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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1900
Page
8
W. D. Quinn of Marseilles Illinois writes about a severe illness causing hair loss. He credits Ayer's Hair Vigor with restoring his hair and freeing him from being among the bald headed.
The advertisement asserts Ayer's Hair Vigor makes hair grow by feeding it as a hair food. It claims to stop hair loss, remove dandruff, and restore gray hair color, priced at $1.00 per bottle.
The piece notes the book Glimpses Across the Sea by Sam T. Clover, with the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway purchasing an edition for distribution. Readers are invited to send six cents for a copy and postage, via Geo H Heafford, General Passenger Agent in Chicago. It also highlights ads from John M Smyth Co and various household goods promotions.
A New England Home Magazine piece narrates Archduke Henry of Austria and his romance with an actress in Buda Pesth. It traces how rank, marriage, and royal prerogative shaped loyalty, legitimacy, and the path from soldier to exile, ending with Elizabeth's plea and the emperor’s pardon granting nobility to the actress.
The piece recalls a performer’s stage career from ingénue to principal boy and later leading lady, highlighting training behind the scenes and stagecraft. It also references morganatic marriage in Austria, warning of the House of Hapsburg’s history and speculative outcomes of such unions.
The London Telegraph notes that Germany has shown dramatic urban and industrial advancement, with Berlin surpassing New York in growth rate, Hamburg tripling its population in 25 years, Cologne doubling since 1880, and Leipzig outpacing San Francisco. Eastern peasants move west as wages rise and hours shorten, while emigration wanes and municipal improvements soar.
August Rougeaux, a Salisbury area farmer, lost a hog last September. After three months of search he heard a grunt near a haystack and found the hog under the haystack alive yet skeletal. It had survived on scraps and without water during the entire period.
Rev. Charles Harvey of Waton Indiana warned his congregation in a sermon that it would be his final address. Although he felt well, he fell ill with a malignant fever and died the following Saturday, ending a ministry marked by foretelling his own death.
Iowa Attorney General Remley presented sweeping criticisms of current building and loan and insurance laws to the state senate, calling out numerous firms as operating illegally and targeting the sector’s poorer investors. He recommends extensive changes to licensing, stock guarantees, assessment rules, liquidation provisions, and stronger executive powers, plus tighter insurance company oversight and policy terms to protect holders.
The populist party will hold its next national convention in Sioux Falls on May 9. Sioux Falls, May 9. Representation is based on the 1892 vote for General J. B. Weaver or, if a later statewide candidate led by a larger vote, that count. Each state receives two delegates at large. The decision came from a largely harmonious fusion wing meeting of the national committee that concluded yesterday.
A collection of short reflective lines on hunger as a cure for love, memories, coal prices in cold weather, cynics among the successful, problem solving under constraint, hotel towel ethics, and happiness sparked by the unexpected.
A meeting of major paper manufacturers in Chicago warned of a severe pulp shortage risking mill shutdowns. They cited scarce wood pulp, heavy timber cuts, Canada supply cuts, and mild weather delaying harvests. A new fiber substitute was discussed as the only plausible solution to avert widespread disruption.
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