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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1909
Page
8
Mrs W G Davis of Groesbeck Texas testifies that backaches dizziness and headaches eased after taking Deans Kidney Pills. She passed gravel stones and recovered fully with no return of trouble. Sold by all dealers 59 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Prof William Lyon Phelps of Yale lectured at West Point chapel as cadets watched a stray Irish setter roam the podium. The scene amused bystanders, highlighting how even the solemn setting could be unsettled by an unexpected dog.
Several scholars return to Sunday school after illness. A girl names measles and mumps, others agree. The superintendent asks Charlie what he had, and he blushes then proclaims in a high cry that he had a little brother.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer piece a medical man urges Madam to inhale deeply for better health. She retorts with a witty jab about tearing her fashion gown and exits in haughty fashion, leaving the scene with sharp sarcasm.
A New York woman recalls heart and stomach troubles from coffee. She quits coffee, switches to Postum, improves quickly, and urges others to try Postum for ten days to prove the benefits.
The piece notes a shift in White House media access under Taft from free informal briefings to appointments with topics stated in advance. It contrasts Taft’s personal rapport with reporters to a and dignified stance, limiting casual chatter while keeping intimate familiarity with Washington correspondents.
Gen Henry Corbin and Mrs Corbin, Chevy Chase residents, bring a Jersey cow named Bossy to the White House stables. President Taft and Mrs Taft greet the delivery, milk Bossy in the traditional way, and sample the fresh lacteal fluid. Housewives and cattle breeders have written urging butter and cheese tips, but Corbin notes the letters are not considered for Bossy.
Mrs Champ Clark, wife of the Democratic leader, is a frequent visitor to the House members’ gallery during the extraordinary session in Washington. The article highlights her intellect, domestic tastes, and active role in supporting her husband and the Congressional club, while noting her influence on new arrivals in congressional circles.
A Washington census bureau volume notes average family size fell from 6.8 in 1790 to 4.6 in 1900, with sociological insights on family life. It details early household compositions, child counts per family, and longevity trends among white Americans across the 1790 to 1900 periods, including some named families and longevity notes.
A collage of comic lines and a social note includes a burned engagement with Almira Stang and Charles Henry Tootwiler, a snow melted quip, a mock ad for Des Moines News, and a faulty medical pitch for Hall's Catarrh Cure. The piece blends jokes about work, money, and domestic schemes with dubious patent medicine claims.
A brief humorous anecdote about a groom offering 27 copper cents to a minister after marriage, claiming it as all Poe received, then joking about sending future children to Sunday school. The rest of the text promotes whimsical quips and product blurbs without a single clear event.
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