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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1901
Page
6
The Boston Journal recounts a humorous scene about a thermometer and an electric fan in a hot room. A boy questions whether motion creates heat, while the father, nicknamed Pop, explains that even answering questions generates heat, and the fan keeps running despite the heat.
A Benton physician Dr. R H Dunaway has urged patients with Rheumatism Brights Disease Diabetes and other kidney troubles to use Dodd's Kidney Pills for over a year. He published an open letter last May claiming his Diabetes cure and says the pills saved his life and that he must continue advocating them.
A Brooklyn court street car passengers an exchange ends with a passenger claiming no fault with the car or staff. The conductor and others respond with humor as the man objects to delays and car conditions. An advertisement follows for Piso’s Cure for Consumption praising its effectiveness for coughs and colds.
Eila-Bella as narrator recalls a secret shared in confidence and a warning not to repeat it. Stella accuses secrecy and a breach of trust. Weil is cited as the one who refused to disclose who passed along the information.
Ad touts Alien's Foot-Bace powder to shake into shoes. Claims test of feet, cures swollen sore hot callused feet, shedding nails, corns, bunions. says Allen's Foot-Hase makes new or tight shoes easy. Bold by druggists and shoe stores 25e. Mail order available from Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY.
The Wilkingburg resident and others quip about hailstones and eggs as a judge probes a past election. References include phrases about ostrich eggs and Shakespearean lines, with product plugs and comic exchanges interwoven amid the local chatter.
William Withers of Wakefield New York, former Ford's theater orchestra leader and eyewitness to Lincoln's 1865 assassination, recounts the night to a Sun reporter. He describes Booth's attack, the chaos, and Spangler's role, noting his own injuries and later life.
A El Paso Herald report describes James G Drumgold a long time enigmatic track walker seen along the Southern Pacific between Deming and Yuma and near El Paso. Officials say he is harmless yet mentally unbalanced, travels the rail line for nineteen years, and is known by several nicknames though his true name remains uncertain.
A Times-Democrat reader recounts a bay horse who masterfully slips its bridle to roam free, exploiting throat latch laxity and muscle flexing to exit a tether. The owner notes the animal’s cleverness, enjoys the hilarity, and accepts the Windsor-like stubborn habit, though it forces lengthy, muddy walks home.
An exchange in Washington Evening Star features a skeptical Orientalist calling the China man one of the meekest people, while a doubting friend counters that the Chinaman is the only person in the heat willing to go outside in public in his pajamas.
A Paris physician plans to inoculate himself with bovine tuberculosis to test the Koch theory. The joke imagines consequences if he contracts the disease and develops cowlike behaviors.
Fragmentary text reflects a proverb about not hurrying and doing one's best. The passage mentions a broad view of time and divine guidance, urging calm action and confidence in effort despite incomplete context.
A London column surveys incentives for breakthroughs from steerable airships to a universal horse bit substitute. Dumont’s airship bid and a 60 000 prize lead a list that includes a 15 000 yearly peacemaker fund, a 175 000 consump tion cure setup, Everest ascent for 25 000, and a 5 000 submarine prize.
J F E Blackburn of the Ohio Pure Food Commission argues against chemical preservatives in daily foods. He cites borax boracic acid salicylic acid benzoate of soda and formalin and urges prohibition citing risks to the average person despite rare cases of harmless use. He praises cold storage methods and prosecutes each case of preservative use in milk and cream.
An essay in Dairy and Creamery extols finishing touches in dairy farming and milk delivery. It emphasizes clean stalls and equipment, milking with clean dry hands, rapid cooling and proper handling of milk, careful feeding and water for cows, and neat delivery to build a premium retail milk trade.
Orange Jadd Parmer describes a compact never tip milk stool with a two inch pine seat and six by twelve inch dimensions. The design uses angled holes drilled nearly through the board and broomstick legs cut to fit, creating a stable spread leg arrangement as shown in the accompanying illustration.
The silo year promises high feed yields amid corn crop shortages enabling full use of crops that would usually be wasted. Silo owners can cut feed bills by avoiding high priced rains or mill feeds, while tomatoes picked early are of little value.
A Philadelphia Prison visitor questions a convict about his presence. The inmate explains it was a case of mistaken identity and notes the error was discovered too late, as another man had already been believed to be him.
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