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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1897
Page
3
A bizarre dance like greeting called the double twist originates at a horse show. Two people clasp hands then pause before a closer, stronger shake, risking bumped noses if misaligned, yet delivering a vigorous, celebratory contact when perfectly synchronized.
Mr. Hooker Cline, a Greensburg blacksmith, owns a cat praised for tricks. It bows as a greeting and can dance through two waltzes and a twostep, while standing on its hind legs and offering a paw for a shake. The article notes the animal attracts considerable attention on the street.
A故事 recounts a cat taken downtown with its master on Mondays. The pet wears a suit, walks on hind legs, and tips its hat to ladies. It smokes cigars, chews tobacco, and drinks beer, preferring lager to milk, and shuns mice. Pickles is eaten greedily in large quantities.
In a Paris restaurant two men are served a dozen oysters each. One flees as the last shell is opened, claiming a near tooth and a found pearl. The owner offers to value and purchase the jewel but the bill is settled with two more dozen oysters. The supposed pearl proves to be a fake.
The report notes that with equal weight rather than equal size, woods like ash, pine, and hemlock can surpass steel in strength per area. Hemlock weighs three times the steel reference, with ash exceeding pine in strength, while the work required varies greatly per material, occupying much space. The passage condemns such strict views as a disgrace to religion and detrimental to mirth.
Lovers of flowers face the challenge of keeping plants free from insects. A Philadelphia inventor proposes a tobacco fumigation method using a pepper box with a rubber bulb to replace bellows, creating a simple appliance to smoke and protect houseplants.
A description explains a fumigation method for plants using tobacco lit and pressed by a bulb to create a smoke atomizer. The smoke is directed to cover the entire plant quickly, enabling uniform treatment in minutes.
A long, wandering OCR passage outlines a homemade yeast recipe with potatoes hops sugar and flour, then shifts to kitchen practices and odd notes on boiling, stirring, and setting creams. It includes household hints about omelet making, turnips, flavorings, and tools, with stray lines about medicine and cologne. The text is fragmentary but preserves several named items and cooking methods in a period newspaper voice.
Anamosa Iowa readers hear two striking endorsements from local residents. Wm Walton reports his wife’s long illness improved after using Pink Pills, detailing relief from headaches and nerve issues, with the family keeping pills on hand and recommended to friends. Mrs C E Bell, tinsmith J G Cudworth & Co. employee, suffers chronic headaches but notes complete relief after trying Pink Pills, praising them as best cure and promising to share details with others.
A French visitor recounts an odd scene in Chicago where a salt box allegedly held Blackine and brushes. He contrasts this with a college town incident involving a revered college president, a woman of learning, and boot polishing. The tale reflects cultural contrasts amid democrat village customs.
The first week of the month saw the largest movement of settlers to North Dakota, with 1,437 men women and children arriving from various states including Italians and Dunkers. They travel in five train sections, bringing households and farm implements to establish settlements near the Great Northern Railway, many on government land still available.
Fragmented OCR text hints at a gossip or humor item about late night habits and relationships. Names and locations are unclear, but tone suggests a noisily domestic vignette with references to a husband and personal routines. The readable portions imply a playful column fragment rather than a full report.
A brisk pitch for A. Star Brewer’s Stomach Bitters asserts it cures rheumatism by arresting the disease early, warning that unchecked rheumatism can last a lifetime or harm the heart. It adds the remedy also treats chills fever dyspepsia and liver complaints.
Mrs Bosting tells her husband at breakfast that Emerson will be taken downtown this afternoon to be measured for a pair of spectacles. Judge.
The Northern Steamship Company will inaugurate the fourth season of passenger service on the Great Lakes with the first east bound voyage from Duluth on Tuesday June 15. Schedules show departures from Duluth on Tuesdays and Saturdays and from Buffalo on Tuesdays and Fridays. The first west bound voyage from Buttato will be on June 18. The company operates the North West and North Land the only exclusively passenger steamships on the lakes to attract tourist travel to the northwest. Freight service begins April 20 with the first sailing from Duluth. For time berth rates and fare, contact W. B. McNider in Sioux City.
The New York Weekly notes an unusual scene as organists face chill winds and closed windows. The piece observes local street music and signs of paying crowds waning while performers struggle to stay warm and visible.
Speculators and experienced miners will push into Black Hills areas once snow melts. The North Western Line offers direct service with throwed trains to Deadwood. Write J R Buchanan, General Passenger Agent, for details from Omaha Nebraska.
An 18th or 19th century style note discusses Sew Yous Day superstition urging new clothes to avoid yearly misfortune. It mentions a rhyme about New Year attire and warns against tatageat health boosting ads. A German Empress anecdote references trinkets and a Prussian balfpenny teapot and flat cogs from various German principalities.
A garbled OCR fragment presents scattered terms from multiple brands and places. The legible elements reference financing sums and wholesale entities, but the overall meaning is obscured, yielding a hazardous jumble of names, numbers, and stray phrases without a coherent event or context.
The Washington Star quotes Mrs. Stormington Barnes praising a speaker for holding the audience spellbound. Her remark notes the crowd’s silence as a sign of deep engagement and risk of missing parts of the talk. The exchange references a "Jt" or "Wm" as interlocutors with reactions to the performance.
A historical notice describes a person afflicted with a long standing leg sore described as scrofulous in origin. The condition persisted for many years with springtime recurrences noted. No medical remedies or outcomes are provided in the fragment.
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