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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1901
Page
8
An old Pioneer Press notice announces a subscription offer for the Daily and Sunday papers with a prize chance. Subscribers paying three months in advance qualify for a free guess, while yearly prepaid to the Weekly Printer Press yields additional prizes. Deadline stated as June 1, 1901.
Little Isaac aged six was paid by his mother a penny per dozen pins picked from the carpet to keep the baby from stepping on them. He muses on earning ten cents and plans to buy a paper of pins to scatter and pick them up, as reported in Jewish World.
More doctors are said to be busy in Australia than elsewhere. A woman teacher in Ohio cites a professor in her eyenatead of a pupil. Three months' Pioneer Press subscription could win fortune. A pound of phosphorus yields a million matches. Baseball and golf players display White's Yucatan during play. a prize of five thousand dollars offered.
A fragmented 19th or early 20th century clipping discusses gender and physical limits in sport and daily life. It mocks the idea that girls cannot throw, noting differences in arm motion, collar bone length, and perceived strength, while a dialogue parodies medical advice and gendered assumptions.
William Marks, long near death from an incurable kidney disease, supposedly improves after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. Local doctors and out-of-town physicians reportedly agree a miracle occurred, with several cases including Bright's Disease and diabetes said to yield to the remedy in this Rock Island area.
Mr Meekton considers seeking Henrietta for answers but hesitates to reveal a doubt about happiness and marriage. The dialogue contrasts internal uncertainty with social expectations while a trivia contest tease about Canada’s population appears. The Washington Star note hints at a $1.20 prize for guessing.
An order for Dodd's Kidney Pills filled by Dodds Medicine Co of Buffalo directs a circuitous delivery path from New York to London to Greenland, landing at Jonesy island near the Arctic Circle. The piece touts American medicine and manufactured goods as worldwide in demand, citing a Chicago Tribune anecdote about pressroom operations.
The Stone family near Tulare California guards extensive flocks against coyotes with nightly firecrackers. The method, tested repeatedly, draws coyotes away for days and cuts guard labor. Also in Texas cattle outlooks and a veterinary tuberculosis case in a 16 year old gelding are reported from Hart Worth and Bomford.
Health department probes Chicago meat dealers over horse meat sold as beef with mislabeling and suspected fraud. One large firm traced horse meat to its barrels but substitution with beef halted evidence. Smaller shops also suspected as inspectors seek regulation and licensing for horse meat processing. Also reports on California crop prospects and sheep market conditions.
A tank holding 10,000 gallons of water was hurled into a spreading blaze in Cape May Courthouse village New Jersey, stopping a fire that had grown serious due to inadequate firefighting facilities.
A lantern fly of the Malay peninsula jumps five or six feet without opening its wings. It moves by drawing its nose under the body and striking it against the resting surface. An object like a stone from a boy's slingshot throws the insect forward.
Miss Marie Costs, president of the Appleton Young Ladies Club, praises Peruna as a spring and summer medicine. Mrs. Al. Wetzel and another woman share similar testimonials, claiming Peruna restores mucous membranes, aids digestion, nerves, and circulation. They urge readers to write Dr. Hartman at The Hartman Sanitorium in Columbus for free advice.
Miss Anna Bryant and Anona Bryan in Washington and Brooklyn praise Peruna and Manalin as tonics and cures for catarrh and nervous stomach issues. Letters describe improved health, appetite, and weight gain after using the remedies, with personal endorsements to friends and acquaintances.
A 3100,000 school building for colored children is to be erected in Bristol Tennessee. The project aims to provide educational facilities and improve access to schooling for African American students in the area.
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