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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1903
Page
3
A letter to Dr. Hartman from Sister Beatrix of 410 W 20th St New York praises Peruna for curing catarrh of the lungs after four years. She notes Eight bottles cured her and mentions helping several sisters with coughs and colds, asserting it cures catarrh in every case she has known.
A Detroit Sisters of Charity report praises Peruna for a young patient with laryngitis and throat catarrh, noting relief and potential cure. The letter credits Dr. S B Hartman and invites readers to seek free guidance from The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus Ohio.
New York Times cites Marshall P. Wilder as an authority on jokes. He recalls General Sherman sending a seven page note about jokes and sober topics. The Irishman gag follows, ending with a clever pledge about not blowing out a candle.
During a visit to England King Edward VI jokes about a double of King Carlos living near Marlborough House. The cab driver replies that locals call him Your Majesty, but friends call him Ole Tatty, highlighting a humorous likeness and royal banter.
Six congressmen recount a widow in Allen’s district pressing for a position in the agricultural department. He explains no vacancy existed, yet she persisted, eventually delivering a startling misquote as she “announced” a death in the department.
A young John D. Rockefeller, about 19, keeps his plan to polish his own shoes after a 10 cent charge. While finishing a shine, his $3.76 silver watch slips and breaks the crystal. He resolves to continue self-blacking but vows someone will pay for the loss, a moment seen as the start of his future drive.
A fragmentary poem portrays a heartbroken speaker pleading for relief from grief. The voice laments absence, seeks comfort at the beloved’s feet, and pleads for love to ease the torment, invoking a constitutional plea like a cry for aid.
Bertram Lovell, a weary traveler, moves into the villa next door and endures an endlessly troublesome boy named Perry. After a siege of catapulted stones and uproar, Lovell confronts Perry’s widowed mother, whose sweet demeanor and attempts at discipline soften his resolve as a warm, comic tension unfolds in their quiet street.
Bertram Lovell grows smitten with Edith Morgan at the adjacent villa. Perry, Edith’s disguised nephew, confesses a deception that ties the pair. Edith forgives, and Bertram learns Perry is not her son as the couple move in together that autumn.
Arch street artist Albino Bata recalls a Cape Delaware sketching trip. They found a deserted hut used as an illicit whisky still and slept there. At twilight they saw many white bats circling above, debating whether the albino look came from natural causes or fumes.
A vivacious young lady jokes about losing her best fellow while he offers a humorous aside on her constant giggling. Friends attribute the split to a playful, self serving dynamic described with light city slang from the Indianapolis Sentinel.
A fragmentary dialogue questions why women wear large hats at theaters and humorously notes a man behind explaining the play. The text shifts to a will where the speaker bequeaths two sheep to his nephew Jean Pierre if found, otherwise to his servant Nicholas, per Le Gautote.
A terse quip by Zerap Bynge notes that men who claim the world owes them a living are often too simple to fleece or prey upon, implying a critique of entitlement and gullibility.
New York January 27 Dr Maurice Fishberg a famed anthropologist told a joint meeting of the American Ethnological Society and the New York Academy of Sciences that there is no Hebrew race and that Hebrews were not descended from Abraham Isaac and Jacob but were Armenians He argued Aryans were not a distinct race and cited modern anthropological findings on Semites and their origins asserting Semites differ from other African groups and from Asians.
Granton Oklahoma February 9 after ten years D B H Gosney claims a complete cure for kidney trouble. He tried many remedies before using Dodds Kidney Pills. He says the treatment restored his health and led to his full recovery.
An Opinion piece in the New York Sun weighs Knicker-Higheaa's boast of being a self-made man and notes he likely overreached by declaring himself on strike before completing the job.
A New York City resident describes severe ovarian pain and headaches from presumed gynecological problems. After using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, she reports total recovery and urges young women to try the remedy as a cheaper cure than doctors.
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