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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1901
Page
3
A jumble of ads and passages touts home cures and moral exhortations. Prominent claims promote Plostetter's Stomach Litters, Kemps Balsam for grippe, Gartieht Tea for headaches, and Putnam Padeluss Dyes, alongside fashion and household tips. Mentions of merchants, medicines, and domestic advice populate a fragmented page.
Memphis prepares for a large Confederate veterans reunion promising comfort and pleasure for visitors. Railroads plan to aid arrivals, with local committees offering courtesies and joint passenger associations likely to set favorable rates. Citizens aim to raise fifty thousand dollars for a good time, including notable donations such as a thousand dollar check from Robert R Church.
The Pig Four and Chesarwoke Ohio Route advertise one fare round trip tickets for March 1st and 2d departure from Washington. Enclosed is agent Puncker at 234 Clark Street Chicago for orders. The note ends with a stray line about a rolling stone.
A plan envisions an 138 mile electric line between Rome and Naples to provide fast, frequent service. The article notes other global ideas and curiosities, including a Yale professor’s bequeathed garden, population figures for Berlin donkeys, and crop prospects in Argentina and Oklahoma.
The Emperor of Austro-Hungary hosts at the residence of the Empress Elizabeth on Corfu Island. The villa is described as large and luxurious with beautiful grounds and valuable artworks.
The Times-Herald editorial cites Canada’s low murder indictments in 1899 and attributes crime immunity to swift punishment. It contrasts Canadian justice with U S delays and invites Americans to settle in Western Canada with cheap land and railway lands, noting open Indian Reserves in the Saskatchewan Valley.
A collage of ad prose and notices appears, including Ivory Soap baby care tips, foot fashion hints, rail fare sales by the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway, Louisville and Nashville train service to Florida, Pan American Exposition decor, and miscellaneous marketing copy about dentifrices and household tips.
A dying legionnaire in Algiers requests his comrades convey messages to his homeland. He speaks of his father’s sword and the baton of memory from Bingen on the Rhine, urging his brothers, sister, and mother to remember him as the battlefield fades.
A rosy maid informs a teen boy of Mr Ames proposing to Aunt Lucy, overheard while a mocking bird sings. The tale unfolds with playful dialogue about engagement and gossip in springtime at a sunlit garden home.
A young man and a woman reflect on growing up and romance amid memories of a proposal and a college pride. The man imitates a rival writer’s pretensions while the couple strolls past blooming orchards and lilac hedges, ending with a self deprecating jab at youth.
Professor Robert Ellis Thompson spoke in Philadelphia on Victorian poetry praising Tennyson as chief poet of the reign and Browning as a greater mind yet less of a poet. He called Browning a disenter and critic of convention while lauding Tennyson for mastery of verse forms and cadence and for works like In Memoriam and Idylls of the King.
An endorsement letter from Mrs. T. Petton of St. Paul Minnesota promotes Peruna as a cure for headaches heart palpitations and general malaise claiming it removes tiredness. Dr Hartman explains catarrh can affect any organ and urges women to seek his advice at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio if results fail.
An advertisement extols Grain-O as a nourishing coffee substitute for children costing about a dime to a nickel and sold by grocers. It also touts Garfield Tea as a multi use tonic claiming digestive regulation blood purification and overall health benefits for readers.
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