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Newspaper
Benton County Times
Location
Vinton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
2
An old advertisement page extols progress from candles to electricity and horses to automobiles, touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Hall’s Catarrh Cure, and promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic and Allen’s Foot-Ease. It warns against substitutes, touts reputations, and notes local soapbox-style endorsements and generic health claims.
The article covers the Achemon Sphinx moth and its impact on Virginia creeper and grape vines, with advice on hand-picking as the best remedy. It details the caterpillar stages, color changes, and the moth’s distribution, plus a condensed Farmers' Review note on grain farming practices, seed quality, soil fertility, weed control, and grain stacking methods.
The article discusses proper orchard care to maximize profits, noting how middlemen often claim most gains. It cites Virginia’s example of a 750-tree orchard yielding $4,260 annually, and argues for sustained investment as apple prices rise. It also covers crop conditions, rising foreign demand, and the value of careful management.
A jumble of anecdotes and ads features Churchill quips at a South Africa supper, a Rockefeller encounter in a New York office, an old rail switchback tale, and Colorado excursion promos. The piece blends humor, business lore, and travel offers, peppered with brief moral bits and local color.
London Tit-Bits tells of William a hotel window cleaner who is fired for reading the paper but returns in Sunday clothes after being paid off. He impresses the manager who does not recognize him and offers 25 shillings to return as a window cleaner. William accepts and resumes his work.
A collage of light jokes and cartoons from old newspapers. The snippets cover domestic puzzles about gifts and spouses, misunderstandings over servants and money, and quips about politics and public life. Names are generic. the tone imitates late 19th to early 20th century humor.
A mixed client of items urges inspection of Wisconsin farming land along the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line in Marinette County as a better home choice than uncertain ventures with China. It touts crops, markets, climate and cheap land, urging readers to buy rather than rent, with agent contact in Chicago.
GNE will sell excursion tickets from Aug 25 to 29 for the 4th National Encampment in Chicago Aug 27 to Sept 1 1900. Return by Sept 1 with extension to Sept 30 for 50 cents. McKinley may attend. Inquiries to G W Railway or 113 Adams St Chicago.
Extracts describe benne leaves from Sesam Ind origin as soothing and healing. Early steamboatmen drank a benne todd to call it effective. Maguires report a chemical blend yielding a remedy claimed to treat cholera morbus diarrhoea dysentery and related ailments. Prepared by J and G Maguire Medicine Co St Louis Missouri. Congressman T H Ball renominated by First Texas district democratic convention.
A quip from the Chicago Inter Ocean mocks city men who claim they can “beat the world” and wonders what price they would pay for a wife and several children, reflecting a satirical take on urban bachelor life.
A fragmentary note appears to reflect Mrs Gates crying in public as she follows pink fashion and makes earnest remarks. The garbled text hints at personal distress and public attention surrounding her.
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