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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1900
Page
6
A fragment claims rail links across Siberia will enable a London to Japan voyage in thirteen days and cites Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia indigestion constipation of liver and kidney troubles A Munster Germany high school aged 1100 years is noted.
An assorted page features quips about cats and poets, a self supporting stocking design, a North Australia cannibals lecturer label, society bets about Mr Cecil Rhodles and a Lady Nobody. Advertisements push Morley’s Liver and Kidney Cordial, Adams Pepsin, Allen’s Foot Ease, medical books, and cures for various ailments. A Minneapolis excursion offer, Piso’s Cure for Consumption claim, and a lavender tinted whiskers factory dye conclude the miscellany.
Bremen reports three more American residents of German origin targeted by authorities for visiting homeland. John F Heumann from Savannah aged 16 emigrated 15 years ago and was limited to Bremen for a week after a dispute with local officials. Fritz Dillens of San Francisco confined at Drakenberg. Jacob Knosallo from Montevedio detained near Posen and drafted into the German army. Const Diederich will seek embassy action in Berlin.
Paris dispatch reports the sixty seventh day of the exposition with Americans criticizing the U S national pavilion. Ninety nine of 144 observers say its contents are unworthy when set against German British Italian Spanish Russian Hungarian Austrian Bosnian and other pavilions. Beneath the pavilion is a third class American restaurant with French waiters offering no American wines porterhouse steaks terrapin or buckwheat cakes.
Lieutenant General Miles witnessed tests of new ordnance and small arms by Dr. Samuel McClean near Cleveland. A monster clip fired five one pound shells rapidly from a bicycle tripod mounted gun, with all shells airborne at once, drawing praise for the trial.
William Payne writes from Sault Ste. Marie to advocate migration to Prince Albert district of Saskatchewan and surrounding areas. He details farm and ranch prospects from May 1899 to spring 1900, noting rich soil, abundant water, timber, mills, and active labor demand with wages 1.75 to 2.00 dollars daily. He praises crops, crops along the river valley, and reports five to ten year paths to a stable home while offering further information through government agents.
A garbled advertisement page promotes Carter's Ink Allen's Foot Base Parxyn's Ware Kalsan Kemp's Balsam Maple City Soap and Putnam Dye among others. It touts cures for foot ailments lockjaw soothing syrups and various consumer goods with pricing and mailing notes. Also notes faded bats color restoration and daily newspaper subscription offers setting a busy, promotional tone. It includes references to Morley’s Wonderful Eight and Walter Baker & Co products alongside generic claims and testimonials.
Prohibition convention set for Chicago June 27 28 1900 with tickets on sale June 26 27 Democratic convention in Kansas City July 4 1900 tickets on sale July 2 4 The Maple Leaf Route of Chicago Great Western promotes vestibuled trains free chair cars and one fare round trip Contact agent or F H Jord GP & T A 11d Adams St Chicago Also various ads urge health cures liver kidney remedies Morley’s Liver and Kidney Coral and Maple City Self Washing Soap claim benefits and warn of back pain and warnings about disease progression
A dated health advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham as an expert on female ailments with over a hundred thousand annual cases handled, claiming twenty years of constant success. It urges women to use the vegetable compound and write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for guidance.
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