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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1907
Page
6
New England hotel and restaurant owners face a shortage of young women as the summer season ends. With factories and mills thriving, employers seek labor but cannot hire enough maids and operators. Some establishments consider employing Chinese workers to fill the gap, a practice spreading from the West to meet demand.
The piece argues Peruna is both a tonic and a catarrh remedy, asserting it must strengthen circulation and nerves to relieve catarrh. It highlights Hydrastia canadensis and allied tonics as key ingredients, cites testimonials, and offers anecdotes and commentary from period sources. It also includes diverse quotations and a misc. note about rural life and Paris phone charges.
Ley P. Brockway of Anoka Minnesota reports five months in hospital with heart trouble and failing kidney function. After starting Doni's Kidney Pills, she claims dramatic improvement and full recovery. Pills sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. 50 cents a box.
The readable lines hint at garbled dialogue about a car and a shopkeeper, followed by a nonsensical recipe for "milk pall" using Bortx and water, and a note about a wasp jaw’s strength. The passage mixes dialog, a misread remedy, and insect anatomy with unclear context.
A long OCR list recounts diverse historical dates and figures from 100d to 1900, noting battles, appointments, discoveries, and political acts. It mentions Hastings battle, Columbus discovery, Louis XII marriage, Zwingli slain, Lepanto, Dormans, and many others with scattered places like Canada, Quebec, Barbados, and New York. The text reads as a garbled catalog of events and personages across centuries, with numerous misspellings and OCR errors.
A reading on the value of careful meat selection and good cooking as essential for mental alertness. The author argues that diet affects high performance, cautioning against overemphasis on meals while urging thoughtful choice and preparation. The piece cites London Spectator’s phrase about “wasting of the maireles.”
Java's Fire inland shows a dramatic scene with two miles inland columns of soft hot mud continually raging and falling like thrusting black thunders. Nearby two gigantic bubbling formations rise and burst like balloons about three times a minute, a dramatic volcanic display witnessed near Menag colon.
Eight year sufferer Ertz Hirachlas of 24 Columbus Ave New York reports relief after a week using Cuticura Remedies costing a dollar and a half. He had spent about three hundred dollars on doctors and other remedies with no success before his skin condition healed and he could return to work. Marvel 20 and April 4 1906.
An old lady famed for spelling pies with an L excels in the kitchen of a small hotel near the Green Mountains. After a hearty dinner, the cook and hostess Whitress offers pie in three kinds: open-faced, cross-butted, and all-apple, sparking playful guest banter.
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