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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1903
Page
8
A garbled historical fragment recounts Billington seeking a great ocean passage, with claims of Spanish advantage and a glimpse of distant seas. A later anecdote presents Doan's Kidney Pills testimonial, then a stray poem and old medical ad copy. The text mixes fictional voyage bits with unrelated memory prose and advertising fragments from different periods.
A quirky dialogue scene shows a hopeful actor asked if he ever appeared before the lights. He replies with a vow to listen for his best girl’s approaching voice and vanish at the sight of footlights. The text ends with a household mention and an April date in Wakita Oklahoma.
A garbled OCR fragment contemplates friendship between a woman and a man, mentions testing friendship with a few dollars, and references creamery prices and butter color. The text shifts to a scene with a visitor named Dr. Butter and a social rebuke over conduct, ending with “The Parent” remark.
The readable text fragments reference an unhoused person and a vague bid or notice, with garbled names and terms. No clear events, dates, or organizations are identifiable to form a factual card.
A Chicago Herald recap of the Mary Flannagan and Tim Grogan tale details a theft investigation tied to Nelson's warehouse bids and a plan gone missing. Detective Grogan tracks the culprit with Tim Flannagan and Mary Flannagan involved, ending in a marriage and a revelation that Tim briefly posed as a thief to recover the stolen papers.
The fragmentary wedding notice mocks civic wedding announcements. It describes Dayse Mayma as highly accomplished, a famed dancer, with multiple New York visits and proposals. The groom, a stove store clerk, is praised for luck. The text lampoons wedding dress costs, nervous frustration, and many irrelevant details.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe disdain toward Heal Amshortey and a disrupted scene referencing a town, trains, and a harmed individual. The readable text is highly incomplete and lacks clear names, dates, places, or outcomes for a solid summary.
A flood story describes New York City tenants on rooftop balconies as waters rise. An elderly Black man on a cabin balcony stays calm amid the flood, confident the river will not rise further and that his dog shares that restraint. Neighbors gather as water reaches lower floors and relief waits.
Fragmentary notes mention a Riversids petition and a "Key Wert Abothier" as polizeman on the beat. The garbled text references Inspector Gasey and Millikit’s lover, with a general praise for a policeman who sits on duty.
Lon Manley, once told by doctors he would never recover from Bright's Disease, recounts his recovery after four to five years of kidney, stomach and liver troubles. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with restoring his health and enabling him to work again.
Dr Daniel Bermvily of Reading, fleet surgeon of the Asiatic squadron, returns from a 56000 mile cruise as Rear Admiral Rodgers staffer Bertollette and Con ger are received by the Empress Dowager and Emperor in the Imperial City. About 30 to 40 mandarins attend the audience with a royal procession and gate escorts.
A Connecticut woman reports decades of indigestion heart trouble and constant fear improved after using Grape Nuts. She describes a year of stability with no stomach distress, weight restored, and energy returning, crediting the cereal for her recovery and youthful appearance.
A poemlike vignette recounts a boy’s bungled honesty trials from a sixpence to a shilling and a peppermint as a rewarded moral, ending with a rural market yield note showing average grogs and cereal crop values per acre across cultivated lands in the country.
Miss Anuree Barney of Atlanta Georgia writes that after three years of painful menstrual inflammation and a threatened operation she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Two bottles improved her condition and after ten weeks she gained eighteen pounds and was in excellent health. She urges other women to try the remedy.
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