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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1906
Page
6
Mrs Inghmus boards for the summer trip joking about trunks and money for the best bathing suit. Mrs Gaswell teases about packing trunks and beachwear, hinting at a seaside outing.
A promotional note extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the best medicine for women during the change of life. It features a testimonial from Mrs. Mary L. Kodine of Chicago and invites readers to write Mrs. Pinkham for free advice, claiming relief from dizziness, back pain, and headaches.
President Roosevelt announced the adoption of simplified spelling for all official White House documents and his correspondence, following a 800-word list compiled by a Columbia University committee led by Brander Matthews. Secretaries will implement the reform, with deputy lists added over time, while some departments may lag behind.
News notes John Mitchell a Negro was hanged at Dyersburg Tennessee for the murder of Mose Wedel. London courts ban artists as witnesses in divorce cases. A general strike of building trades declared in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to aid striking carpenters. Meas Childers a farmer in Nowara J T shot and killed his wife and fatally wounded his daughter in a senseless incident.
A Maine woman testifies she gained from 120 to 164 pounds after using Dr Williams Pink Pills, claiming relief from pale colorless tongue and gums, headaches, nausea, and heart distress. The ad touts the pills for rheumatism indigestion and nervous headaches, priced 60 cents a box, six boxes 32.50. A short anecdote about a beekeeper’s misfortune follows.
An advertisement invites readers to request a free sample of Allen’s Laot- Wane powder to relieve foot and shoe discomfort with claims of curing corns and bunions. The text also recounts a Providence tailor tale about John C. J. and a thrifty Rockefeller anecdote, noting extreme punctuality and frugality in shopping.
In a Philadelphia Tablet Ledger tale a ship company president crossing a dangerous channel chats with an elderly pilot. When asked who knows the waters best, the pilot replies bluntly that the captain should drive, since he knows where the bad places aren’t.
A Michigan woman recounts years of stomach pain headaches and dyspepsia tied to coffee. After quitting coffee and using Postum Cereal beverage she reports rapid relief and strong endorsement for others with similar symptoms.
An English engineer Bennett Hy Brough discusses modern mining and nuclear methods. He cites copper ore at 6,000 feet in the Lake Superior district and old ore at New ChumaA way in the Victoria area, coal at Pendleton mine, Manchester at 4,500 feet, diamond yield at Kim botly rock, copper ore at Atlantic mine Lake Superior, and a Bendigo gold line yielding 2 pennyweights per ton, all profitable under deep extraction.
In a scene from Hehetiratic the Play an unexpected visitor informs a woman her husband is unfaithful, prompting her swoon. The actress quips about two husbands as the author explains the leading man will introduce a twist. Yonkera Statesman play notes.
A testimonial from Tiz ule H. Siedge of Selma Alabama, dated October 28 1905, explains severe eczema with black skin patches cleared after using Cuticura Resolvent Soap and Ointment along with the Cuticura remedies over six months, noting other health improvements and urging consumers on purity.
Readable bits show scattered lines about conversations and a stray reference to “2,500 persons” and Russia. There is no clear event, date, or identifiable group beyond generic wartime context.
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