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Newspaper
Eldora Enterprise
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1898
Page
9
A simple illusion converts a glass of ink into a live aquarium. The performer shows the glass, covers it with a handkerchief, then lifts away a cork and thread hidden on a rubber cloth to reveal water with a fish. The ink is simulated by black rubber, already inside the glass.
An eminent judge recounts a baptism of colored people from his boyhood. He recalls the cold weather forcing immersion through ice. A female convert slips away, but the preacher remains calm and declares the sister hath departed band me down another.
Queen Christina of Spain is portrayed as an accomplished musician and composer who plays piano and violin, writes a lullaby for her son, and fosters young musicians. She aims to popularize German music in Spain by ordering classical works into military band repertoires.
The article notes Admiral Dewey and a visual survey of the US fleet, with images of Iitz bagh Lee Maise and others. It mentions the paper’s ad pages and Wins section and discusses improvements in American physique. A surgeon cites increasing height and strength, crediting athletic participation by both sexes and a shift away from sedentary styles.
The Treasury will print postage stamps at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing next year under a contract exceeding 62.5 million dollars. Ordinary stamps cost five cents per thousand, postage due at 1.14, and other stamps at 6.05 and 11.4 cents per thousand, with totals for ordinary, special delivery, newspaper, and postage due stamps running into tens of millions.
The Milford Ind item recounts Emma Rybolt, a bright Milford girl who suffered nervous prostration in 1806. After doctors failed, a Mrs Rybolt saw a letter praising Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People and Emma improved from April to May, gaining weight and strength. The testimony, sworn Sept 3, 1807, hails the pills as a cure for blood weakness and paralysis concerns.
Funerals on skates are common fifty miles south of Berlin in the Spreewald region with coffin carried on a sleigh while participants skate. Iceland uses snow shoes, Venice uses boats to cemeteries, and Kamchatka uses dog-drawn sleighs. Also mentions Allen's Foot-Ease, Pompeii relics at Boscoreale with frescoes and skeletons, and a note on a vast room in St. Petersburg measuring 620 by 120 feet.
A dated exhortation on maternal neglect and its harm, urging mothers to seek guidance for daughters from Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts. Included is a testimonial from Marte n Johnson of Centralia Pennsylvania detailing symptoms and recovery after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills.
Plaster substitutes advertised by J Substitutes for Plaster. The Manila Roofing Co of Camden New Jersey promotes bed ropes roofing for one cent per square foot and notes nails and cps included. Free samples available.
A vivid collage of yearned wonders and ads from a Kansas issue. A local statistician cites vast salt deposits in Kansas deep enough to salt the world for a million years while readers glimpse book trends, cures, and infant teething aid.
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