggering anger and a breakdown in neighborly relations.
Public notice promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powdery for Children used by a New York nurse at the Children’s Home to cure feverishness bad stomach teeth ing disorders move bowels and destroy worms. It claims over 30 000 testimonials and free samples by request. Also mentions Allen 8 Olmstead LeRoy NC and a private golf links over two miles laid out for the king and Windsor.
The sculptor William Ordway Partridge spent years in the Holy Land gathering inspiration for a group centered on Jesus as an ideal man. He argues Jesus combined scholarly greatness with a compelling personal mien and a spiritual kingdom, not a temporal one, leaving a lasting influence from Jerusalem to Galilee.
A London Telegraph summary argues vaccination as essential for smallpox control alongside rigorous sanitary measures. It notes disinfection, isolation, and vaccination of exposed individuals as key to ending outbreaks, compares smallpox to hydrophobia, and cites research on the virus concept while acknowledging the virus's exact nature remains unidentified. It states vaccination can help after exposure, similar to Pasteur’s rabies treatment.
A fragment notes Laura wearing a Parla hat described as having lug black-hearse features on each corner and one in the middle, with dialogue tone about Clarence-Well and the hat’s design.
The Atchison Globe reflects on gender roles and domestic life, noting confidence, courting behavior, and the contrast between German and art studies with comment on marriage dynamics. It cites anecdotes about a Chicago publisher buying a woman’s coin position and an Atchison woman defending prosperity through a “drawing room” lifestyle.
Goodland Kansas December tale of N B Albertson a local blacksmith who nearly quit after Rheumatism left him unable to hammer or sleep. He tried Dodd's Kidney Pills and was cured completely now returning to the shop with no trace of rheumatism.
A humorous Chicago Journal item notes an old chum Bones asks a doctor to operate for appendicitis. The exchange features a nurse prompting, and the doctor hesitates to cut an old acquaintance.
The advertisement promotes Ely's Cream Balin prepared for nasal ailments. It preserves soothing properties without drying secretions and is sold with a spraying tube for TS cents. Available at druggists or Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street, New York, with mail option.
A brief theater or comic exchange features Jack and Tom discussing a performance where Tom admits success in making her father toe the mark, revealing he was the mark. The dialogue hints at a staged ruse and the narrator’s wry tone.
A fragmented 1901 clipping mingles forged sports lore with colonial polo in India and a humorous Memphis Scimitar tale. It cites Lord Roberts and the Duke of Cambridge touching on polo's appeal to British cavalry, then shifts to a cartoonish about a passenger agent bragging of fighting an imagined opponent, ending with a medical testimonial for Piso’s Cure.
A jumble of old ads and banter from a Pittsburg Gazette page features comic exchanges, remedies, and sales pitches. It mentions nerve tonics, a perfume of headlines, and a plea for various patent medicines, with humorous asides about markets and consumer goods.
Local chatter playfully argues that Little Johnnie Paw heads south for summer while others stay north. The quip muses on seasonal travel patterns with a folksy tone and regional dialect.
A fragment from a Chicago Tribune piece captures a boy with a shotgun declaring I done the shootin and questioning hogging all the game while another boy in Root clothes exclaims You bet and talks of hoverin and yellin in a rural style.
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