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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1906
Page
8
An elderly woman, Lydia E Pinkham, offers free advice to women suffering from female ailments. Her in-law Mrs Pinkham invites letters to Lynn Massachusetts, promising confidential, woman to woman guidance from a vast experience base and advocating Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a trusted remedy.
The superintendent guides lady visitors through a penitentiary ward where three imprisoned women sew in a shared sitting room. A visitor remarks on the inmates as the superintendent explains they have no other home. Clyde Fitch quips about a drama heard by a French society committee. A playwright jokes that a sleeping man can still have an opinion.
An advertisement touts Garfield Tea as a mild herb laxative that cleanses the system and purifies the blood. It claims to promote healthy liver kidneys stomach and bowels, cure constipation and headaches, and emphasizes the value of nature over expense.
An old advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a one dollar reward for a cure that cannot be achieved. J Cheney & Co and Walding Kinway & Marvin promote internal remedies, claiming blood and mucous action. Testimonials promised, price listed as 75 cents per bottle. Also mentions Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
A 60-year-old former soldier claims thirty five years of severe eczema covered his body and resisted government medical verdicts. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent he reports complete cure and thanks to Cuticura. Also notes assorted ads and a tall St Ignace man captain with a tall family.
An advertisement extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure for nervous disorders caused by impoverished blood. It cites Mila Pater Morrissette of Alpena Michigan who after childbirth suffered paralysis fatigue and nervous distress then improved after two boxes. The copy notes cures for rheumatism anemia and post flu effects and lists price and mailing options.
President Roosevelt in Washington denounces muck rake sensationalism and signals possible push for a national inheritance tax. He contrasts moral decay with truth, courage, and generosity, warns against condoning evil in wealth, and urges accountability for corporate misdeeds and labor leaders.
Oskaloosa April 12 James Sparks a tramp claiming Cedar Rapids as home was run over by a Rock Island train yesterday and lost both legs. He was identified by local authorities and is being treated for massive injuries. The incident occurred near the railroad yard and rescue crews rushed him to a hospital.
Naples reports 60,000 homeless and property losses around 20 million dollars as ash and cinders blanket the city. King Victor Emmanuel witnessed ongoing tragedies in Ottajano while rescue efforts continue amid rising panic.
Fragmented OCR narrates a burglar’s aim at a locked safe and a chaotic kitchen scene. A cook and a voice with rough dialect discuss meals and danger as pots boil, objects misfire, and a character questions what is to be made with odd items in a tense, domestic frame.
A wedice practitioner in fie west at Treland treats a patient who claims the pills failed. The doctor questions if the patient took the whole box and the man admits difficulty swallowing. Dickens and Togers are referenced in a digressive tale about storytelling and a misfired dinner anecdote.
A phonograph served as evidence in a Boston railroad case, reproducing the elevated noise affecting a building. The owner claimed property damage from the railroad, but the court accepted the phonographic record as valid proof of the sound. Also, Mademoiselle Bertha Chevanne bought a prayer-hook at a sale and found a will worth $80,000 among her great aunt's effects.
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