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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1901
Page
10
A collage of patent medicines and patent remedies such as Wizard Oil Piso’s Cure for Consumption Grain-O and Defiance Starch appears, plus travel rates to California via Southern Pacific, a catarrh cure by Hall and a Morgan land prospectus. Voices urge circulation, shows, and household goods while offering maps and agents.
Buffalo New York to Chicago Missouri to Detroit and Ohio points on sale May July dates with half rates to southern points on the first and third Tuesdays each month Summer tourist rates for Pan-American Exposition and summer resorts available. Contact St Louis City Office 1415 Farnam Street or Harry J Moores C P T A Omaha or A J Gandy G P A Kansas City for details.
The article profiles W. Mills known as the Peanut King. Beginning as a peanut vendor on trains at age 12, he secured contracts with railroads for exclusive sale rights. He now employs over 600 people and runs a company making eye machines that supply salted peanuts. The piece also notes generic period ads and references Richard Croker’s sons as dog fanciers with future racing interest hinted.
A Duluth reader describes vast wheat fields in Western Canada where shocks are so dense driving is nearly impossible. He notes yields of twenty five to thirty bushels per acre and explains milder winters due to the Japan current and chinook winds. The letter promotes government land offers and ongoing Saskatchewan valley settlement to readers.
In northwestern Colorado a hidden herd of over 2,000 unbranded beef cattle roams, awaiting capture by a bold party with a wagon, food, cow ponies, and grit. Cowboys in Routt and Rio Blanco recall hints of the elusive herd, pursued by eastern speculators and a wary game warden whose fall ended his chase. Local legends tie the cattle to Mormon migrations and early Colorado days on displaced frontier trails.
A massive herd of 50,000 cattle escaped and roamed from Collings to North Park through Egeria and Twenty Mile Parks into Routt county. A midnight mountain storm triggered a fatal stampede with about 1,000 cattle killed, leaving bones at a cliff. Surviving cattle dispersed into the Snake and Bear river valleys. The piece mentions a separate claim that some cattle bore Uncle Sam branding from independent aftercare, implying later origins.
A Confederate veteran recalls a grisly postbattle moment near the second Manassas clash. While scavenging for gear he spots a fallen New York Zouave wearing scarlet trousers and a purple fez. He reaches for a tassel swap, and a living voice from beneath a handkerchief pleads not to disturb him.
A dying Confederate boy asks for water and entrusts his purple fez to a fellow soldier. The narrator notes the boy's courage as surgeons are scarce and departs, later learning the lad died where he was left as the company moved on.
A writer reflects on snow avalanches altering mountainsides along the Rockies and the awe they inspire. The piece then notes a thirty inch Icelandic pony exhibited in Paris, contrasting its size and temperament with Korean horses described as small, quarrelsome, and tough beasts despite their usefulness as load carriers.
A simple and inexpensive artificial stone process grows in Germany. Lime and sand in a four to six ratio to ninety six and ninety four parts form blocks. Blocks are sealed and steamed at 129 to 160 psi to render a hard flinty material.
New York health department mobilizes seventy officers in citizen attire to enforce anti projecting offense in cars and ferries. Officers arrest violators, guiding them to magistrates court where fines are issued and warnings given to deter repeat offenses.
Mrs J B Flanigan of Sumpter Illinois suffered fifteen years with dropsy unable to wear shoes for three years. After trying doctors, her husband bought six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills from Carmi druggist J J Dale. Five taken cured her entirely restoring health and prompting praise for the remedy and the druggist.
The 98th birthday of painter Thomas Sidney Cooper, deemed the dean of Welsh painters, will be marked in September. The English Royal Academy plans a large London dinner to observe the occasion, with preparations underway.
An unsigned ad claims a tonic cures nervousness on the first day of treatment and offers a trial bottle for two dollars. It urges readers to consider a Philadelphia address for more information and hints at routine nightly instructions for bedtime preparation.
Clem G. Moore of Crawfordsville Georgia attributes four years of systemic catarrh to relief after using Peruna. Other testimonials from Paragould Arkansas and Washington D C praise Peruna as a cure. Readers are urged to write Dr Hartman for free advice at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus U S A.
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