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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1899
Page
3
Gray hair is described as starved hair and hair bulbs deprived of proper food and nerve force. The product claims to increase scalp circulation and nerve power, restoring color in days and youthfulness, with an offer to send a hair book and doctor’s advice if benefits fall short.
A barber promotes a tonic with tall claims and shares sensational stories about customers. The piece hints at caution over medical or cosmetic promises while noting local reactions and interest in the shop.
An old-time ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to relieve swollen smarting burning sweating feet corns and bunions. Shake into shoes then buy at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Free sample offered with address Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York.
An exchange quoted in the Washington Star features an amateur scientist asking about the sea serpent in winter. The skeptic suggests a practical plan for the landlord to obtain a hose reel and keep the creature in a dry cellar.
The article traces Nathaniel Hawthorne's life from his birth in 1804 at 21 Union Street Salem through childhood rooms, the old Manse in Concord, and his later houses in Lenox West Newton and The Wayside. It notes his works The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, his civil service in the Boston area, and his death in 1864 in Plymouth area. It also mentions other Salem figures and landmarks connected to Hawthorne.
London correspondent reports Madrid's nerves were taut with a single topic affecting all districts from theaters to cafes. The chatter eclipsed international events like Cuba and the Philippines as residents debated a question gripping the city.
The Marconi wireless telegraphy method may be tried on a French warship. Storms do not hinder air transmissions, making ship to ship signaling possible at sea. A copper wire 20 feet high reaches about a mile, 40 feet about four miles, 80 feet about sixteen miles. An Eiffel Tower test aims 230 miles to England, though the tower is 84 feet high while the English coast wire stands 150 feet high.
President Henry Morton of the Stevens Institute refutes the claim that liquid air can replace coal at near zero cost. He explains that producing one gallon of liquid air requires twelve times the energy the liquid would yield in a perfect engine, debunking the experimenters assertion.
A father tells his son that orangutans tolerate the climate only after they are stuffed. The exchange frames a grim joke about preparation and endurance.
General Boulanger once sought a throne astride his black charger but the animal now pulls a Paris cab. The text notes that tobacco smokers have been less affected by influenza in recent epidemics than nonhabitual smokers.
A New Milford farmer captured a two headed two tailed snake joined along most of its length with a shared body. Nearby a Callicoon farmer found a barrel and a bear emerged from it, explaining the barrel’s mysterious origin. Susquehanna County reports note Tom Harris’s dramatic skin and hair change attributed to historic Underground Railroad era experiences.
A Cincinnati Enquirer piece portrays the Malay as impassive, reserved, and slow in speech, with little humor and a strong sense of etiquette among the higher classes. It contrasts calm, dignified manners with a harsher side marked by recklessness and cruelty toward human life, noting a split between gentile manners and a brutal undercurrent.
A candidate's remark provokes a sharp response from the hall as voices clash over a question. The exchange highlights tensions at the meeting and hints at public scrutiny of the candidate's impressions.
The world’s first electric railway ran in Ireland from Bushmills to Grant’s Causeway. The claim notes a significant early electrification milestone. It mentions approximately 800,000 houses in Tralanda as a secondary detail.
Mrs Mathilde Richter of Doniphan Nebraska credits Pe ru na with restoring health after long pelvic catarrh and urges others to try the remedy. Mrs Col Hamilton of Columbus Ohio also recommends Pe ru na for women. Free health book offered by Dr Hartman of Columbus Ohio.
The ad claims cholera morbus and related summer bowel ailments are catarrh of the bowels. It touts Peruna as a universal remedy, noting Dr. Hartman’s forty years practice and survival of all cases. Free copy of Summers Catarrh offered by address in Columbus, Ohio.
Mrs Bargane jokes about buying a bargain toothache cure and urges Mr Bargane to try it. The exchange appears in the Baltimore Jewish American.
List of patents issued to Northwestern inventors from Minneapolis and Duluth Minnesota include Day Henry L for a separator. Goetze Max for a lamp extinguisher. Hopkins Albert N for a grain car door. Lebeher Chester B for a continuous contact trolley. Sehichtl Joseph for folding stock or poultry rack. Vetlesen Peter J for a wash stand. Design by Merwin Lothrop Johnson of St Paul.
A Parisienne called it wonderful to see the young American woman leading the crowd. The Washington Star notes the moment as surprising and remarks on the fascination with her command and the foreign reaction to her presence.
Do Your Feet Ache and Burnt Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight and new shoes feel easy Cures corns bunions swollen hot and sweating feet At all druggists and shoe stores 25c Sample sent free Address Allen 8 Olmsted Leloy NY
A concise aphorism attributed to Cervantes notes the high value of civility, warning that its absence incurs greater social cost than its maintenance. The quote emphasizes restraint, respect, and courteous conduct as fundamental social currency.
The fragment records a Mrs Lucy Allace of Uette Kansas in December 1905 mentioning Piso's Cure for consumption and jokes about poverty and holes in pockets. The text is garbled but presents a consumer remedy claim and financial hardship image.
A simple promotion for Cascarets candy cathartic claims bowels can be trained like muscles and the brain. Advertises pricing 10c 2c 6c and notes some men are thrown out of employment and others are kicked out.
An advertising fragment notes Hall’s Catarrh Cure for internal use with price 750 and a soothing syrup claim for teething pain priced at 250 per bottle. It also remarks that band robber selections are mostly snatches.
Miss N J Lockheart of Exish Beth Pa writes of relief from dropsy kidney trouble and female weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says pains bloating and tumors faded after five bottles and two boxes of Liver Pills, and hopes others find relief.
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