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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1902
Page
3
Fragmentary timetable notes list trains 202 206 204 205 22 with mail and way freight services. Mentions connections at Grinnell with UR IL and P A KEINGLER agent notes scheduling details and Sunday exceptions for arrivals and departures in Kansas City and St south areas.
Belmond Iowa time card effective June 1908 shows south bound trains arriving Clarion Eagle Grove Fort Dodge at 2 00 pm and 4 05 pm and north bound trains from Thornton Mason Hayfield Austin St Paul Minneapolis at 10 pm and 3 00 pm All trains operate daily except Sunday. G L MCALPINE Agent
George Schaub of New Lebanon Ohio, a keen Dayton Volkszeitung reader, bought Chamberlain Pain Balm after his wife suffered eight weeks of severe back pain. She reported relief after a few days, regaining ability to perform household duties. The product is sold by R H Miller.
The pawnshop of Mexico is a recent comer in charity work yet has achieved notable success since opening. A 1899 official report shows over $3,000,000 in business, with 600,000 patrons and 500,000 loan transactions.
In Philadelphia Bulletin style notes, Keeter agreed to a life insurance policy write up this morning as his wife handles cooking at home. The remark suggests household changes influenced financial decisions.
In Old Town Virginia R N Keyill reports happiness after Buck Jen's Arica Salve wholly cured their daughter of a bad case of head ailment. The salve is advertised as effective for cuts corns burns bruises boils ulcers eruptions and piles and sells for 23 cents at Smith's drug store.
A humorous exchange from the Ohio State Journal recalls a choir pause during singing where a soloist misidentifies a bass solo as Mrs Fitz Fijjit-Who and the other replies that it was his bass solo.
A Ravena Republican report describes a large oak log being sawn when a horseshoe, rusted but well preserved, was found embedded after a plank and a slab were cut. The shoe likely nailed to the tree for hitching, the grain rings suggest it aged over fifty years. Novel conscription tests by French surgeon Pignet link chest, weight, and height to endurance and illness risk in a study of 500 men.
A French investigator concludes that military and naval brains fail fastest. He cites 199 per 100000 in army or navy as hopeless lunatics. Among liberal professions, artists are most affected, then lawyers, with doctors clergy literary men and civil servants following.
G W Roberts of Elizabeth West Virginia reports an old man with incurable cancer cured after using Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The ad asserts the remedies expel poisons and heal blood diseases, skin eruptions, ulcers and sores. Bitters cost 50 cents and the salve 25 cents at Smith's drug store.
Quotable exchange from Chicago Daily News: Favis asks about new clothes wringer delivery. Husbane the butcher quips that the line is likely the clothes line, not his trade. The brief dialogue reflects a light domestic pun in a published item.
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