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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1897
Page
6
A single emerald vase of immense value sits in Genoa Cathedral, preserved for six centuries. It is cut from one emerald and displayed suspended around a priest’s neck by a cord, with only the priest allowed to touch it.
Fragmentary ad laden page notes a Toledo business claim by I. J. Chunny & Co promising a hundred dollars for every canoe of catarrh cured by Hart's Catarrh Cure. Includes testimonials, mentions various patent medicines, and a parade of unrelated notices.
The Noa doll industry, long imported from Germany, Switzerland, Tyrol and Steyervaarl, is now declared illegal for the country. Doll heads use china materials, glazed before baking. Bodies for finer dolls are made of cotton or canvas, stuffed with sawdust or cotton, reflecting traditional craft methods.
An Advertiser column extols Dr Williams' Pink Pills as a remedy for rheumatism nervous prostration and stomach trouble. It cites Lyons Iowa cases including D B Snyder and John B Cook as believers and describes the pills as restoring blood and nerves. The piece notes the product costs 50 cents a box or 6 for 2.50 and lists Dr Williams' Medicine Co. Schenectady NY as the sender.
The Ladies' Home Journal notes Dutch birth customs: a red plush cushion outside the door signals a boy, while a white one signals a girl.
In a Washington Times clipping a waiter hands Uncle Zeke a bill of fare and is told to keep the paper until after dinner. The fragment repeats references to kidneys bowels and ten cents, with a brief exchange about payment and reading. The text is partial and lacks full context.
A detailed study guide on Acts 10 80 44 examines Peters early reluctance, the Gentile mission, and the vision of clean and unclean foods, stressing the decisive role of the Caesarea conversion and Peter’s preaching of the resurrection as proof of the gospel. It invites teachers to map the journey from Joppa to Caesarea and to compare Gentile openness with Jewish exclusivity.
A pamphlet urges regular menstrual function as vital to female health, warning irregularity poisons the blood and can lead to serious diseases. It touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a regulator and cites Miss Maurie Johnson's letter describing relief after using the remedy and liver pills.
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