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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1907
Page
6
Mr. Carson owner of the sawmill eyes timber in the county as lumber prices rise. George Wales cuts pines and stacks them on his lot by the road awaiting Corson. Corson passes, jokes about not tossing toothpicks about the front yard.
An extended ad style excerpt discusses the history of the knockout blow in boxing, later praising Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for digestion and catarrh. It claims the remedy cures mucous conditions and bladder and pelvic organs, with free booklets and medical advice mailed to Buffalo, New York. The text ends with a cut discussion on vocal training and a daughter’s voice improvement.
A Burlington New Jersey reader recalls a cousin who suffered skin disfigurement from birth until age six and failed with all treatments. Old De suggested Cutleura Remedies, and after about two months the child recovered fully, leaving skin as soft as a baby's with no scar. The letter from Mrs. W. P. Ingle notes the long-term success and current well-being.
A diary style fragment shows Praot questioning love and fidelity. Mudty answers with devotion asserting her husband confines her with little company and insists constant care. The scene highlights conflict and a tense marriage dynamic in a crowded domestic setting.
An anonymous Salem reader reports chronic kidney and rheumatic ailments for ten years starting with kidney pain, then spreading through the limbs. After failed medical treatment, using Don's Kidney Pills brought quick improvement. three boxes relieved pains, headaches, and sleepless nights after 15 years of suffering. Sold by all dealers for 60 cents a box. FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY
A new alloy called Montel, developed at the Canadian Copper Company plant in Sudbury Ont, blends copper, nickel, tin, and another mineral. It is touted as cheaper and rust resistant, with ductile strength equal to nickel, promising many industrial uses but not necessarily replacing nickel steel armor plate.
A detective praises Miindoos as the best pickpackets for theft. He notes they eat them at night and can use a watch or nurse with their feet as easily as with hands. The barefoot museum workers are skilled with toes, giving them an advantage. An Indon in a crowd can snatch a wallet from a pocket with his feet.
A vintage sales blurb touts Grape-Nuts as the scientifically made food, fully cooked at the factory and ready to serve with milk or cream. It markets predigested nutrition for weak stomachs, urges sugar with milk or water, and references The Road to Wellville as a health classic.
Col Posey and lawyer W. Bennett demonstrate an underground garden in an abandoned mine near Yankestown, using acetylene light to grow radishes onions tulips carnations and other vegetables and flowers in midwinter. He plans a larger scale mine garden to supply his table and neighbors next winter.
Plans submitted for a New York connecting railroad bridge over the East River form part of a steel viaduct over three miles long. The project links the New York New Haven and Hartford system in the Bronx with Long Island and the Pennsylvania line. It will be the longest and heaviest steel bridge in the world, using eighty thousand tons of steel and carrying four tracks embedded in stone ballast to stay quiet. Abutments rise 1,000 feet apart with stone towers, and towers reach 200 feet with rail operations rooms. The superstructure stands 140 feet above the water.
A roundup of union activities and wage developments from Red Wing, Kansas City, Boston, Gloucester, Newark, Washington, and Mexico. Reports note new unions formed, building projects, nine hour day wins, wage increases, immigration debates, and the establishment of conciliation boards and international federation branches with hundreds of thousands of members and rising enrollment.
An old fashioned advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to soothe tired feet, shoe into shoes, and cure corns and callouses. It claims foot rest, pain relief, and easy debt-free shoes with a free sample offer from Allen E. Olmsted of Le Roy New York.
A narrative recounts a grandfather teaching restraint after a moment of anger in which he nearly swore, noting a long tradition of self-control. The text then shifts to a Swiss banking snapshot from fifty years ago, comparing 180,000 depositors with $12,000,000 in 167 savings banks to present figures of 1,400,000 depositors with $100,000,000 in over 800 banks.
An old ad claims exercise is nature’s cure for constipation and touts Cascarets as the only harmless artificial exercise for bowel muscles. It advises a ten mile walk, or using an Easy Chair, but emphasizes Cascarets as the sole effective method without effort.
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