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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1900
Page
8
A collage of old advertisements and snippets notes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a trusted remedy for backaches and female ailments with letters of gratitude. Other items warn of deafness cures, praise Allen’s Foot-Ease, and share quirky humor about stage actors and travel letters.
The Senate debated the $2,000,000 Porto Rico appropriation andQuay case. The House advanced the District of Columbia bill and a Kansas Fort Hays grant. Other actions included the Porto Rican tariff dispute, a Spain war claims commission, and public notices of various congressional items.
A Detroit Public Schools music supervisor directs a six pupil class where deaf children learn rhythm by feeling vibrations from a piano. Students progress to approximate tuning by repeating words with lullaby playback, then sing into the ear and reproduce notes, suggesting singing with accuracy can be taught to many deaf children.
In a Maine village the dynamo failed, plunging the church vestry into darkness during a prayer meeting. Two young men entered, commented on a woman and liquor, then left as the lights returned and the congregation sang to drown out the talk. Lewiston Journal reports.
Charles Reade once fled pursuers at Oxford without cap and gown. He slipped a ladder under his chamber window for entry and dragged it up after him, later burning the ladder as a ruse. The tale is set amid a night chase by the proctors and students. A later note cites Crete’s olive losses from political unrest, with extensive famine implications for Muslims and Christians.
A jumble of notices and ad copy cites Jules Verne as a prolific author and compares English writer Miss Braddon, then pivots to assorted product endorsements. The piece includes midwestern seeds and medical ads, with a mix of quotations and promotional blurbs.
Mrs Nettie Chase of 47 K Bi MN writes of medical misdiagnoses for her 16 month old son who suffered a running sore. After three doctors labeled it scrofula and prescribed blood medicines, Hood s Sarsaparilla healed the boy and restored health. Free agents sought for samples of Dyemine Dyes from Bowyer Boyle in Dover Maine.
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