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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1905
Page
6
A prominent, wealthy man credits his wife as his inspiration and greatest aid in life and business, saying all his success stems from her support since they first knew each other. The article highlights her influence as his essential partner.
A wife writes of relief from inflammation weakness and headaches after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming renewed health and vitality for herself and others. The ad urges readers to seek Mrs Pinkham's free advice in Lynn Massachusetts. The piece is followed by a relic vase note stating a Roman artifact possibly containing emperial ashes and its later mishandling and reconstruction.
A farmer named John Foernays recounts severe back pain and kidney trouble caused by a fall. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with relief, noting the pain and urinary issues disappeared and his condition improved. Sold by all dealers for 0 cents a box, Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N Y.
In a Philadelphia Press excerpt, Mr. Galley muses on kissing as potentially injurious while an athletic girl notes that some men have found the mere attempt at kissing harmful. The exchange reflects early 20th century attitudes toward sports and courtship.
The President issues a proclamation designating Thursday November 30 as Thanksgiving Day. He notes early settlers faced hardship and risk, calls for gratitude for abundances, and urges national reflection on past shortcomings while pledging continued service to the republic.
President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims a day of thanksgiving on November 30 1905 urging national prayer and self restraint. He calls Americans to gather in homes and places of worship to thank the Most High for past blessings and dedicate to cleanliness, honor and wisdom. The document is signed in Washington with Secretary of State HLIAU ROOT.
Omar Tey The Grand Army gains a rate for the Western Passenger Association convention in St Paul with a 160 mile exclusion. Erie Railway funds $18 million to improve its roadbed, already underway. total new equipment spending hits $15 million this year. New York Central proclaims “Millions for improvement” with track relaying to 100 and 90 pound rails and 85 pound side tracks by 1900. Western Passenger Association mulls baggage rule changes that could insure value as liability rises. New York Central orders 25,000 freight cars worth about $25 million, the largest equipment order in rail history. Town lots near Wind River open to growth as Shoshone buyers flood in ahead of June reservation openings.
A stray traveler confronts the leading man of the Ham let troupe stranded near a water tank twenty miles from a farmhouse. He asks if the man is really Inmet. the leader replies yes and 希 expresses a wish to be a ghost, noting ghosts don’t get hungry.
Reported by T. Wagar of Watertown New York as proof of the remedy. Wagar suffered two years from chronic joint pain and shoulder agony and after four boxes of Pink Pills was fully cured. His wife and others in Watertown praise the medicine for various ailments and note its lack of opiates. The article also mentions a weather-wise crab shell barometer in southern Chile indicating moisture and rain.
Advert reads a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable case of catarrh by Jiall's Caturrh Cure. J Cheney & Co of Toledo endorse F J Cheney as honorable. Walding Kinnan Malvin of Wholesale Druggists sign as dealers. Cure taken internally, supports blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered free, price per bottle. Also promotes Jaqil's Family Pills for constipation amid unclear chatter about a parlor kiss scene and a question about hour.
Calculations show 4 000 persons in London face a lying in via muddley income, with 44 500 000 yearly. 1 926 arrested for street risk, over 1 500 sentenced to short terms. Many targets of charity scams held money and bank books. Also an advertisement seeks attractive young Lady Agents offering outfits and earnings from 1 to 4 dollars daily in Buffalo, N Y.
A Washington Star quip calls frenzied finance where small investors lose bonds while insiders stay calm. An ad for Single Binder straight Ge cigars sells value to dealers and better cigars to smokers. Mrs Borden endorses Pixo's Cure for Consumption, dated May 26, 1901. Women and men are noted for quirky habits in brief quips.
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