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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1900
Page
6
A chaotic collection of patent medicine pitches and commercial blurbs rails against trusts, touts Maple City Soap and Morley’s Liver and Kidney Cordial, and promotes assorted tonics, pest powders, binders, and books. It includes endorsements and dubious statistics, with scattered misprints and marketing lines.
June 11 report says Gen Buller’s forces maneuvered to a position west of Laing's Nek, enabling potential pressure on Boer lines. Dispatch from Yellow Boom Farm June 8 notes Van Wyke Hill taken with light casualties, naval guns positioned, then Hildyard led a bold attack to outflank spurs between Botha's pass and Tukewela. No confirmed casualties in our ranks.
June 11 marked graduation week at the Naval Academy as sixty one cadets received diplomas and the elaborate evening bail completed the festivities. After graduation, other cadets will begin summer voyages on the Chesapeake and Newport, returning late August.
A garbled legacy of 19th century patent medicine ads touts Merjey's Wonderful Wight and Tayno's Family Medicine with claims of quick relief for pain and digestive issues. Separate notices advertise a Swedish minister in Chicago, a daily paper subscription offer, and Allen's Foot Ease powder promising shoe relief and mail order availability. The fragment ends with a moral line about forgetting self.
Clara Kopp quotes women healed by Mrs Pinkham's remedies and urges others to seek her advice. Casings include a Rockport Indiana resident praising the treatment for back ache irregular menstruation and nervous symptoms and a second letter from Cusna Kop stating improved health after using the remedy.
The executive committee of the committee of one hundred on India famine relief reported at the chamber of commerce that contributions reached nearly $60,000 since the group formed a month ago. A second $20,000 installment was sent to Bombay after Friday’s meeting.
Report from Paris states a duel may occur after a New York dispatch claimed the U S position at the Paris exposition is unfavorably reported. Seconds have been appointed between M Morin Guiliaix the builder and assistant architect, and M Henri Dumay the correspondent who sent the story to America.
Philadelphia June 11 the Pennsylvania railroad has secured control of the Philadelphia and Reading railway completing the partition of the anthracite coal territory between the New York Central and Pennsylvania systems. The move places the east coal business in the lands of practical trust.
A robber reached through a window at the New Orleans post office money order department and stole about $4,000 in bills from a pile inside the counter. Postmaster Pitkin suspects a single individual committed the theft.
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