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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1914
Page
4
A humorous ad style copy promotes Dr. Pierce's Pellets as a simple remedy for stomach liver and bowels with sugar coated ease. It contrasts an old horse waking with an alarm clock and references hazardous adventures in Africa and a marine remedy. The prose mimics a period sales pitch with puffed claims and ironic dialogue.
A long list of Oct events across Iowa includes church meetings in Maxwell Cedar Rapids Nevada Council Bluffs and Creston plus political notes on Dow City Republicans and Dubious candidates. It also reports hog prizes at Cedar Falls race casualties deaths burglaries robberies and accidents across Greene Muscatine Ottumwa Waverly Decorah and Bear Creek with mentions of court actions jail breaks and local civic changes.
Iowa's proposed vital statistics law would create registration districts in every city town and township with registrars to file birth certificates within ten days and restrict disposal of bodies without a registrar permit. The measure aims to standardize births for disease study heredity and property rights.
Massachusetts Representative Gardner recalls 600 French soldiers at Havre singing God Save the King and Belgians singing It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, suggesting a wartime brotherhood motif while on a trip back from Mingland. The remarks juxtapose Finglish and Gen eral Bingham phrases as a political aside.
Rev. Edmund Hestop of Wigh ton Pa suffered dropsy for a year with swollen limbs dizziness and fatigue. After using six boxes his swelling vanished and he felt renewed. He credits Dodds Kidney Pills and states he has not changed faith in the remedy. Correspond with Rev B Hewlop Dodds Medicine Co Buffalo NY for pills 60c per box Household Hints music and recipes all free.
Europeans held large American securities and, facing war crisis, demanded real money. They sold bonds at market price via American brokers, who cashed checks and obtained currency. The currency is secured by gold deposits in the U.S. Treasury, with gold certificates backed by actual metal. Brokers then sent the gold to customers abroad.
Old Charon ferries home when a stranger appears with papers from the interstate commerce commission. The official demand questions how public service corporations eliminated competition, signaling a tough winter ahead for these firms.
A lyric line about love ending with the ham as a metaphor, exchanged between Meg Gendorfer Blaeiter and another speaker. The fragment hints at relationship strain and a humorous demand for a larger ham in response to a dawning separation.
A minister's wife describes two years of coffee dependence during night nursing duties leading to bilious attacks and nervous strain. She quits coffee, starts Postum, notes improved clarity and steadier nerves after a year, and credits Postum with ending her ill effects. The ad promotes Regular and Instant Postum products from Battle Creek Michigan.
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