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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1905
Page
8
Veteran with severe kidney and bladder issues spent hundreds on doctors without relief. He describes illness from exposure to wet cold during service and credits Peruna as more effective than other medicines. The advertisement urges readers to write Dr. S. O. Tarun for the MHovinian Sanitarium in Winks, Olle, proposing Peruna as a remedy.
Mumbled dialogue reflects a confusing exchange about money in what seems a fragmentary overheard scene. The speakers mention “blind pool” and “bags,” with a tangential reference to pity and division, likely from a cryptic or garbled transcript.
A letter from Canada touts 480 acres bought for £12,000 yielding 278 bushels wheat and 4400 bushels oats with idle stocks and high land value. It claims returns of 25 percent plus improved land prices, citing several families who prospered by farming in Saskatchewan and Western Canada amid praise of climate, crops, and government assistance programs.
A garbled dialogue shows a harsh exchange about a daughter and a visitor. Amid the absurd, a mock medical ad promises a guaranteed cure for piles. The text blends fragmentary gossip with a selling pitch and a faint scene of a man aiding someone with mud.
The fragment mentions Sateen, Cece Vale, Mr. Bigger, Mrs Bigger and Baby Bigger. It questions which is the most interesting family member and notes Baby Bigger as the largest or most prominent in the context.
The Talli mian Canal Commission's engineering committee presents first definite plans for a Panama waterway. A 60 foot surface, 160 foot bottom width canal with twin locks, costing about 280 million dollars, would take 9 to 12 years to build and would allow future widening or deepening to handle increased traffic.
A Washington dispatch reports extended civil service coverage to postmasters at all levels from presidential to fourth class. The Postmaster General indicates reforms will target postmasters with charges and investigations, affecting Congress and politicians connected to appointive posts.
Reports of peasant uprisings in south Russia and revolutions looming in Nicaragua and Guatemala spark tensions as Russia faces bomb imports and police crackdowns. A Welsh colliery explosion kills twenty, strikes surge in St Petersburg, and Spanish anarchists target Paris. News covers Lord Rosebery’s anti home rule stance, Crete's fate, Venezuela unrest, and a Norwegian cabinet crisis.
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