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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
8
A man named Johnny is dirtied and bandaged after a street fight with a New York boy over the geography of Chicago. His mother scolds him as he admits the brawl, and the piece mixes ads for medicines, remedies, and odd anecdotes from daily life.
Read the advertisements. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get into the habit of reading the advertisements. They will afford an most interesting study and will put you in the way of getting more excellent bargains. Our offers are reliable, they send what they advertise.
An early 20th century style classified notice offers a ten week trial subscription for 10 cents to a Colorado based Illustrated Weekly Sentinel with six club deal and free gold rings as inducement. The page also includes ad snippets for cold remedy Laxative Bromo Quinine, a tobacco habit cure No-To-Bac, and a monetary figure for Munson’s bore device obituary in New Haven.
In historic sketches Mary Shears Roterty recounts Casan, a three-foot Tasman-like Tartarian dwarf of Genghis Khan’s era. Born in Asia near Karakorum, he leads a band of bold youths, masters horse and bow, and embodies the paradox of small stature and mighty will that helped shape a people’s freedom.
An interview clipping from the Vaffy Herald of Clinton Iowa presents a tale of recovery from drink and disease. John B. Cook of Lyon Iowa swears to a cure after taking Williams Pink Pills, claiming 48 pound weight gain and renewed health, with details of prior insomnia headaches and digestive troubles.
A fragment from a Derek journal shows a poet writing amid personal tension. His wife cleans dishes and pleads for quiet before she contemplates inner turmoil, ending with a silent, sorrowful moment as he (mis)conducts toward a coal bin.
An open letter alleges a misrepresented Castoria wrapper bearing the signature CHAS HO PLETCHER, claiming the original Castoria for mothers’ homes for over thirty years. It cites Samuel Pitcher and Centaur Company as authorities, amid broader commerical notices and product pitches.
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