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Newspaper
Benton County Times
Location
Vinton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1899
Page
3
A testimonial letter campaign promotes Mrs. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure and aid for women experiencing menopause and related urinary and weakness issues. Letters from Mrs. M C Grips Fine of Georgeville Missouri and Mrs. F H Allen of Toledo Ohio praise relief, urging others to write for advice and help.
A jumble of old patent medicine claims and quack cures, promising deafness relief via constitutional remedies and Hall's Catarrh Cure. Includes claims of The Great Nerve Restore and various pills, with stray quips and a rugby anecdote.
A compact reflection on artists and writers who routinely reuse glue and dye in their tools, noting the shared habit of pasting, staining, and recalibrating their brushes and pens as part of lifelong craft.
A Western Canadian letter to Mr. T Hawkyard of Rockford Illinois describes weather, crops, land, stock, and prices in Alberta. It covers snow, cattle, timber, housing, rails, land fertility, wheat and oats yields, fruit, poultry, hogs, and tool and shipping guidance. It notes potential migration, break timing for work, and advised travel and farming plans.
A powder car explosion near Everett Washington killed one tramp and wounded two others. In Indiana Mrs. Hanora Reidy, 89, burned to death at her home while family away. Westfield Wisconsin hearse wrecked at Postmaster Lawton’s funeral, casket uninjured. Milwaukee casualties from a crash left John Gruber his wife and daughter Melania seriously injured. Dow & King flour mill burned in Pittsfield causing $110,000 loss. Singmaster & Ward horse barn fire killed four Percheron stallions. San Francisco warehouse and factory complex damaged in a $360,000 blaze. Henry Lapin and wife burned to death in Philadelphia home. Fair Haven Vermont fire destroyed near $100,000 in property. Allan Line Cas tilian wreck inquiry censures two officers. Norseman steamer ashore at Marblehead life-savers rescue cattle and passengers. Cairo Illinois engineer James Tuttle and two tramps fatally scalded at city pumps. Evansville men identified as Fred Rofink and Frank Applegate. Alkire’s Mills West Virginia man badly burned by lightning. Sioux City Iowa fire destroys twelve houses and M Barron’s livery stable, $5,000 loss.
Paris notes Loubet at Auteuil races warmly greeted by crowds. Madrid reports Count de Villagonzalo named Spanish ambassador to Great Britain. London reports Hongkong seeks more land for government use and actress Rose Leclercq dead. Constantinople hosts US minister Oscar Straus in cordial audience with the sultan. London confirms multiple diplomatic and local crime items across Europe and America including hangings, arrests, fires, and embezzlement cases.
Miss Barker teaches a West Side Baptist class of boys aged 6 to 8 with patient methods. The article shifts to humorous and humane anecdotes about a Paris physician and driver ants, then surveys literary pieces, serials, illustrations, and fashion coverage in Harper's magazines and related journals.
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