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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1913
Page
8
In Philadelphia two young studio artists share lodging while struggling financially. They cook meals in the studio, with one lamenting their condition and the other retorting that many suffer worse. A cited Harper’s Magazine anecdote about a recluse cooking for 19 years adds a grim note.
A fragmentary text discusses Castoria as a safe infant remedy and echoes old style dialogue about cheap talk and social visits. It records brief exchanges about a dressmaker, a telephone chat, and a remark on sacrifice for success, with a stray reference to two men pursuing fame.
A Windom Kansas resident shares how Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved her bladder and bearing down pains after trying friend’s advice. The ad claims the tonic benefits women’s health for nearly forty years and offers confidential guidance from a woman.
Florida’s Tallahassee era remembers Napoleon Achille Murat and his wife Kate Gray, a Virginia widow, who married in 1826 at Lipona plantation. The couple’s life bridged US and European nobility, with Murat serving as a Belgian officer and hosting lavish Bellevue entertainments. Their descendants and former slaves preserve the memory in Tallahassee and nearby Bellevue.
A European tale recounts how a meerschaum pipe gifted by Nicholas I to a retiring artist was colored in fifteen days after a Palace guard order. The guard, under threat of the knout, forced Cossacks to smoke other pipes, delivering the colored piece back with the inscription colored in fifteen days by order of Nicholas.
A fragment shows a chat about medical science and finances with quirky lines. It hints at a discussion on liquidation and a character named Homebody, but the readable text is limited and disjointed. The item reads like a stray dialogue excerpt rather than a complete story.
A garbled OCR fragment references Winslow's Boothing Syrup for Children, mentions gossip about a woman, parcel post, a ta rm bulldog, a cafe, pigs, and a glee club refrain. The text is fragmented and lacks coherent narrative or dates, yielding a snapshot of miscellaneous 19th or early 20th century newspaper snippets.
Mildred Lawson, a pretty American dancing girl, debuted in London last month. English critics praised her dancing but complained about the acantineca of her costumes. Lawson sent some of their remarks to a New York agent with a letter noting the fuss over her dresses and questioning the fuss about nothing.
Patient from Clarkfield Minnesota describes long standing dermatitis starting as pin sized red spots with dry scales. After trial of many salves, use of Cuticura Soap and a fifty cent Ointment cured the itching in six weeks. Signed H. O Gorden November 20 1912. Cuticura advertised with free samples and Skin Book offer from Boston.
A miscommunication over a horse sale leads to a quarrel as the buyer accuses the seller of false assurances about the horse being on hold and easy to manage. The seller defends the horse as spirited, likening him to a roarer, amid the dispute.
A landlord recalls a guest who praised meals rooms rates and scenery at a summer hotel but later complained that the accommodation did not meet expectations. The guest’s changing view highlights issues with services and comfort during the stay.
A fragmented item hints at a cryptic remark about a creature or force preying on minds. The wording suggests confusion or a misheard phrase, with references to hunger and attention, but no clear subject or event is established in the readable text.
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