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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1915
Page
4
Advertises Cascarets as a night time remedy to cleanse the stomach remove sour undigested food and foul gases. Claims to help headaches biliousness coated tongue foul breath and sluggish liver by morning with a 10 cent box. States the product works while you sleep and leaves head clear stomach sweet and bowels regular for months.
A girl by a wayside inn laments a penny stuck in a slot machine. A motorcyclist offers aid and inserts six different pennies, but the machine yields nothing. He leaves poorer but hopeful. The girl's mother asks about Kate, who boasts the tenth customer and three dollars netted so far.
Uncle Rastus, living in a bungalow near a large town, discovers a broken gin bottle on Easter weekend. He laments the loss with a mournful claim that "Dar' Eastvh come an' gone" as onlookers gather and ask about the accident.
The secretary of agriculture approved grazing in California national forests for 1915. Authorized numbers include 212,280 cattle and horses, 605,750 sheep and goats, and 7,950 swine, a sizable increase from 1914. About 935,000 acres were removed from permits during the year, with a note on worker shortages humorously cited as more men with blockheads than wooden logs.
A nurse testifies to Grape Nuts benefits for patients of all ages and states it is calitate and pleasant. She describes a recipe mixing soaked Grape Nuts, water, beaten egg white, and fruit juice for nourishing, easy on weak stomachs. The nurse notes her husband, a physician, also prescribes Grape Nuts for many patients.
A curious crowd invades the gate guarded estate of Judge Ostrander chasing a veiled woman who enters through high barriers. The judge learns of Averill, a veiled lodger, while Bela dies and Ming Weeks briefs on events. Ostrander seeks an interview with the woman as Mrs Yardley hints at hidden ties.
Mrs Yardley reveals herself as Averill, a Detroit widow and mother of Reuther, seeking aid to save her daughter from despair after the blocked engagement to Oliver Ostrander. The judge confronts the deception and weighs the peril to Reuther, offering five minutes to decide. The scene closes with the plea and a postponement of judgment.
A Balakehin, a Russian farmer leader, heads the world’s largest farmers union spanning from the Urals to Mongolia. He built a butter making industry serving England, guiding about 300,000 peasants who lovingly nickname him “the little grandfather.”
German statistics show before the war 14.6 million people under compulsory sickness insurance, 24.6 million under compulsory accident insurance, and 16 million under old age and disease insurance, excluding several millions of salaried workers added by recent law. This reflects the rough deal for the average German workman amid broad secrecy and coverage across industries and trades.
Population of British India is given as 291,086,108 with note that figures are about ten years old. The text discusses adjusting estimates to approximate current percentages and references demographic definitions.
A Denver resident J A Howland testifies to the benefits of Dr Kilmer Swamp Root for chronic lumbago and kidney issues. He praises the remedy as an absolute cure and urges others to try it, noting a notary public confirmation and offers for a sample bottle with ten cent request.
An English correspondent in Washington recalls attempting to interview Lord Kitchener, then war minister. After dinner in a hotel lounge, Kitchener refused interviews, saying he never gives them and never intends to. The journalist persisted, asking for an autograph, only to be told to “make your own autograph worth having.”
An old ad extols self shampooing benefits and Cuticura Ointment for the skin scalp and hair. It promises creamlike emollients for skin scalp hair and hands and offers free samples by mail via Cuticura Department XY Boston with requests by postcard.
A young lady with a severe lisp works with a specialist to improve speech. After practice and expense she performs a private rehearsal flawlessly saying the tongue twister. She admits the line remains a notably difficult remark to weave into conversation, especially with a sister named Susan.
A garbled exchange mentions an anti cough remedy and druggists. Green recalls buying a book in a gold mine last summer while Brown asks about the result. The fragment hints at a casual reminiscence and a missing outcome.
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