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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1897
Page
7
A collage of odd facts and errors spans poisons on South American arrows, a London mayoral badge bond, dead reckoning, ancient Jutland, longevity myths, canyon etymology, protest name order, Bor Gunnar’s wooden church, Pendleton power sabotage, and the Bank of France photo surveillance system for detecting frauds.
A garbled 19th century style item lists varied facts from Cuba to Russia, Aldbriva and France, with misread figures and names. It mentions Mary Young of Rochester arrested for insulting remarks, old civic spending on statues, and a vague note on Lord Cavendish’s rapid ride. Also notes include population figures, Sotheby's sale, and a long odd paragraph about New Guinea natives, dogs, and quirky geography, all rendered in error.
A boy named Breinig on a hunting trip uncovered a well preserved skeleton a tomahawk made of mint and darts or arrow heads in the woods. The artifacts will be turned over to Lehigh University museum for study and display.
A distraught speaker laments that his safety hangs by a slender thread as she wrings her hands in helpless anguish. The scene shifts to a creaking kitchen where a card and a faded image loom, while moral reflections on faith, hypocrisy, heredity, and self-awareness echo through a fragmented piece with archaic prose.
A montage of brief items covers topics from Mexican military duty debates and Maine rail jobs for women to a Parma boy's heart treatment, Roentgen rays in glow worms, and a Sabine River floating island. It also notes a New York lithographer's discharge, Argentina cattle, a London spectacles charity, a Japan canal plan, an accident at Stein Brewers in Louisville, and a dangerous beer vat incident.
An old ad notes a weed in the garden can be destroyed when it starts and promotes minute cough cure by T. D. Collins & Co. as a quick remedy. The fragment reflects period medical advertising language.
An advertisement by T A Slocums M D of New York offers three free three-bottles of a new scientific remedy for consumption and lung diseases to readers of the Times. It claims instant cures, testimonials, and a religious duty to donate. Readers are urged to write with address details to 98 Pine Street New York.
A brief item from Chicora Pennsylvania mentions a claimed One Minute cough cure by a local reader Richard Vene and M Mee Vunsel praising its effects on their family. The report says it cured a severe measles siege and productive cough, claiming rapid relief after other cures failed.
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