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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1905
Page
3
Rex and Charlie, roommates in Frisco, watch a mysterious man across the street. At midnight the man allegedly abducts a woman, applies a restorative, then hangs her on a wall peg. The gruesome scene ends with a headless wax figure revelation and a quarrel with a protective police officer.
A policeman, embarrassed and stammering, asks for a name to lodge a complaint while a professor and a ventriloquist entertain with a mechanical doll act. The ventriloquist explains the dummy is hung on the wall at night to keep rats from gnawing the wax.
A Philadelphia Record note questions Col Nicolas Pike as the first American author of an arithmetic. It cites Isaac Greenwood at Harvard and Hociter, with Greenwood's Supposed to be by and credited to Isque Greenwood, as earlier, in 1729. Pike’s 1788 arithmetic in Newburyport is not the first. Other foreign works appeared earlier in Boston and Norwich.
A lyrical devotional yearning for divine dwelling in the heart as night falls. The speaker pleads for Lord to enter the soul, to assuage loneliness, and to comprehend unspoken yearnings, seeking a sacred sanctuary in the inner life.
The Pekin Times reports drifting mines near Port Arthur menace shipping. The Hsinch from Tientsin sighted a mine. after failed rifle attempts, a mine was towed then exploded. Captain Pratt of the Yushun notes a mine exploded at 100 yards. A large spiked mine near Howski Island was fired upon and fragments landed on a vessel.
Comte de Castillon de Saint-Victor ascends in the Centaurs on June 7 with M. Joseph Jaubert director of Paris Observatory and Dr. Jelty. Other aerostatic ascents occur that day from Berlin Strasburg Barman Munch Vienina Zurich Roma and Trappes.
The canti lever bridge across the St Lawrence at Quebec will feature two approach spans of 210 feet each two shore arms of 100 feet and a central span of 1 800 feet the longest yet erected surpassing the former record by 90 feet Construction proceeds on the ambitious structure linking Quebec to the nearby shore.
Dobbs ponders fatigue and proposes a four hour trip to the late front to improve condition. Detroit Tribune notes the idea as a possible remedy.
Noted actress and playwright Odette Tyler expresses gratitude for Doran's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY in a signed note. Advertisement and humorous quotes accompany the piece, reflecting late 19th or early 20th century newspaper style.
A collage of quips from newspaper chatter and theatre banter. A pawnbroker and clerk joke about a woman in the case while a doctor’s role in treatment is debated. Henry Arthur Jones notes Tree’s remark on acting and poverty, with playful jests about wine and cigars.
Stop Babies Tears and other ads mix health claims and humorous quips. The entries promote Dr Caldwells Syrup Pepsin as a cure for infant stomach troubles, claim safety for mother and child, and advertise pricing and money back offers. Also included are miscellaneous quotes and notices about dating advice and travel guides with faint connections to medical or lifestyle topics.
A veteran warns readers about imitator products copying Postum Coffee. He notes 400 small cereal coffee factories started in four years, most failing as they misstate food values and misapply processing. Postum remains the original, trusted cereal coffee endorsed by doctors and users seeking to ease the coffee habit.
Widely praised letters claim Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures female illnesses. The ad argues it is a tonic that directly rebuilds the uterine system, restoring health and vigor. It lists conditions like irregular menstruation backache bloating leucorrhoea and ovarian troubles and urges women to seek guidance from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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