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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
8
A garbled antique page blends odd medical ads with comic dialogues and riddled captions. It mentions restless ailments, a dyspepsia cure pill, and a playful domestic scene about a newly married man. The text mixes marketing lines with humorous exchanges and public notices.
The advertisement promotes Gutloura Soap and Cutiura Ointment as gentle emollients for babies skin and hair. It claims relief from minor irritations rashes and itching and notes the products are sold worldwide with free samples and a skin care booklet.
Readers from Warren and Esmond Ind report relief from female weakness, irregular periods, and headaches after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They describe improved health, energy, and mood, with testimonials from Mrs ARTI, E IN and Rhoda Laland among others.
A first person wartime reminiscence details the battle on the Mexican frontier. The narrator describes Mexican and Federal forces, a fleeing band of Americans, a wounded comrade begging not to be left, and the burden of carrying the boy to safety before dying in an improvised grave. The piece ends with prisoners’ fate, Mosby’s leadership, and a vow to join future conflicts if needed.
The Gaekwar of Baroda lent one of four panels from the celebrated pearl carpet of Baroda to London's Victoria and Albert Museum at South Kensington. The piece, created during Khande Rao Gaekwar's reign, features an arabesque of pearls and colored glass beads with diamonds rubies emeralds and sapphires, centered by a florid motif and a jeweled border of twenty four diamond rosettes. Enormous flood damage in the United States is estimated at about 100000000.
Hasong chief Lupungu, one of Congo’s wealthiest rulers, boasts 300 wives each paid two francs yearly to the state. Described by Vice-Consul Castells as a villainous figure with a single eye and scarred face, he gained power after being adopted by a sub-chief and allying with Arab traders to conquer his father and become Basongi chief.
A scrambled OCR fragment shows quips on earth area measurements and asthma remedies, plus mock dialogue about money and cigar purchases. It includes lines about paper money circling the world and an investor leaflet from Kelsey, Brewer & Company in Grand Rapids, with domestic satire between John and Mrs Newlywed about essential needs and compromise on funds.
A jumble of quotes and stray lines mentions cure hay fever, Sanguinetti candy refunds, Dr. Buta Drug Co. Chicago, motor car metaphors, rising exports of American horses valued near five million dollars, Norman Hapgood political address, and a dramatic engagement breakup with Grace Cheever.
A fragment shows two travelers discussing a stop labeled Chicago and noting one had stretched there before. The dialogue conveys travel between places with casual humor about location and memory.
Customer asks why a gentleman offered to buy goods on trade but was refused. Grocer replies because the man is an undertaker. Brooklyn Citizen.
A dispute over a serenade escalated when a man generated loud sounds at a residence to draw a woman to the door. Another man then arrived and escorted her out using an automobile horn, prompting local curiosity about the unusual occurrence.
Ad copy from Dr Etts Drug Co Chicago touts pile cure pills advertised at 50 cents with claim of candy like taste and career money refund offer. Sly line targets cheap people seeking cheaper options.
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