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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1907
Page
5
A compact lyric fragment by Thomas D Arcy McGee laments art and national devotion. The speaker rejects worldly fame for honest native verse. He imagines Ireland’s landscape, longing to fly to his homeland and feel the western wind.
In a Patrick's night gathering, an Italian organ grinder pleases a crowd with The Wearin' of the Green as Mollie McShane recalls John gone to war. A lone memory of a Kerry girl, love, and a grave on a Transvaal kopje shadows the scene.
On a crowded platform Annie hugs her sister and brother in law as the eastbound train waits. Tears fall for Katie and Hannah, but Annie, bound for Erin, hopes tears are bad luck. She envisions a long journey toward home across the sea, toward old rooftrees and the bright lights of Ireland.
State Capitol items report the Jones uniform fire insurance policy bill passing the Iowa House by 69 to 11 after committee support. It adopts a New York form simplified for Iowa and limits confusing policy clauses. Also covered are Paterson’s stock value bill, sleeping car rate reform, minority representation on corporate boards, and other bills from the session.
A well known authority claims kidney and bladder issues commonly improve with a home made mix of Fluid Extract Dandelon half ounce Compound Karyon one ounce Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla three ounces. Take a spoonful after meals and at bedtime. Mix by shaking in a bottle. Obtain ingredients at any good pharmacy.
A. G. Wise, secretary of the St Helena committee in London, says post troop withdrawal the island faces bankruptcy with inhabitants left to catch rats for two cents a head as the sole occupation. The statement highlights local hardship and government response amid colonial withdrawal.
An 1906 testimonial from Hydropolis Louisiana touts Cuticura for chronic eczema turning complete recovery after using all three Cuticura products. The ad ends with a moral quote about reading and thinking and a fur trade notice from Minneapolis. A humorous tale about Harker and an impromptu intruder follows, then a note on the Belgian king’s travel incognito.
A Philadelphia woman reports her family’s health improvement after eight years of stomach trouble. Her husband’s digestion also improved, and their three and nine year old children prefer Grape-Nuts for breakfast. The Postum Company of Battle Creek, Michigan promotes its product with this testimonial and a pointer to Wellville.
Fragments include odd aphorisms on dyes and self reliance attributed to Lycurgus and Garfield quotes on health. Mentions of Mrs Winslow's soothing syrups claim to ease teething pain and wind colic. The text reads like a miscellany of patent cure claims and antiquated proverbs.
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