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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1898
Page
8
A health notice echoes Miss Gruney Sims of Ulster Pa praising Lydia E Pinkham products for menstrual pain leucorrhea and nervous symptoms. It claims Mrs Pinkham treats up to a hundred thousand women yearly and invites letters for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
A passage notes that colored gems may lose luster from exposure to light. Emeralds sapphires and rubies resist fading but Berlin and Paris experiments show color change after light exposure. A shop window example shows a stone much lighter than its darkened mates after illumination.
A chemist challenges the proverb of pure snow. Melted sample showed twenty four grains per gallon total solids, chlorine, free ammonia at .016 part per million, albuminous ammonia at .054 part per million, and iron causing black coloration with ammonium sulphide. The water is unfit for drinking.
Theo Enormous Gold Product of 1898 from South Africa says the Wiondike and Australia gold is shipped in large quantities. This year’s output will nearly double that of any previous twelve months. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters sales rise rapidly, touted to cure dyspepsia indigestion constipation nervousness and weakness.
The record lists prices for solid shot and mortar shells used by the United States Army. Eight-inch solid shot costs 69.80 dollars each, ten-inch 144.50, twelve-inch 212. Mortar shells for twelve-inch mortars weigh 800 pounds at 114 each and 1,060 pounds at 195 each.
A dated digest lists Stalls Catarrh Cure at 75 cents as a constitutional remedy and promotes Piso's Cure as preventing quick consumption. It echoes 19th century advertising, noting romance reading forbidden by the Worm amongMohammedans, and mentions compressed air as a motor in Ontario and a barberish query about whiskers.
Mondamin and Mirth, kings of corn and carnival, call all in the northwest to Sioux City for a week of splendid spectacles from October 8 to 14. The executive committee promises new attractions, parades, pyrotechnics, and speeches by national figures, with railways offering favorable one fare rates for festival week.
In Belgium experiments on dahlias show only disk areas lure butterflies and bees as much as fully exposed blooms. The results suggest insects rely on sense of smell rather than color to locate flowers, challenging the assumption that color guides them.
Allen's Foot-Ease powder relieves painful swollen feet and the sting of coins and buttons. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy and cures sweating callous and tired feet. Try it today sold by all druggists and shoe stores or by mail for 25c in stamps. Trial package free. address Allen 8 Olmsted, LeRoy, N.
A model in Port Said office tracks every ship as the canal is commanded from headquarters by telegraph. The system marks each vessel with a figure on the model, letting officials judge when ships should pass each other. Also notes crop pricing and seed catalog offer from Salter’s Seed Co. with 80 bushels per acre claim and wheat profits.
A six months voyage slows a ship by 15 percent due to barnacles on the hull. The text then digresses into advertisements and extraneous product claims about teething remedies and health pitches, ending with a prompt to send five cents for chemical samples and testimonials.
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