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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1897
Page
8
A Kansas paper lampoons a church event where an embroidered nightgown was worn to represent a Roman toga. The mashed text details health ads and odd clippings including deafness cures, market pitches, and a joke about a pugilist and a concealed weapon.
Knoxville Iowa August news reports the Chicago Times-Herald correspondent meets his former friend Mr A D Conn in Pleasantville and relays Conn recovery from rheumatism via Dr Williams Pink Pills. Conn says he was bedridden, used crutches, and by 1896 could walk free of medicine after ample treatment.
Merit wine and the invention of Alabastine revolutionized wall coatings. A Devere praised the durable product, noting its global spread and the shift from cheap calciners as “kalsomine” falls out of favor. Advertising and use built strong trust, while critics warn against inferior substitutes. The London Times calls England a peace-maker amid a chaotic example.
Buffalo Times reports a peculiar Lahore custom observed by upper caste women. At about 3 a.m. they split into rival groups near a well in Wachewall bazaar and exchange cutting verbal abuse, drawing a vast male crowd. The contest lasts until daybreak before women reunite and resume daily chores, amid legends of Afghan invaders misled by the raucous “hagual” fight.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note recounts birds in strange tales. An Indiana engineer near Greensburg halted a locomotive to avoid a possible collision with an apparent large animal later found to be an owl dragging a lamb, nearly five feet long. At Anderson a sparrow survived being drawn into a knife factory wheel turning 130 RPM, clinging to a rod and enduring 31,000 revolutions before freeing itself, travelling about seventy three and eight tenths miles in the wheel’s embrace.
A collection of satirical maxims on gender behavior from the New York Press. It humorously notes a woman’s flirting before marriage, a man’s behavior afterward, and social cues about intellect, appearance, and taste. The commentary blends humor and social observation with references to Emerson, Oulda, and streetcar culture.
The Christian Union church at Rockport has an organ with enough volume to drown the voice of a fervent orthodox sister who tried to start a dispute with the minister after a liberal sermon. The German Emperor now has four sons serving as officers in the Prussian army.
A long advertisement style notice touts the Kava Kava Shrub, Piven Merivericum, from the Ganges region as a universal cure for kidney and bladder diseases and rheumatism. It claims 2,000 hospital cures in five months and offers free alkavia treatments via the Charity Kidney Care Co. Readers urged to mail name and address for a free trial.
The Northern Steamship company will inaugurate the fourth season of passenger service on the Great Lakes starting Tuesday June 13 with the eastbound ship from Duluth and sailings from Duluth on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Westbound departures from Buffalo begin June 18 with service on Tuesdays and Fridays. The North West and North Land are the sole exclusive passenger steamships on the lakes, drawing tourist travel to the northwest. Freight service resumes April 20 with the first boat sailing from Duluth.
Last week Northwestern inventors received multiple patents. Names include Frederick Blackmarr of Minneapolis for a pacuneile washer and Rucelph DBratka of Minnesota for a wind mill. Other patentees cover refrigeration can motor enlargers automatic checks and curing devices with several firms in Minnesota Iowa and St. Paul listed.
A fragmented excerpt shows a Telegram like note about the cold pushing people away and an organist confrontation. It mentions Peruviana kidney cure promoted by Peruviana Remedy Co. of Cincinnati with a free offer by mail. The readable lines suggest a 1900 era ad and social quarrel context.
A fragmentary Washington gossip note mentions Pilkington running a hotel in the Dakota di vorce colony with two beds in a room and cots in the hall. A Cleveland lender quotes casual chatter about his activities amid a tobacco habit cure advertisement and an endowment gift of $20,000 to McGill University in Montreal for a physiology chair from Walter Drake.
An article extols Kickapoo Indian Remedies as a life changing cure for women enduring chronic pain. A testimonial proclaims healing and weight loss after long illness, praising the medicine as a miraculous remedy and urging others to seek treatment.
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