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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
2
A prominent New York stockbroker says newspapers miss most cases against brokers as customers blame brokers for losses and not for wins. He claims juries never favor brokers, noting jurors’ market damage and lasting grudges against the industry.
Drummond Wisconsin tale from Aug 21 describes whole families in Bayfield County endorsing Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr T P Wold recounts back pain relief after one box, joined by his wife’s satisfaction. Claims note backache as an early sign of kidney disease and assert pills cure and prevent rheumatism dropsy and related ailments.
Colorado oil will be used by the Denver and Rio Grande railroad to lay the dust along its lines as fast experiments. About 4,000 gallons of oil per mile will be required, giving a significant boost to the petroleum industry in the Centennial State.
A playful exchange about berry growth features a peddler and a lady debating whether the berries have reached full size. The humor centers on the peddler’s insistence and the lady’s cautious doubt in a quaint market scene.
A florist advised a plain method using Ivory Soap around the roots and foliage to deter slugs on lilac bushes. The writer reports this approach is simple, effective, and leaves plants healthy with no need for complex sprays.
An older piece urges fuss over age and nagging harms charm while offering advice on staying youthful. It cites a kitchen table philosophy about worry, temper, and affection, then features an advertorial for Grape-Nuts and Postum, praising health gains and a testimonial from a Welden, Wisconsin sender.
Grace defies Cripps and Mr. Sharp as a carriage pursuit unfolds through woodlands. Cripps shields Grace from danger and drives toward a cottage while Sharp confronts them with threats and a pistol, ending with a cliffhanger of pursuit and law.
In a tense scene Cripps the Carrier, with Tatty and Cripps’s rivals in pursuit, presses a dramatic chase through towns and alleys. Old Hardenesty confronts Cripps and Delchin, while Master Cripps urges his plans as Dobbin bears the strain toward a perilous corner.
The article recounts Eimear Wakefield painting a Western Union smokestack with the crowd watching as he loops and balances on scaffolding. Police intervene when he playfully taunts officers before descending. His firm later hires a more conservative replacement, citing safety concerns.
Gyayeo Cooke-L questions if a father’s mood explains the whistles heard in the yard. Wooadhy Tooke hints the approach of someone expected to return home, while Carclesa Papa and Woodby Tooke-itace discuss the noise and timing amid casual family chatter.
A garbled 19th century Cleveland Leader excerpt hints at social satire on gender status and household roles. The text references Mrs Tharnies of Wicks Corners and a nurse named Txin amid a scene of whispered confidences and public gossip.
A fragmented recipe outlines making a ginger vinegar with sugar and ground ginger, then a chicken croquette batter with butter lemon juice and milk. It instructs mixing minced chicken with flour for thickening, shaping into relts or troquettes, frying in hot fat, and serving with a lemon scented white sauce.
Cream one and a half cups of sugar and butter. Add half cup milk and one cup fresh grated coconut. Sift two cups flour and two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Fold in the whites of four eggs. Bake in layer tins. Spread with icing from two egg whites and coconut plus powdered sugar. Add grated orange or lemon for flavor.
Select not too ripe tomatoes and cut off the blossom end. Scoop out pulp and fill with rice mixed with parsley herbs salt red pepper and olive oil. Bake in seasoned olive oil in a cheap dish until rice is tender and skins wrinkle. Serve hot with the baked tomatoes.
A vintage recipe for rich sago pudding describes soaking sago in sweet milk for four hours, then adding boiling milk and eggs yolks with sugar. The mix is baked, cooled, then meringue made from beaten egg whites is folded in and browned. Jelly may be spread on top before adding the meringue.
A veteran housekeeper shares practical cleaning advice for kitchens and lamps. Tips cover making bright grates with French time and water, cleaning duplex burners, testing mushrooms, scrubbing brass, coffee stains, baby care outdoors, medicine stains on liver, wooden beds, work-savers for cooks, folding linens, and lamp chimney cleaning with steam.
A fragment describes a monstrous eight inch cheroot from Burma. It is made of wood pulp tobacco molasses and herbs wrapped in bamboo skin. The cigar’s width fills a young smoker's mouth and is lit with great effort. It is often presented with purple or gold wrapping.
Dr Melvin M Page of Erie Pa reports a severe kidney illness from excess drinks in New York and a recovery after using Deans Kidney Pills. He claims weight loss of 72 pounds and a return to health by 1896 weighing 136 pounds. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY at 5 cents per bottle.
A historical account touts Castoria as a trusted vegetable remedy for children, endorsed by physicians such as Dr. McCann of Omaha and cited in medical journals. It claims Castoria regulates digestion, soothes fever and sleep, and is free from opium or morphine, with widespread family use noted over decades.
Fragmentary OCR shows a drugstore scene with a polite customer asking for change and a stamp, a clerk replying. The text then meanders to vague references to foot care products and shoe stores with jumbled phrases and a listed address line.
A fragment shows Bridget denying chores were done and claiming she swept three times the day before. The narrator notes a messy floor and mentions repeated phrases about keeping up appearances.
A fragmented note describes a couple’s attempt at marriage going awry as teasing erupts into trouble on a leap day. The text hints at marital strain and foggy misreadings around planned festivities.
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