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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1902
Page
8
An archaic advertisement touts a coconut of tonics and remedies for deafness linked to a blocked Eustachian tube. It promises one hundred dollars for cures and urges readers to request a circular from CTUENISY & CO. in Toledo. The copy mixes medical claims with unrelated product pitches and marketing tricks.
In Des Moines on January 3 1968 a joint senate and house caucus chose James H. Wilson of Adair county known as Prairie Jim to be successor trustee of the Agricultural College. Other candidates were J B Robinson and Silas Wilson. The caucus chair was Senator Hazleton with As mus Boysen as secretary. Yen votes were cast and Wilson won on the first ballot with Robinson and Wilson each receiving two votes.
A garbled notice from Des Moines Iowa promotes a tobacco exhibit at a local address. It hints at free prescriptions and stamps, mentions teachers and products, and includes scattered phrases about love and action. The readable fragments suggest a publicity stunt rather than a clear event.
A cottony mix of newspaper humor and health advice discusses dandruff myths and germ theories, then shifts to quirky tidbits about attorneys in rural Texas and a wartime exchange. It recalls a teacher’s sly classroom prank with a dogged cur and a biased classroom anecdote, ending with a parable-like note on leadership.
King of Elize proclaims twenty years of agony from lame back and kidney disease. He says after trying doctors he found relief with Jools Kidney Pills, reporting seven months of improving comfort and urging others with kidney disease or lame back to try the remedy.
Miss Marion Cunningham of Emporia Kansas testifies the Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her three year womb trouble and irregular periods. She grants permission to publish her testimonial with her photo and urges other women to seek the remedy for menstrual and related female complaints.
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