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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1919
Page
8
An advertisement mocks harsh laxatives and touts Cascarets and Obscarets as quick reliefs for constipation and biliousness. It promotes Cuticura Talcum as a perfume and skin product, citing familiar testimonials and a joke about a knocker on the door.
Advertisement targets women with kidney and bladder issues, claiming symptoms like back pain, headaches, and nervousness signal kidney trouble. Promotes Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root as a remedy with a sample offer and instructions to mention the newspaper.
The British milling industry has launched a program to educate workers with technical training to raise efficiency across mills. The effort aims to boost productivity and modernize processes in the sector.
The Des Moines area campaigns for Salvation Army funds. a Des Moines conference draws over 1000 union laborers at the auditorium. Kate Moeller’s suicide at Davenport is reported alongside a Woodward break in at a house. Des Moines Chamber seeks a secretary for welfare work. Transcontinental endurance pilots plan to meet in Des Moines. River levels spike but no flood danger. National swine show crowns champions as Iowa ranks high in American Legion posts. Farmer labor talks push for representation at a Washington Round Table conference. Belgian horses shine in Waterloo while Buena Vista hogs dominate at the Bronx City fair.
Eighteen year old Adolph Gerds alias Daniel Tolman, held at a Wisconsin state reformatory, confessed to posing as a missing heir to a Philadelphia fortune. He described how a Milwaukee encounter led him to join the Navy, falsely claim the Tolman inheritance, cash bogus checks, and travel through several cities before his capture.
In Kimberly, near Nelsonville, Ohio, Mrs. Tony Stavisar and seven children aged six weeks to ten years were found burned or suffocated in their home. Authorities planned to move them to the Athens county home, and the mother reportedly killed herself after planning to part from the children. The room showed petroleum sprinkling and the children were tied to their beds.
An advertisement claims Bayer is the genuine aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. It touts Bayer tablets for headache, colds, pain, neuralgia, lumbago, and rheumatism, priced as Handy tin packs of 12 tablets.
A reflective meditation on deceit and honesty, praising happiness as life’s greatest dividend. It urges cheerful, effective work and readiness for higher purpose, warning that laziness invites trouble even from idle feet.
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