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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1917
Page
10
A Marine Corps correspondent recounts training at League Island where raw recruits learn rifle anatomy. One recruit envisions balance as missing after inspection, prompting a stern correction. The tale highlights discipline and the push to master weapon knowledge among future sea soldiers.
Washington announces a government campaign to kill rats seen as damaging lives and property. It cites food loss exceeding two hundred million dollars annually and promotes Stearns Paste as the fastest, most reliable home remedy for households troubled by rats mice roaches or waterbugs.
A colored citizen declares to his board chairman that he has no wife, is only test engaged, and questions jail. The Harvard University medical school opens its doors to women students this year.
The New York Sun quotes Mr. Moore who admires the Adams Memorial by Saint-Gaudens in Rock Creek Cemetery. He argues it is the most seen statue in Washington due to its mystery and facing the greatest of all mysteries the question of life after death.
The ad touts Warner’s Safe Nerve as a non narcotic remedy for nervous debility, sleeplessness, irritability, and neuralgia. It claims quick relief from nerves related distress, promotes restful sleep, and is sold by druggists with a dime sample. A brief note mentions a Saxon French cigar lighter tax in France and public impact on smoking habits.
An elderly man complains about the early wake up and hard labor of shoveling coal for the furnace. He mocks the burden while a companion calls the coal’s glow “pretty lid” before noting the challenging task he must perform each dawn.
The text mocks wartime taxes with a joke about paying six cents for a nickel cigar and suggests others may price four cents to target a nickel. It then comments on women’s beauty, noting many are less stunning than they imagine.
In a sermon by Rev. Francis J. Clark D D, the Joseph narrative is used to illustrate how partiality among Jacob's sons sparks envy and strife, how forgiveness and aged wisdom temper the feud, and how love described in Corinthians offers the sole cure. The preacher warns that without love quarrels end in divorce or murder, urging daily prayer and steadfast charity in family life.
The text urges living kindness toward friends before death. Do not delay praise and comfort to brighten their hours, foregoing flowers after loss. Anoint friends with preemptive sympathy to ease the burden, while life and hearing remain.
A jumble of comic vignettes and gags from a periodical: a man inside a London fish market mocks a woman with linguistic jabs about parts of speech. Senator Chamberlain defends a food bill amid sharp attacks. two boys at a movie theater riff on emotions and politeness. and a tailing joke about an eighty five player. The tone is humorous and colloquial.
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble with many misdiagnosed as unrelated ailments. The ad claims Swamp Root restores kidney health, urging readers to buy a bottle or mail ten cents for a sample, directing letters to Dr Kilmer Co. in Binghamton.
Rides in an Auto, Mrs Stussell Sage, now past eighty eight, recently consented to ride in an automobile. The remark suggests happiness is not guaranteed by wealth, as poverty’s path remains rough.
President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor opposes women in war work while Commissioner Williams of New York proposes penalties for householders who waste oily water.
A cautious Bilson is questioned by Tin McPherson the undertaker. Tin, seeking introductions, noises about a possible death at Bilson’s place. Bilson reassures and welcomes the contact while maintaining a wary tone.
An old advertisement promises $100 for a cureable case of catarrh not cured by Hall’s Catarrh Medicine. It claims the medicine is taken internally and works through the bloodstream on mucous surfaces, noting sales by druggists for over forty years. The note lists J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio as the company.
A fragment notes a brief exchange about profits from radishes and a lighthearted remark on gaining at least twenty cents worth. The quote attributes the line to Tye, reflecting a small farm or household economy detail in a period newspaper snippet.
Henry Boyle donated a building valued at 115000 dollars to St Norbert College located in De Pere Wisconsin, a gift that supports the college’s facilities and programs.
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