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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1904
Page
6
An old timey medical pitch touts CASCARETS as the strongest cure claiming more effective than all diseases combined. It urges readers to obtain genuine tablets, warns against imitations, and calls CASCARETS a daily pull up treatment.
An unintelligible OCR fragment references Atlas and a fraught old man with a world of trouble, contrasting with other brands. The readable portion hints at complaints about worth and vitality but provides no clear event, date, or entities beyond Atlas and generic “old man.”
A garbled advertising fragment touts a foot powder product with odd terms and scattered product mentions. It reads like a misread label from a drugstore display, naming several peculiar brand-like words and a supposed address line, though many words are incomprehensible.
A fragmented newspaper snippet mixes a birthday gift scene with columns urging interest from mothers. It references the Phoenix Chair Company of Sheboygan Wisconsin and ad-like notes about cigars, a Pico's Cure for Consumption, and assorted promotional lines amid garbled text from 1901.
The aged 45 Liszt tale recounts an early work titled Don Bunche with libretto by Jon, a 250 facet stage score compiled by De Tthnee, later lost in Rue Lepelletier fires. M. Jéeon Chatitayolie Nas rediscovered the score at the Bibliotheque de li Opera, spanning five volumes and 887 pages, with music perhaps not fully original and tracing a theme from a Flovian tile titled Portuguese.
Middlesex July 26 special reports Mrs Betsey A Clawson long crippled by inflammatory rheumatism and later gout says two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her in two weeks. She could work again, dig potatoes, tend garden, and attend to daily tasks after her husband died. The remedy blamed uric acid in the blood and kidneys clearing it.
A Siberian regiment tale from Port Arthur tells of Lintikoff a popular soldier who was actually a young woman of 18 in disguise. After serving as a servant to a young officer she fell ill with blood poisoning following a self inflicted arterial severance. She begged the officer to marry her but he refused. On hearing of her death he returned and killed himself in his quarters.
A man once near death from grip and stomach failure credits Grape-Nuts and cream with restoring strength and vitality. After a year, he says he can work fifteen hours daily, moved from Albany to San Francisco, and appears younger than his 55 years. He urges others to try the product and mentions The Road to Wellville booklet.
A historic boom town description notes a rapid population surge from 500 to about 5,000 inhabitants. Most residents are transient and plan to depart once driving is finished, marking the town as a novel but temporary frontier settlement with typical evolving town trends.
A speech discusses government land grants to white settlers on the Rosebud area in South Dakota. It notes large demand for land and claims thousands of acres were offered but only a fraction delivered, with years of contention over titles and allotments amid federal action and settler pressures.
After a long, disorderly Democratic state convention in Missouri, Joseph Wingate Folk of Brownsville and St. Louis was nominated for governor. Folk, born October 28, 1809, to Judge Henry Folk and a Virginian lineage, studied at Vanderbilt and Nashville University, practiced law in Brownsville, and practiced in St. Louis around 1902. He gained prominence during the Brent Street car strike of 1900 and served as Circuit Attorney, prosecuting bribery cases in the city.
Mrs Serenca Maybrick is released after fifteen years in English prison for the murder of her husband. A 1907 government parole would have required Baghdad reporting, but the promise to travel to America allows her to live freely in New York while awaiting passage.
Warpon sers describe St Elmo as a future industrial hub near a reserve for settlers. The town will feature an Eagle Pipe family influence, a planned telephone system, portable houses, wheels to move prairie homes, and an electric light plant powered by Willow Creek. Expected population near 2,090 within two weeks after opening, with rapid development plans already in place.
The weather bureau weekly crop report warns east of the Orkny Mountains had favorable temperatures while the Pacific coast and western highlands were cool with frosts. Rain hindered farm work in the central Gulf states and parts of the Ohio valley, with drought easing in the north Pacific coast but worsening in the southern plateau. Corn thrived in some regions yet lagged in the Missouri, upper Ohio, and middle Atlantic states due to cultivation. Harvesting progresses unevenly, with Missouri and Nebraska nearing completion and wheat faring satisfactorily overall. reports of oat damage persist in parts of Missouri. A political note mentions Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma clashing with newspaper critics over territorial coverage. A fatal shooting in Wyoming involving Homer Newman is reported, with his father N. J. Newman a resident of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma Territory.
A report notes slot machines at Coney Island and in New York City yield substantial profits to operators. An inventor runs many machines with investments near $28,000 and weekly take exceeding $600 after maintenance. The amusement trade claims thousands of coins daily and high rental costs buoy revenues.
From Ferald Near, wire reports a blaze destroying a block of manufacturing buildings in Fresno California with losses totaling 225000 dollars. A new International union for Carpet Workers is proposed to unite carpet layers, cutters, measuremen and sewers. New York City saw 2100 applications for jobs, but only sixteen positions will be filled. Salary is 1500 dollars yearly and each applicant must undergo a cosmic service examination.
J B Thoburn of the State Board of Agriculture predicts Oklahoma will outrank Rocky Ford as a melon producer within two years. F J Weymouth, a major grower, says Canteloupes and watermelons thrive in Lingoin County and profitably grown despite drought. Oklahoma melons should ship earlier and fetch 60 cents to $1 per crate more than St Louis market prices.
Very low round trip fares offered to Bobton with tickets on sale August 12 18 and 14 and return limit possibly extended to September 30. Tickets available via New York if desired. Full information from IL F Vosburgh G A F D 180 Wark Street Chicago or C F Daly Chief A G P A Chicago. The National Casket Co makes The Best.
In a domestic exchange, a husband accuses his wife of swearing in her sleep while recounting a dream about smoking a birthday cigar. The strange dialogue reflects tension and a fragmentary scene from everyday life.
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