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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1906
Page
3
A garbled excerpt presents a speaker named General Yourg discussing marital roles and a "maternal side" versus spiritual side. The scene shifts to a party where the speaker laments gender expectations, hinting at tensions over sharing a partner's duties and rights.
A compact notice announces The Return of Sherlock Holmes, copyright 1903 by A. Conan Doyle, featuring a new weekly feature titled Zeida's Weekly. The item highlights the author, year, and publication framing for readers.
An incomplete excerpt shows dialogue from a column or sketch with mistyped words and names. It includes lines about travel and language hesitations and mentions Philadelphia and Chicago as places referenced in the joke. The fragment hints at cultural commentary from a serialized weekly item.
A six month old boy suffered severe eczema covering the entire body causing painful crusts and bleeding. After failure with three doctors a friend recommended Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Within ten days improvement appeared and by ten weeks the child was well with smooth white skin. F Hobrath President Sik Ribbons South Bethlehem Pa June 5 1905.
The piece profiles Christie once a legitimate broker in Kansas City and St. Joseph who drifted into bucket shops. It recounts his creation of Christie Grain and Stock Company, his alleged theft of quotations via a hidden telephone receiver, the 1900s legal battles with the Chicago Board of Trade, a Supreme Court injunction in 1905, and his subsequent founding of the National Board of Trade at Kansas City as a quotation foundry.
A testimonial from Miss Charlotte Van Salisbury of Castleton New York describes neuralgia heart palpitations and fainting. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People she reports color returning and full recovery after eight boxes. Her sister Sarah also improves, and both recommend the pills. Sold by druggists or by mail from Dr Williams Medicine Co Beohenectaly New York. Descriptive pamphlets free on request.
Holmes and Watson pursue a perilous pursuit through London’s Italian quarter and Chiswick. Lestrade identifies Pietro Venucel, a Naples-born cutthroat tied to a secret society, while Holmes uses a staged misdirection to trap the suspect in the act. Beppo, a local Italian thief, is captured with a broken Napoleonic bust and a bloody knife. The case links to Gelder & Co. and a broader mafia theory, with Holmes promising further revelations.
Holmes explains the sequence of events linking Beppo and the Borgia pearl to a six busts of Napoleon, tracing the jewel from Gelder & Co. to the Reading bust and finally to Beppo’s hiding in the last Napoleon bust. Lestrade praises Holmes as a master craftsman while Holmes dispatches the pearl to the safe and dismisses for the Conk-Bingleton forgery papers.
The piece recalls John Greenleaf Whittier and a collection he prepared in manuscript for intimate friends. It notes an unnamed poet’s later life temperament, the tension between youthful vanity and mature duty, and a revelation about a privately circulated volume tied to Whittier’s handwriting and a Miss Nicholson family.
The St Louis Globe Democrat recounts a Choctaw hunting method observed after a six hour chase atop frost covered terrain. A hunter on horseback hurled a baseball sized stone into a deer's eyes, dropping the animal in a shallow creek, as hounds bayed and the Indian hauled the carcass to his pony.
A Perry Ohio traveler accused butter of containing a cow's hair. The waiter examined the plate, then served it again, confirming the hair as genuine cow hair and noting the butter is not margarine. Antwerp plans to spend 49 million dollars to modernize its port facilities.
Farm guidance covers feeding pigs with clover hay and feeders, stressing sweet smelling hay with most leaves intact and early cutting to avoid overripe fodder. Advice covers grooming horses and careful handling of rape pastures, using old hay for initial feed, and maintaining stock condition with grooming rather than extra grain. Fence rows should be mowed, weeds removed before seeding, and Bordeaux mixture used in July and August to prevent blight in tomatoes. Manure management is highlighted as crucial, with rain carrying fertility away described as a major leak on farms. A porch screen is suggested to reduce insects and provide a comfortable eating and resting area.
Mrs Spratt laments Willie, a six year old, taking two cents to buy candy without paying bus fare. Mr Spratt consoles, arguing adults and children share wavering senses of right and wrong. The pair discuss honesty, temptation, and the conductors fare etiquette in a casual domestic exchange.
A prominent Indiany physician advised diet changes and avoiding coffee to heal a twenty year stomach ailment. The patient credits Postum with restoring health after years of various medicines, praising the doctor’s coffee-free remedy and noting a ten day trial offered by Postum Go.
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