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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1911
Page
8
A collage of satirical product pitches and moral quips appears, urging readers to try Garfield Lea laxatives and brood-purifier with odd misprints. Johnny Williams’s mischief prompts Sunday school nostalgia. Plus a Market Hogs note contrasts weights from 1870s to 1909, noting hogs were heavier decades ago.
A brief dialogue features Wise asking about a striking veiled woman and Howe explaining the veil is to protect paint from blistering bun. The exchange emphasizes curiosity about appearance and a humorous cause.
A sermon exhorting readers to pray for the pastor, cooperate with church leaders, and support church activities. It urges filling pews, guarding speech, handling disputes biblically, and caring for neighbors. It contrasts sacred church life with worldly distraction and stresses personal commitment to the church. The piece cites the Lutheran Advocate and Gospel Herald as sources.
A garbled excerpt reflects religious contemplation on heaven and suffering. The text mentions pain sickness weariness and anguish of body or mind near the hand of a maker and hints at imperfection, decay, and burial imagery in a devotional tone.
Fragmentary note citing Rev Dr Kakin praising a church that loves God with all heart and strength. Mentions the poor and neglected, but lacks clear event, date, or location. Source readability limited. cannot determine full subjects or context.
A compact dairy operation on three fourths of an acre inside city limits yields a total annual profit of $329.02 from two pure bred Jersey cows. Milk production reached 16,560 pounds with 4 to 28 pounds daily in peaks, and revenue totaled $476.86 from milkSales at 25 cents per gallon while expenses ran $147.84 for cows and $37.92 for grain and feed.
Iowa Experiment Station tested forage crops for hogs on dry lot, bluegrass pasture, and clover pasture. Pigs gained similarly in weight, but clover pasture produced 748 pounds of pork per acre at a conservative $7 per hundredweight, far above bluegrass, showing clover’s value for hog pasture.
An older advertisement extols Resinol ointment and Resinol soap as cures for eruptive skin diseases many years past, claiming quick improvement and listing conditions such as acne herpes erysipelas and ringworm. It praises Resinol as a dressing for boils carbuncles felons cuts and other skin abrasions available at drug stores. A separate street anecdote recounts a landlady praising a neighborhood’s wealth by pointing to a mansion and whispering of “seven million dollars” across the street.
Distemper in all forms among horses and dogs. Spohn's Distemper Cure claims to cure and prevent the disease in stables. Over 600,000 bottles sold last year. Priced at 60 cents and 1 dollar. Sold by druggists or via Spohn Medical Co Goshen Ind. Agents wanted.
A child named Little Arlene, familiar with garden hoses, spots a long Mac of fire hose in the street. Her mother explains it is firemen's hose as two more fire companies arrive. The girl exclaims in wonder that more firemen are dragging their hosiery behind them.
A testimonial from Lincoln Bayidue Richardson of Rad Key Indiana describes severe back pain and “kidneys in bad shape” improving after using Doan's Kidney Pills. The ad urges others to try Doan's, sold by druggists and general stores, Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
A witty exchange between Privilege and Native features sharp dig on success and exile. Puck chimes in with a barbed line about never leaving the town and imagining what might have been elsewhere, a mirror of limited horizons and ambition.
An OCR fragment lists Castoria safety claims for infants, mentions Fletcher's Castoria with long signature, then random quotes and products including Garfield Tea and Whaslow's Boothing Syrup for children. It weaves ad lines with literary sayings and a garbled exchange.
An old Chicago notice extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female weakness and stomach trouble. A Newark reader shares a testimonial praising its effectiveness and urges others, especially during the critical period, to insist on the standard remedy made from roots and herbs.
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