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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1900
Page
4
The pamphlet denounces refined white flour products bread biscuits buns rolls doughnuts cookies crackers cakes and pies as an unnatural impoverished diet. It warns that batter lard and sugar common in their preparation contribute to a one sided diet causing weak muscles digestion nerves and teeth and overall poor health.
For one week starting April 16 shoppers receive one loaf of Brain Bread free with the purchase of a 12th sack of Purina Health Flour or one page of Ralston Breakfast food. The offer targets regular customers at participating outlets.
J Zangwill recounts visiting Ventnor where public visitor lists show Mr and Mrs Zangwill, noting the humor in readers misreading a couple as his wife and himself. He cites a friend who wed an older fortune and a desiring admirer, plus a record of a shroud bought by a court milliner’s widow. Other quips span a boy’s wartime reading to jokes about galling fire and northern discoveries.
A man recently arrived in Chicago from Michigan paid a bus fare with a trade dollar cast as a genuine coin. He discovered the deception the next day and sought a refund or explanation. After earlier failure to pass the coin at a cigar stand, he traded it for $1.65 with a coin dealer, then left.
A suit for slander between Abraham A. De Haven and Moses Weller in Lancaster Pa reached trial when Weller agreed to publish a lie letter retracting his statements. The settlement includes rituals like posting the letter and reciting it at public gatherings. The practice, once common locally, persists in Transvaal newspapers with similar apologies.
The passage notes how guitar playing is central in Portugal across social groups from peasants to artisans, with evenings spent in music and song. It intersperses lighter jokes and jokes from various newspapers, including quips on weather etiquette and humor about carpenters and bookworms.
The article describes the clam with a mantle enclosing its body leaving two openings for the foot and siphon. It notes the creature’s foot hiding a tiny brain, a gland producing strong fibers to anchor itself by byssus, and its sedentary food intake as it waits for prey. It likens the alphon and dam to contentment found in nature.
A Yukon mail carrier reports sacrificing speed for safety amid ice jams on Forty-Mile River. He details crossing dangers, dog-drawn sleds, and the risk of mail losses, noting November 6's favorable window to advance while ice piles required chopping through.
The article promotes a product called Mother's Friend by the Bradfield Regulator Co offering immunity from pain and danger in childbirth. It touts the remedy as proven by thousands of mothers, urges expectant women to request the free little booklet Before Baby is Born, and notes Atlanta, Georgia as the company location.
A spring themed Outing arrives in April with a handsome new cover. Casper Whitney guides readers through new routes while celebrating travel adventure and national vigor. The issue features thoughts on Racquets and Tennis by Eustace Miles and essays by Holder and Pinchot, with art and writing by Seton-Thompson, Heming, Weston, Nugent, Sandys, and others.
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