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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1910
Page
8
Fred Mungrave attends Mrs. Moora Ithle dinner where Captain Claughton’s absence hints at family influence and fortunes. Mrs. Fenton skilfully captivates men, while Susie Moore remains cool and distant. Tense conversations hint at money, marriage plans, and rivalries, ending with ongoing intrigue.
In Washington at a dinner Senator H C Hansbrough discusses aging pensions and saving. He recalls Hank Shuster of Devila Lake who fed a spaniel daily, the dog saving coins for meals, then buying a sandwich after amassing five cents, illustrating thrift and delayed reward.
A damaged account describes visitors to a jail who, under the escort of the chief warden, were shown a room with three women sewing. One guest asks about the occupants and is told they have no home and are his wife and two daughters, a claim later questioned in the narrative.
A fragment quotes Charles Lamb discussing roast pig in a literary aside while a Chicago Tribune quips about flattery. The passage implies readers are informed about food supply issues and public health, with a sly reference to muckrakers and satire in reporting.
Patient recounts a 25 year battle with a covering skin humor that worsened head neck and shoulders. After costly treatments failed at doctors and hospital a Cure remedy provided a rapid cure. Quote from P Keyes 147 Concord Street Boston Mass October 12 1909.
A Philadelphia resident states that after ten days using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent his pimples disappeared and his face cleared He had failed with doctors for months before this successful recovery signed Wm J Sadhler 1614 Susquehanna Ave Philadelphia May 1 1909.
A nurse announces the birth of a first son to Mrs O Brien. She tells Jimmy the aunt should come. Half an hour later the nurse calls again, saying another boy is born. Jimmy rushes to tell Auntie the stork has brought another brother and wonders how many more will come.
An ad copy promotes Allen's Foot Tabs as antiseptic tablets for foot baths to relieve soreness odor and tenderness and freshen feet with a powder for shoes priced 25c samples offered by mail. The text also includes miscellaneous promotional lines for Murine eye remedy and Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup and a brief anecdote about a raw Irishman on a revenue cutter.
An Augusta Maine nurse writes that Resinol cured a six month leg ulcer after two daily applications for four weeks and that it also cleared children's facial eruptions with satisfactory results. The note includes a Greek quotation and a Strabo anecdote about a deaf man staying to hear a harper.
A seaside family stays in a house with a telephone. Little Helen overhears her mother speaking from the city and bursts into tears, fearing they cannot get mamma out of the little hole.
An old advertisement touts Dr Martecl s female pills as a seventeen year standard remedy for women ailments. It claims quick, permanent results and promotes drug stores as the sale point. The text includes fragmented lines about a finest fabric and a note on animal and snake multiplication.
A Chicago woman reports relief from severe inflammation, a small tumor, and multiple surgeries after using Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The ad urges readers to strengthen the feminine system to avoid operations and lists conditions it claims to help, including displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities, backache, and nervous prostration.
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