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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1900
Page
6
A fragmented collage quotes poems on Kentucky love and danger, mentions bystanders in violence, Great Lakes losses, and cures for deafness. It weaves references to rural Kentucky, political critique, and vintage remedies from Cheney and Morley’s ads, ending with a note on flannel care.
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as curing female ills and kidney troubles. It asserts medicines claiming universal cures lack specifics, while Pinkham's product is presented as proven to treat illnesses specific to women, supported by over a million women.
The Wayside Pond article from the London Spectator describes English rural ponds as refreshing but undercelebrated features. Ponds are shallow at the road, deep beyond, edged by oaks or elms, with roots extending below and trees arching over. Field ponds sit at fence junctions to water four fields, often overhung by briars, and water reflections influenced by leaves. In meadows central ponds appear especially beautiful. in water-scarce counties like Suffolk and Essex they are ancient and numerous, rarely linked to fame. Cattle drink at one end, and paths widen for access. Water plants such as water plantains and grasses thrive, while surface plants spread in all directions, offering a frost-crystal look. Hawthorns and pollard oaks shade these waters, where a hardy carp race survives through seasons, only killed by severe winters that freeze ponds edge to edge. In clay counties or arid areas larger ponds were partly naturalized or ornamental, with carp and tench rather than trout. Banks remain smooth, and tree plantings echo garden fashion from eighty years past. The quince camp of pondside trees, favored by ancestors, blooms pink in spring, gray leaves in summer, and golden fruit in autumn, picked after a bath that locals believed improved flavor.
The narrator recalls her quiet meetings with Nathaniel Hawthorne in a hall where she recited poems. He listened kindly, smiled with twinkling eyes, and even repelled cushions thrown by the roommate with a broom. The encounter ends with his subtle, gracious amusement captured by Atlantic Monthly.
In Cassell's Little Folks a story recalls a hippo escape during Mr A D Bartlett's reign as Zoo keeper. The hippo left its house and sought Bartlett, who ordered help. An elephant keeper fled toward the hippo's den, the beast giving pursuit until the keeper scrambled to safety atop a statue. Bartlett then closed the gate and the animal was recaptured.
A Ky mother reports that after using Murray's Saraparilia and Tron, her four year old daughter's eyesight and health were dramatically improved. Various ads follow for agents, tonics, and household goods, with claims of cures and financial opportunities.
A collection of testimonials from women across the United States tout Pe-ru-Na as beneficial for female complaints and various catarrh related ailments. Letters from Mrs. Hamilton of Columbus Ohio and others claim improved health, voice restoration, and relief after using the remedy. Dr Hartman of Columbus offers free treatment directions.
Anen-Solvent Co of Chicago Tl France advertises $4.00 a day plus expenses for agents selling their goods stating that many people need them. The note claims France has more persons over 60 than any other country, with Ireland second.
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