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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1904
Page
4
A heated public meeting at the Cove featured remarks on a fallen moneylender named Cossey. Critics labeled him miserly while supporters urged charity, acknowledging faults but stressing fairness. The service speaker defended the departed man, insisting he was harsher in some ways yet deserving charitable remembrance.
In Barton North Dakota on May 9 a local family reports using Dodd's Kidney Pills as protection against disease. They claim quick relief from symptoms kidneys and backache and cite a brother with diabetes who outlived a doctor’s prognosis after taking the remedy for years.
A learned monkey teases an elephant about a Latin pun. The monkey notes impedimenta means baggage and the elephant’s trunk. The elephant starts to swing for a sapling, but the monkey escapes to a high tree.
Features on Hall's Catarrh Cure pamphlet claims and a medical pitch by F J Cheney and Co. while a photographer critiques women's dress, warning that two material sleeves produce visual disharmony and patchwork effects in fashion.
A 48 month old child, while playing on the floor as the mother unpacked an old trunk, drank carbolic acid from a bottle. He suffered severe burns to throat and stomach, faltered for months, and only improved after diet changes. Grandmother advised Grape-Nuts, and the child began to recover with flesh returning and cheeks reddening.
Twenty four miles east of the city a vast fortress guards the dethroned emperor in a stone island prison on Ladoga. Charlie Balgonie, amid wary guards and political intrigue, learns that two subalterns have deserted and faces a grim fate for those tied to the imperial scheme. Natalie’s memory haunts him as he endures the governor Bernikoff and the harsh regime. The tale follows power, loyalty, and a perilous future for Mierowitz and family.
A report cited by the New York Times from Oliver J. D. Hughes, consul-general at Coburg, argues German farmers often save money with hand labor versus machines. It notes spade cultivation and tasks like sowing, manure scattering, and gathering can be cheaper by hand, with specific per-hectare costs showing machines lagging in several operations.
A Chicago Daily News quotation on reputation links social chatter to self-knowledge. The fragment notes fashion label Stohe 210 and mentions Gu School, echoing a local urban culture snapshot.
Historian notes a century past in the Connecticut valley marked by devastating floods drowning many and displacing hundreds. Jefferson pardoned deserters who hid in Louisiana before December 20, 1803, while Ohio courts debated their federal obligations.
Seventy five years ago Bengal exports under British control reached five million dollars annually. The first Roman Catholic peers took seats in the English House of Lords. An incendiary crime occurred at West Minwater Abbey. The pope granted to Jewish and Christian dissenters in Rome all privileges previously removed by his predecessor. The Duke of Norfolk and seven Roman Catholic peers also seated in the Lords. An Australian exploring party departed Sydney to seek the source of several large rivers.
A collage of 19th century events: Saratoga arrives near Tlanotut after a long voyage. Turkey’s sultan hosts Napoleon with a grand banquet. Labor turmoil in Preston ends an operatives strike. U.S. neutrality in the Crimean War declared. Santa Ana’s squadron abandons Acapulco blockade. smallpox plagues English ships. St Louis tailors strike over Confederate uniforms. Negro and white soldiers paid differently in the U.S. Army. George M. Patchen dies in New York, famed harness sire. Garfield seeks probes into Chase charges. Chicago Board of Trade grants weekly aid to families of draftees. U.S. House approves funds to equip troops. Seburg’s Sumner eulogy echoes in Boston. Early railroad rate talks unfold as Polish priests face oppression. Bilbao fed amid siege. Philadelphia gag ring inquiry closes.
Twenty years ago Sir Michael Flicks-Beach proposed a censure motion in the British Commons criticizing the government's slow Sudan policy. Bayard declared in the United States Renata that socialism is vanity, arguing for a government overhaul amid fiscal and political turmoil.
A lengthy letter from Milas IXc, once a prosperous farmer, now in Western Canada, describes homestead life. He details land claims near Edmonton and Lake St. Anne, crops of potatoes, barley, oats, hay, and pasture. He notes Chinook winds, log house construction, lumber from local mills, abundant wild fruit, and plentiful game, with shipments of fish to St Albert and Edmonton.
A humorous exchange unfolds with a mistress and a gentleman as she claims talk is frequent though the hour is short. A passerby mentions using Pino's Qure for consumption for two years with high praise from Mrs Youreley of California dated September 2.
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