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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1897
Page
8
A correspondent cites a French illness scare tied to antipyrine use. A physician warns that a lotion composed largely of antipyrine, given in insufficiently small doses, leads to deaths misattributed to influenza. The piece urges caution among readers.
A fragmented advertisement letter from Kalamazoo Michigan dated April 6 1897 extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as the remedy for nervous prostration and insanity claiming the user rose from 100 to 158 pounds after six bottles. The note alleges relief from sleeplessness heart ache and digestive issues and mentions a former stay in an insane asylum.
Lucretia Ritter, a country schoolteacher in Sullivan County Pennsylvania, faced a terrifying encounter when a bear chased her along a lonely path from a farmhouse toward Ek Lake. She normally takes a shortcut through the woods, but the incident interrupted her routine walk to the school.
A girl encountered a full grown bear on her path while returning to her boarding house. She climbed a crooked tree after her lunch basket was devoured. The bear held her for over three hours until Farmer Swartz frightened it away and she fainted from shock.
The piece notes that fifteenth and sixteenth century England favored rebus and monogram name expressions. It cites a Sussex church with a sixteenth century porch builder named Airborne shown by a churn holding figure. An antique carving puzzled a reader, showing town name Wattan as a hare on a tun. locals recall hares as wats, a regional term enduring in the area.
The text notes that chartered companies originated with the Portuguese in 1444 under Prince Henry the Navigator, forming the first chartered African company trading on Africa's west coast. It states the first English chartered company formed in 1505 under Henry VII for merchants trading with the Netherlands, named the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers. It also asserts Isaiah as the most sublime of poets, whose vivid word pictures influenced later writers.
An old advert describes Bilomach Bitters as a tonic for nervous dyspepsia. It claims relief from mental worry, improved digestion, and increased nerve vigor after a course, with sensations of well being as the tonic works.
A Massillon area feature describes a hanging rock on the Wapsipinicon River bank about a quarter mile east of Massillon. Two seventy foot wells in a bluff above the river, reputedly infested with firedamp, attract interest along with swarms of mosquitoes in warmer months. legends of midnight musical sounds were debunked by scientists.
The Minnesota Summer Resort at Lake Minnetonka near the Twin Cities is highlighted as a premier yachting retreat with 150 miles of shoreline, forested scenery, and cottages. Lafayette at Minnetonka Beach opens June 26 for the 1897 season. inquiries go to E. V. Holcombe, manager, St Paul. Rates to St Paul and the area available via W. B. McNider, G P A, Sioux City.
The article notes a strong Cossack belief that Heaven greets warriors who are personally clean at the moment of death. Before battle they perform meticulous toilet rites, dress in clean garments, and wear their best outfits for the fight.
An old time ad touts Allen’s Foot-Ease powder to cure painful swollen feet and to ease tight shoes. It claims instant relief from bunions, corns, sweating and callouses with a household remedy marketed through druggists and shoe stores. Mail order available for 25 cents from Allen & Co. Le Roy New York.
An old note argues that a ride before breakfast often backfires. The dynamometer tests show weakness upon waking, with strength peaking after midday and fading, then rising again toward evening. It warns excesses of overwork and idleness as main foes and urges pairing early rising with early eating.
An excerpt shows a professor urging clarity and a sophomore challenging the draft as the text critiques the value of introducing new cultural advances. The dialogue underscores the demand for accessible writing and the tension between erudition and comprehension.
Old San Francisco bookshops hold many rare volumes as families who journeyed west in 1849 sold personal property. The region claims a unique cache of books, second only to New York, due to reverses of fortune affecting early settlers.
Hall's Catarorh Cure is advertised as a constitutional cure priced at 76 cents. The snippet also notes widespread deposits in Swiss savings banks and various consumer mentions including hair renewal, a Port Washington contract, and baby teething remedy marketing.
This guide stresses washing blankets with plenty of soft water and good soap to prevent shrinking and preserve softness and color. Shake out dust, soak in warm water with Ivory soap, wash gently by hand, rinse until suds are gone, add blueing, dry, and store in a cool room.
Philadelphia Press comments on Othello and Desdemona with a sharp ending line asserting that any woman who sobs in bed ought to be killed, reflecting editorial stance on the tragedy.
A letter extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for pregnancy related cravings and maternal weakness. Mrs. L Z Warmney credits the tonic with restoring health, enabling a full term pregnancy and a healthy seven month old baby, and urges others to seek relief.
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