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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1910
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text hints at a serialized mystery titled Betty Lancey with remarks on its merits and modern suspense. The excerpt is garbled but suggests a dramatic, serialized narrative centered on Betty Lancey and a suspect mystery.
Police officer Doherty finds Annie Desterle collapsed after a violent rush of fear and confusion with a mysterious upstairs room, a surgeon called, a third floor room opened to a foul odor, a bowl of violets on a bed, and a limp figure beneath a drenched veil of secrecy in a quiet boarding house.
In a New York City estate a bizarre creature attacks Pat Doherty as police arrive to seize a terrifying figure with an ape like skull and a monstrous grin. Despite attempts with blankets and a pistol, the thing evades capture and escapes amid a chaotic, deadly confrontation.
The text presents a garbled dialogue in which Mrs Nagget comments that her sister is not the most refined person, and her husband retorts belligerently. The exchange conveys tension and judgment within a domestic setting amid clipped, partial speech.
D O Mills renowned banker and philanthropist died suddenly at his Millbrae winter home due to Angina pectoris. Born September 26, 1836 in Salem he rose from clerk to founder of D O Mills & Co and built the Mills Building in New York. He chaired Bank of California, later shaping finance and charities with his Mills hotels and extensive holdings. He married Jane Templeton in 1864 and left son Ogden Mills, a prominent public figure.
Secretary Wilson of the Agriculture Department announces cost of production reports from every state to compare farm prices with city prices. He says agents will report exhaustively on all food products and publish findings to reveal the true cost of living, aiming to expose excess profits and explain rising prices.
The first regular session of the Seventy-eighth General Assembly of Ohio opens with Speaker Mooney and Lieut. Gov. Teadway presiding in the House and Senate respectively. The body consists of 20 Republicans and 14 Democrats in the Senate and 63 Republicans and 45 Democrats in the House, with two members having died. Mooney urges a public utilities commission, thorough and open probes of state offices, and corporate taxation reform. President Taft is said to have endorsed the program in a White House conference. Gov. Harmon’s first annual message draws strong interest, with Republicans signaling readiness to pursue many recommendations.
In Santa Claus Indiana a fire fatally burned two young children whose mother found their blackened bodies in a room where they were playing an hour earlier. Mrs Fred Kaller, caring for cows in the barn, rushed back to help after hearing screams as smoke filled the rooms. The mother and husband aided in the rescue but the children died. The article notes the identities of the two toddlers as their exact ages are unclear in the text.
Munyon's Paw Pow Pills are advertised as a gentle, non irritating tonic. They claim to invigorate the stomach liver and nerves, enrich the blood and aid nourishment without causing weakness. The ad cites free medical advice from Munyon's Doctors and lists multiple remedies with prices including 26c for cold remedy and 6c for rheumatism remedy.
G. T. Roberts of Resaca Georgia reports using vous traisnant on a horse to cure swee ney and says he removed a spavin from a mule as large as a guinea. He asserts it is the best remedy for lame.
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