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Newspaper
Benton County Times
Location
Vinton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1900
Page
3
An OCR fragment shows a jumble of 1900 era ads and notes praising flying machines with a government budget mention of 25000, alongside testimonials for Jacob Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Cascar ets, Allen’s foot ease, Piso’s Cure, Parker’s Hair Balsam, and other tonics. It references Minneapolis and a date June 6 1900. The mix reads like a chaotic newspaper page of ads and notes.
A prose exhortation on woman’s duties from dawn to age, urging balance of home life and strength. It stresses graceful movement and regal dignity for women and cherishes mothers who guard energy for family education. The piece ends promoting Pe-ru-Na as a strengthening tonic for a weary world.
A detailed condensation from the Farmers’ Review covers dairy and poultry care, milk and cream handling, aeration, and testing, plus a Missouri poultry and egg shipment snapshot. It includes notes on milk fever experiences, breeding trends, and the economics of poultry, horses, and mules, with regional examples from Tennessee and Quebec. It also discusses lamb fattening, soil fertility, and milk inspection laws, highlighting safety enforcement and the impact of drought on adulteration controls, ending with Pearl Millet as fodder and food crop.
A collage of anecdotes and aphorisms with varied local color. It recalls Lincoln, Italian court life, and a Lowell moonlit moment, then pivots to humorous social maxims, health puffs, and odd trivia about paving blocks and teeth. Diverse scraps mix fiction, satire, and advertising.
Two years after Lieut. Robert E. Peary began his Arctic expedition from Greenland, no message has arrived. The steamer Windward sent for his relief is disabled at Port aux Basques, and vast ice floes along the Labrador coast hinder any possible rescue. Ice blocks 200 vessels and thousands of fishermen, making a North Pole breakthrough unlikely this season.
Hiram Jackson Pierce known as Old Hi Pierce, nephew of President Pierce, died in New York at age 74 after a life of gambling and bowling fame. Born in Massachusetts, he rose to wealth, but losses began with diphtheria claims, spiraling into alcohol and decline. He drifted through New Orleans, boats, and saloons, ending with liver cancer and a farewell to friends.
An elderly former public figure in Washington recounts a fall from prominence. Once prominent twenty years ago his signature adorned key documents, now he sleeps in parks and sells medicines to survive, awaiting a quiet, obscure death in a city of shifting fortunes.
The Mexican census shows a population of 12,491,573 with over two thirds unable to read or write. More than 60 percent are of mixed and Indian races, and sixty three languages are spoken among the people.
Dr G S Stivers of Louisville Kentucky testifies his wife endured two years of severe neuralgia before Morley’s Wonderful Fight relieved the pain in five minutes and led to a permanent cure. Sold by agents in every town.
News of the 4th national Encampment at Chicago from Aug 27 to Sept 1, with excursion fare one fare for the round trip via the Chicago Great Western Railway, sale Aug 25 to 29, return by Sept 1 or Sept 30 with 50 cent extension, and McKinley expected to attend. Also scattered ads and notes on dyes, soaps, cures, and farming prospects in Wisconsin rail line promotions.
Letters from women published in this paper continually reveal experiences with the famed remedy. Readers describe relief and concerns, reflecting opinions on its efficacy and role in personal health discussions.
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