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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
8
A letter from Mannie Lamont of Chicago praises Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for curing months of painful menstrual trouble after three doctors failed. The missive, offered as a testimonial, urges others to try the product, with an address for Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
The fragmentary item presents a playful hare scene with a fox noting luck due to rabbit’s feet, sourced to Philadelphia Preag, and a stray ad-like line about physicians advising Wizard O for obstinate rheumatism and pourigia. It also includes a chatter about marriage proposals and a Life magazine quip.
Fragmented ad style clipping touts Hall's Catarrh Cure and internal tonics for blood and mucus surfaces. It mixes product claims with miscellaneous lines about Family Hand, soothing syrups, dyes, laxatives, politics, and social vignettes, reflecting a chaotic newspaper page containing multiple endorsements and quotes.
A long account traces Jenny Lind back to Stockholm origins with uncertain parentage. It notes her guardianship by Lindborg and adoption by Lind, plus a wealthy brewer Schmidt as reputed father. Details place her birth location, early schooling, and Paris letters revealing poverty and ambition, alongside remarks on Swedish emigration and a costly stereopticon license regime.
Oscar J. Lee, an electrical engineer from Norway, has perfected an electric device to locate metal veins underground. He holds two patents on the method and three on the instrument and reports locating eleven copper veins on Michigan’s Calumet and Hecla properties, plus gold mines in Idaho and Oregon. One vein was found at 600 feet depth. The invention is described in the Western Electrician and praised for potential impact.
Christian IX announces plans to visit his son King George of Greece this winter. The aged monarch at eighty three remains vigorous and eager for the journey. The new ministry in Denmark pushes reforms and seeks 5,000,000 kroner for artillery from the Riksdag. If not granted, war minister Madeen threatens to resign. Socialists oppose the funding so far.
Bars Gudbrandson Klypen of Hadeland, born at Klypen in 1798, remains healthy and content as he nears 160 years. He recalls the war of 181__ and notes his past habits of drinking and smoking long abandoned. His brothers fought in the referenced conflict.
Sweden, hard pressed by high foreign coal prices and weak domestic fuel, eyes water tower driven electric railway operations and peat briquetting. Reports indicate peat processing may need furnace modifications, with Germany already testing briquette production under Swedish government auspices this fall and winter.
The article reports on Norway's clergy opposing compulsory confirmation and advocating church disestablishment as political ties persist. It notes the state church structure, youth vows, and calls for voluntary rites, alongside a gallery of contemporary European notices and cultural items. It mentions Dr. Brandes receiving a kroner stipend, royal Christmas plans, a German squadron near Christiania, and Ibsen editions, Garborg’s new work, plus a Swedish scientist's milk powder process.
A mosaic of comic and dramatic bits from late a.m. newspapers includes a Kentucky parson remark on sin and truth in prohibition zones, a Philadelphia Record snare contemplation, a Norwalk letter about a cure claim, and a Baltimore American joke about a miner’s bill.
In London Adelphia Arches and in Paris Baguiolets underground caverns host a vast shelter called The Eubterranean Palace of the Poor. Under a hill miners’ fires create plaster-worthy reserves while homeless men women and children gather. Police enforcement limits activity as winter dawns reset the scene to cold streets.
Northport Michigan December 9 Physicians discuss a remarkable kidney disease cure. Byron Leslie Northport used Dodd's Kidney Pills after years of pain and despair. After nine months of sustained health he claims permanent cure, shocking local doctors and residents.
Mrs Stocks complains about moving into a sheep house to preserve caste while Mr Stocke argues debt and comfort justify the choice. The exchange highlights gendered expectations and economic pragmatism in a domestic dispute.
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