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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
8
A collage of vintage ads and quips appears in a hazy clipping. Mentions Fall's Catarrh Cure and Charney & Co Toledo. Includes a humorous Chicago News exchange about a bank depositor avoiding arrest and a dialect quiz about apples.
A private’s wife launders for pay, a humorous tale ends with the soldier tying a tin box to a shirt as a hint. The 1908 Pertwua Lucky Day Almanac, sold via druggists, is promoted as widely available and timely. Also a child’s spelling issues blamed on classroom seating changes are noted with humor.
An old man story from a London Tit Bits issue depicts a white haired man living on a plantation visiting a doctor. The daughter advises plenty of chicken and avoiding damp at night. The elder asks how to stay indoors yet eat his chickens, highlighting dialect humor.
A Moscow Idaho woman describes inherited kidney trouble worsened by nerves. After trying various medicines she praises Dean's Kidney Pills, noting relief from sleeplessness, eye spots, back and hip pain. Ad copy details 50 cent boxes from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. A separate short anecdote shows a man learning the lunch waiter is not dining but simply waiting.
A Chicago merchant spoke to a business school class and misread a door panel word. The pupils laughed when he realized his text came from the wrong side. Piles Cured in 14 days promise appears with Paizo Ointment and refund offer.
A humorous quip from a Philadelphia Ledger item depicts a magistrate fining a speeding prisoner ten dollars or ten days in jail. The prisoner mutters that the sentence is not correct, highlighting a language nuance in a courtroom caricature.
From the New York Press the piece muses on risk in law practice and a world beyond this one. It jokes about greedy heiresses, late bathtubs, and selling farm property on easy terms. A brief column on two child anecdotes follows, including a grammar lesson quip and a Sunday school boy’s reply about commandments.
A Scottish minister chats with a parishioner who argues clergy should be better paid. The minister asks if higher stipends would attract a better class of men, and the parishioner agrees.
An old broadsheet urges Borax as a simple preventive against typhoid and unclean conditions. It claims Borax purifies water, cleans fabrics and linens, sterilizes baby bottles, guards against moths and skin blemishes, and is harmless when used as directed, with purchase easy at druggists or grocers.
A Boston Herald piece discusses how the New York Times and others debated the spelling hiccup versus hiccough, tracing forms from nicop to hiccup and quoting Murray. It notes Thackeray usages and includes a San home remedy ad and a testimonial about Cuticura products alongside a humor anecdote about a Chinese cook.
Bishop Potter’s address anecdote about a boy in a library contrasts churchgoing with curiosity. The text mixes stray ads and odd snippets including gun sales, fur trading, crop tips, and a wood-engraved note about hops, masks, and a questionable household scene, all reflecting fragmented newspaper content.
A testimonial style notice extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female illnesses. Mrs Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri recounts twelve years of suffering and eleven doctors, crediting the product and Mrs Pinkham's guidance with restoring health. The piece frames the compound as a universal cure rooted in herbs and traditional remedies.
A fragmented 1902 1905 discussion traces copper prices from 12 to 1.5 cents per pound, predicting drops to low levels, then a rise to 25.25 cents in 1904–07, followed by a sharp fall to 11.5 cents. The text cites statements by T. W. L. and others on price movements and forecasts.
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