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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1911
Page
8
A dated ad style piece touts Cascarets as a cure all for health decline blaming mind and system failures. It claims toxins clog the body and liver and promises relief and cure from constipation. The language reflects early 20th century sensational advertising.
In a brisk exchange, a man refuses payment as I M P Cuntus recounts owing his tailor $100 while another claims only $10 settled, prompting a terse replay about the debtor Goetz Dunn and the tailor creditor.
The witness offered little. the lawyer pressed Captain Sampson about the accused’s condition when picked up at nine o'clock. The captain admitted the man was among the wettest and meanest he had seen, hinting at a harsher view had he been asked earlier.
A doctor explains that convalescent influenza includes slight irritability. A wife recalls her husband’s reaction after she refused steak and onions, noting he smashed fourteen soup plates and a dinner service before she intervened.
Dialectal local item swaps tales of a bet on quick fullness after meals. A comic exchange questions the doctor’s patience and the time saved, with humorous reference to Molke and a speedy solution for stomach trouble.
A Wisconsin woman recounts relief after quitting coffee and starting Postum for breakfast. She describes years of sick headaches and heart pains, smothering feelings, and indigestion that vanished after abandoning coffee and adopting Postum, with renewed health and energy reported.
The Thirty fourth General Assembly of Iowa adjourned after a lively session noted for a long senator fight ending on the sixty seventh ballot. About eleven hundred bills were introduced with many killed and major actions on taxation education roads and municipal measures shaping state policy.
The general assembly enacted concurrent resolution to print and distribute the road and drainage laws throughout the state. The governor's office and state agencies are directed to ensure publication promptly and widely to inform all areas.
Traveling through Iowa and neighboring states reveals land values climbing from 250 to 225 dollars per acre, a trend echoed in Illinois Indiana Wisconsin and Minnesota. In Canada prices jump three to five dollars an acre amid a surge of 326000 Americans seeking farms, drawn by virgin soil and nationside demand aided by rising acre under crop and receding labor needs.
A father explains to his son the old saying about a woman “setting her cap” for a man. He notes that if she shows her bonnet she knows the price of love may scare him away, illustrating courtship customs in plain language.
An established factory plans to open a distributing office in this district and other unoccupied territory. They seek a resident distributor with 200 to 8000 dollars cash, stock on hand for immediate orders, monthly compensation of 100 to 200 dollars plus extra commissions and office expenses per contract. Permanent arrangements and references required. Write promptly to Liberty Manufacturing Association, 230 West Huron St., Chicago.
Mrs Melissa Hodgson aged 75 years runs four rooms in the weaving department at York Manufacturing in Saco Missouri and says she is the oldest weaver in the country She began work at the plant 55 years ago in the middle of the month
Saskatoon seeks poultry farmers market gardeners dairy farmers and hog raisers as prices rise and demand outpaces supply. Opportunity to write to the Commissioner Board of Trade Saskatoon Saskatchewan Western Canada. Also includes a fragment about Jobbie and Euripides with a note on a hangup lace curtains and a sympathetic wife.
The returned wanderer proclaims he has the fortune to pay off the farm mortgage, but the farmer calls it hard luck and prefers the man to be broke and working for wages. The exchange highlights rural hardship and different views on debt and work.
Aseptazone advertised for poultry illness cures cholera bowel trouble roup and canker. Instructions say dissolve one ounce in a gallon of warm water and give a tablespoonful to the flock through drinking water.
A fragmentary item notes a budding star with remarks about Mary Anderson Wombat’s dramatic talent. A classroom aside mentions a girl’s recitation and gestures while a dismissal line references a product claim for Garfield Tea aiding constipation and overall health.
The text notes spring fatigue as common with warming weather, a loss of vitality and vigor signaling possible illness. It warns it affects active people who must keep moving, and advocates the great constitutional remedy as the best medicine to take.
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