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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1898
Page
8
A German physician warns many eat too little and too infrequently, advocating a regime of small, frequent meals every two hours with milk, fruit, and light foods. He argues the stomach remains passive if meals are spaced long apart, leading to overeating and poor digestion.
An advertisement offers a $500 reward and a guaranteed cure for Nasal Catarrh Hay Fever and related symptoms. It claims to cure coughs and prevent colds with a vegetable salve available for 50 cents per large box, shipping free to the US and Canada from Dickson's Invincible Catarrh Salve Co. 2 E. 7th St St. Paul Minn.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets Candy Catalytic clean for skin clarity. It claims beauty begins with clean blood and liver function, promising to banish pimples and blotches for 10 cents, 0c, 25c, or 60c with satisfaction guaranteed.
A list of names and items tied to patents granted last week includes Peter Benson of Minneapolis with a guitar related design, John Bigelow of Minneapolis with a cigar-holder and tobacco pipe, Oscar K. Sletto of Fergus Falls with a belt-regulator, and Nicholas Hayden with others. Also named are BF. GC. Wurst of St. Paul for a calendar-casing design, Lizzig A. Rines of Minneapolis for a dress makers' rule design, and Nathaniel J. Rhields of Stevenson with a Springbed. Merwin Lothrop & Johnson serve as patent attorneys. Aditional items mention Allen's Foot-Ease and various promotional phrases.
Narrative recounts the San Juan assault near Santiago led by Gen Kent with Lawton Wheeler and Garcia supporting forces, detailing fierce Spanish resistance at El Caney, trench breaches, and American pincer success, followed by notes on Shafter’s dispatches and praise for his command. The page then shifts to the melodic prose of Hawaiian music notes and a humorous domestic monologue on weight and manners aboard a sea voyage.
An article from the New York advertiser describes summer fashion in dieting. It quotes Dr Tella discussing the biases of women seeking thinness or fatness, noting summer weight worries, vanity, and advice to walk ten miles and avoid certain foods. It highlights cases like Mrs A seeking a surgical diet and a thin woman lamenting her appearance.
A carnival of backstage tidbits includes Lian Russell as a poker fiend and Del Puente entering vaudeville. Max Figman’s mother dies. Modjeska finds home pleasures as a housekeeper. Berthe Waltzinger to sing in Jefferson De Angelis’s company. Eli Shannon’s grandfather a clergyman. Gilbert and Sullivan may reunite. Adolphe D Ennery at 88. Henry Esmond’s My Lady's Lord. Denver, aided by its high court, halts Sunday theatricals. critics urge a nationwide ban.
Father from Orrick Missouri writes that Ayers Sarsaparilla is the best medicine in the world after two bottles cured his daughter's fever and near blindness. The ad touts radical blood cures and urges readers to request the curebook from J C Ayers Co of Lowell Massachusetts.
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