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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1901
Page
8
An old time medical pitch touts a cure for catarrh as a constitutional remedy. It promises a blood based treatment and rewards with one hundred dollars for testimonials. Also promotes various dubious tonics and quack cures with mock testimonials and odd lines.
An array of fragmented items notes dandruff linked to shared brushes and suggests using Nowbro's Herbal or similar products to prevent contagion. Other fragments discuss volcano energy, John W. Gates, Thomas Lawson, Richard Wagner, and local notices from Wabasha Minnesota about Dodd's Kidney Pills and cures.
A newly discovered plant species traps and digests animal food using a double leaf mouth and a sticky throat. Insects are ensnared and liquefied by gastric-like juices, nourishing the plant. The plant can digest small pieces of beef, fish and egg gelatin, but not starches or fats.
Readers learn of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec railway across southern Mexico joining the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific. The 180 mile line runs from Coatzacoalcos to Salina Cruz with a maximum elevation of 70 feet, promising to contest world east west trade as petroleum fuels engines locally.
A prehistoric ovate bog canoe six feet long and three feet wide was unearthed five miles from Dun Sunnon in Tyrone, with a ringed bow for mooring and two stern rigs. A well preserved woman's body was also found nearby, believed to be in the bog for around 200 years before discovery.
The piece debunks enduring Civil War lore that Lee offered his sword to Grant after Appomattox. It cites Grant’s memoirs denying any conversation or transfer of property. The author notes Mrs. Jefferson Davis revived the claim, but Grant’s account labels the surrender moment as a romance with no such exchange.
Lady testimonial letters praise Peruna as a cure for bearing down pains backache and headaches with a claim of rapid recovery. A large public notice outlines free women’s treatment at Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio with confidential records and no charges. Also includes assorted ads on starch and household goods and a claim of German toy imports in 1900.
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