13 Jul 1894
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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1894
Page
1
A fervent sermon extols the church as Christ’s garden with irrigating waters of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. It lauds virtuous Christians as flowering plants, contrasts harshness with gentle grace, and urges immediate conversion before the wreck of sin deepens.
An elderly locomotive engineer recalls a dramatic piano performance by a French musician. He compares the pianist’s control to handling a steam locomotive, imagining near misses, a crash, and a fatal outcome as the narrative crescendos into an eerie, unsettling vision of a deadly mishap.
An elderly man and companion watch cyclists at speed and discuss bicycle design. Experts explain adjustable handlebars let riders switch between upright comfort and forward-leaning speed. Turning up or down the handlebar alters balance, steering ease, and wind resistance, with roadsters favored for comfort and racers for speed. The article notes pictures show both positions.
A South ern storekeeper rents beds for forty dollars a day in a tiny town with no hotel. A religious scene unfolds with a parrot listening as a stern prayer is recited, ending with a sharp interruption and rhubarb of laughter. The odd episode shifts to a playful mishearing of names and faint gossip in a rural papercut narrative.
Count Leo, a three year old St Bernard owned by Mrs. L. M. Kirkpatrick, shows remarkable intelligence in a Chicago hotel. He understands spoken words, retrieves a silk hat, follows room numbers, and even plays piano with controlled barking. Leo’s feats include closing doors, identifying guests, and arranging towels, earning the claim from his mistress that he is the smartest dog in America.
A newly patented apparatus claims to help humans move through water rapidly. The design is light and flexible, attaching to the legs to aid propulsion, opening and closing with each stroke to increase underwater speed.
A tiny boy arrives at the country school and the teacher holds a preliminary talk. He asks why the boy comes to school and the boy replies that his mother says he should go to school because she cannot deal with him at home. The teacher subsides.
An OCR fragment blends poetry and satire with health ads promoting Dr Sage Catarrh Remedy and Syrup of Figs. It references a Professor De Science, a cross cultural clash, and extols medical elixirs for digestive and liver ailments while praising knowledge for comfort and improvement.
Kennedy’s medical remedy claim cites over eleven hundred cases with two failures and two hundred certificates within twenty miles of Boston. It promises a universal cure for humor disorders from scrofula to pimples, noting quick benefit from the first bottle and a final cure with proper dosage. The text urges readers to read the label and take one tablespoonful in water, with no diet change required. Druggists sell the remedy nationwide.
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