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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1901
Page
8
A collage of ads and notices touts a tobacco habit remedy discovered by Mrs Kay on High Street, Garfield Tea for vitality, Allen’s Foot Epidor for foot issues, Niagara Falls fame, Lane’s Medicine for daily bowel movement, and Maple City Self Washing Soap. The notices mix health claims and consumer products with generic opinions on work and worry.
A letter to the editor extols prairie immigration to Western Canada. It describes fertile Assiniboia and Saskatchewan districts with rich soil, high yields of wheat and oats, abundant hay, and favorable climate. Settlers report prosperity with minimal initial capital, and the Canadian government plans new districts open to homesteaders and buyers through rail and colonization companies.
Charles C. Carson of Highney Col protests using a portrait of Kit Carson for the State house. He cites his father’s Missouri youth and Santa Fe scouting career, noting Kit Carson’s marriage to Josephine Alamia and seven children, only three surviving. Carson died at Fort Lyons after moving to Arkansas valley in 1868 and settling at Boggsville.
An English 19th century writer argues that labor unions threaten England’s commercial decline by pushing wages up while shortening actual working hours. Union builders reportedly labor about eight hours daily with 50 hours weekly in summer and 47 in winter, yet vanish after noon Saturdays, returning Tuesday, wasting wages and delaying contracts.
In Pennsylvania coal country tensions rise as owners insist on keeping the current wage scale and deal with workers individually, skipping the Hazleton conference. Six hundred delegates urge President Mitchell and the executive committee to secure a joint meeting with operators before April 1 or, if needed, authorize a suspension of work.
Captain Connelly, famed for leading Company H of the Thirtieth Volunteers, is installed as captain of Manila's Metropolitan police. The force has three captains, nine lieutenants, and 700 American patrolmen, all dishonorably discharged? No, all honorably discharged US soldiers. They earn 75 dollars monthly. Connelly, a Chicagoan, volunteered early for duty in the Philippines.
Physicians claim baled potatoes beat other preparations for nutrition while cooked forms digest more easily when tried. Miscellaneous brand names and quippy aphorisms appear, warning against slips of the tongue and praising a fantasy remedy for rheumatism.
A periodical ad dense with medical claims urges women to use Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to cure nervous prostration indigestion and related symptoms. It cites Mrs Hartley of Chicago and other testimonials while promoting various patent medicines and remedies.
A old warning describes how buried winter germs awaken with sun and spread via dust in spring. It urges fortifying the body with Dr Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, citing a Hyde Park Vermont sheriff testimonial and inviting readers to contact 85 West 14th Street New York City for free advice.
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