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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1896
Page
8
A collage of era fragments features dialogue about work, romance, and parental opposition, plus a Detroit Tribune snippet on a marriage barrier. It includes an Insurance Home Life ad seeking agents, a quip about Kurdish violence, and a note on 661 tramps arriving at Winchester workhouse with 163 discharged soldiers among them.
An old advertorial touts Kickapoo Indian Oil and Sagwa as cures for rheumatism and related pains. It claims external oil relieves inflammation quickly while Sagwa boosts blood and kidney function. The copy emphasizes natural roots and herbs, asserts no poisons, and lists pricing for multiple bottle supplies.
Practical tips on winter storage for cabbage celery potatoes squash and carrots including wrapping in newspaper keeping in cool cellars and moist moss. Also notes on framing gutters fences and plowman style farm improvements with millet growing tips and farm machinery upgrades.
A Minnesota veteran James Sweet, late War of 1861 to 1865, credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring his nervous strength after heart disease and nervous strain from combat. He testifies in a sworn statement that the medicine rejuvenated him and he recommends it to fellow veterans. The notice includes a notary seal and sale details for the pills.
A garbled excerpt contains fragmented dialogue and stray ad-like lines. References include a girl narrator Bobbie and a later mention of a Harper's Bazaar type product, a household necessity, and various 19th century ad phrases. The passage ends with a street scene remark about railway construction and city work.
A collage of dubious health claims and quirky excerpts from medical ads and odd anecdotes. References to Stomach Elders and kidney troubles mix with sensational quotes and scattered social notes about public life and local institutions.
Induced patents listed for Northwestern inventors Hans Bakle and Ole Nonttey in St Saul with plows. Other entries include tools from Richard D Cody in Winona and Walter E Griphing in Sioux Falls, fireproof shutters from Alfred A Inne in Minneapolis, oil stove by Eugene Lemay Mendota and a potato digger by Philip R Martin Buffalo North Dakota. Over 2 700 children are cared for by twenty eight orphanages and institutions for children in Philadelphia.
A collage of 19th century ad snippets and comic quips. Includes a patent medicine pitch for No-To-bac to gain vigor, a bookdealer ad in Sterling Romeily Co, Chicago, and assorted jokes about opaque X rays and telephone operators.
The copy claims Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive remedy for persistent catarrh. It asserts the medicine cures constitutional disease by acting on blood and mucous membranes, promising $100 for any case it fails to cure and listing Toledo Ohio makers and widespread druggist availability.
The fragmentary note recalls a trusted figure, Mrs Casey, and mentions debts and misgivings. It hints at tension with North Star conduting conts and references Lampher, iineh' & Skinners in St Paul Minnesota as a manufacturer.
A physician boasts of removing a bullet from a man's eye without damage. The Cheerful Idiot dismisses it, claiming similar gun tricks have been performed by him. Reported in the Indianapolis Journal excerpt.
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