Millions for a New Stomach Prophecy of digestion and wealth
An old American ad recounts a rich man offering a million dollars for a cure as a commentary on happiness tied to digestion. It extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery from buffalo, claiming it strengthens digestion, blood quality, and overall health without alcohol or narcotics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
The
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Yo
Dr. Pierce
Iowa News Roundup From Ames To Marshalltown
Interesting items from across Iowa report the state corn and small grain show at Ames January 8-9, husking near Maquoketa, wartime memorial dedications in Marshalltown, and a new Charlotte News debut in Clinton county. Also notes on Leman Nelson’s injury fundraiser, price cuts on pies in Decorah, a jail sentence for robbery conspirators, hand losses from a shredder, school dismissals for harvest help, a habeas writ in Sac City, a Des Moines apoplexy death, a cooperative farmer supply firm at Auber, a Clarinda junior high fire, a Sioux City manhunt for masked bandits, and Henry Field hog sale records at Shenandoah.
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Maquoketa
Warmers Mutual Telephone Company
Clarinda
M. Lantz
Charlotte News
Clinton County
Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
American Legion of
Lenox
Leman Nelson
Decorah
Fred ‘Clark
Fred Berry
Nevada
Andrew Jorgenson
Adam Olinger
Valga City
Behool
Sac City
R. G. Popham
Helena Sager
Carrie Woodward Brenton
Charles R. Brenton
Dallas Center
Glyde E. Breton
Brown Hotel
Des Moines
Auber
Sioux City
Éast
Charles Riggs
Leeds
Duglas C. Naylor
Simpson
The
Simpsonian
South America
Indianola
Naylor
New York City
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Bagley
Henry Field
Shenandoah
Corydon
W. Bentley
F. M. Woods
Associated Packing Company
Galdier
Marshall County
Marshalltown
Large Ice Needs for Milk Marketing in Summer
The article notes milk distribution has shifted from direct farm-to-neighborhood sales to larger networks. It stresses the need for clean milk kept cool, proper ice storage, and insulated transport to meet urban demands and health standards. It highlights ice use, cooling devices, and cooperative hauling as rising innovations.
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Johnnie
Big Cuty
Boards of Health
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Farmera
Poisonous Rayless Goldenrod Harms Livestock Across Southwest
Investigations by the U S Department of Agriculture link rayless goldenrod Isocoma wrightii to alkali disease in New Mexico Texas and Arizona. Cattle usually show drowsiness weakness and leg failure while fat animals are hit first. Horses die quickly and sheep show similar symptoms. Eradication by digging out plants is feasible where growth is limited. otherwise control relies on moving stock and providing good feed.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department
New Mexico
Texas
Arizona
Wrightli
Ariizona
G. D. Marsh
Bureau of Animal Industry
Planting catalpas to save soil and form fence posts
A concise suggestion to plant hardy catalpas in a gullied area prone to washout. The trees would stabilize the soil and rapidly mature into usable fence posts, offering erosion control and practical timber value.
Dialogue excerpt from Michigan Gargoyle piece
In a terse exchange The Professor asks a blunt question about the speaker's sexuality and whether The collector was informed. The Factotum confirms but notes disbelief, prompting The Professor to resolve to confront the matter himself.
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Michigan Gargoyle
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Advertisement Spells Relief
An old testimonial style ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Medicine a tonic to cleanse blood and bolster the system, restoring normal conditions so nature can heal. It claims all druggists carry the remedy and lists Cheney & Co as free circulators. A stray fiction line about a writer plotting a story appears.
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Hall
Nature
All
Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ghin
As She Saw It Sheta Plicher For The Home Team
A fragment from the Doston Transcript complains that Sheta Plicher struck out many times and the home team had little to cheer about as the man failed to hit the ball.
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Sheta Plicher
Doston Transcript
Joke on Amateur Farmer Confuses Boss and Hired Hand
A Washington official buys a summer farm and criticizes dry grain left to dry. He mistakes the dribblings for care, while the hired man reveals the crop actual term. The tale closes with a quip about weathered patience and misperceived effort.
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Washington
Beauty Marshaled for Czar in Sixteenth Century Russia
In the reign of Ivan the Terrible, czar selection for a wife began with appeals to all Russian beauties. About 1,600 contenders gathered in Moscow for a formal choosing, after provincial contests. Anastasia, from a poor family, was selected in a ceremony witnessed by many and became empress.
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Russia
Ivan
Moscow
Tyan
Anastasia
Nothing Like It in Town Humor Piece
A brief exchange sets up a humorous writer described as not funny, but actually crafting jokes for the funny papers. The dialogue plays on public perceptions of wit and authorship in light entertainment.
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Peggy
Kemp
MFG. CO. Aducated
State Street
New York
Ses
Hatinnti
Michigan
Gray
Mi Weiter
Hiscox Chemical Works
Yatcuogue
Mullane Stamping ‘Works
Dept. 6
Fifteenth St
Bolin II
Florida
Orange Grove
Homs
Geo. Davie
Lakeland
Fin
N. Y
Chicago
Hawkeye
State News
Iowa
Ames
Health Department
Gooling
Inget
Bayer
Egger
Gastonia
Fletcher
Cascara
Tomy
la Grippe
Hill
Spohn
Bpohn Medical Company
Ginghe
Franklin
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