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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1897
Page
7
A plainsman recalls riding through a stampede of millions of buffalo in Medicine Valley Kansas. He describes leaping from buffalo hump to hump to escape, traveling on their backs for six miles and narrowly surviving what he calls his closest shave.
A Welcohburg correspondent reports three white snakes seen near the West Fork, about 34 feet long with pink eyes, claiming an unbelievable sight denied by family but sworn to as true. French inventors patent a meat preservation method via potassium iodide dip, claiming freshness and crust drying. A critic notes a Miss Quickletop’s use of adjectives to describe admirers, suggesting she is late to classify.
An illustrated method uses two stout wooden levers tied and attached to a bowlder, with a rope from the team to the whiffletree for lifting the stone to ground level. The piece explains why surface bowlders are easy to lift and why deeply embedded ones require digging.
A thrift-minded farming note expands on tools and storage near barns to cut waste and extend implements life. Advice covers swine feeding, horse handling, and managing Italian bees. It stresses strong colonies, wintering, brood care, and safe feeding after cold weather with candy from sugar.
The piece discusses caretaking duties and the idea of a dedicated keeper for things, then shifts to praise for Louisville’s telephone system. It notes the central office lamps when receivers are lifted, claims Louisville’s setup as best in the world, and expects adoption in major cities, citing Mr. T. C. Wales of Boston.
A jumble of home cures and odd tips appears in Health Monthly listing cranberry remedies for walatia and erysipelas, clam broth for weak stomachs, cranberry poultice for erythema, and weird practices like swallowing saliva and breathing fumes to treat coughs. The page mixes folk cures with mispellings and dubious advice.
A fragmented read mentions a woman’s reasons tied to a Cincinnati banquet. The text is incomplete but implies scrutiny or judgment of a social event and its attendees. No clear names, dates, or outcomes are readable.
A jumble of telegraph news, odd prospects, and local notices appears, including a reference to Joan Ward linked to Pope in a Duncan tableau and Lord Middlesex Essex prayer, plus an Allen's Foot-Ease advertisement promising dry feet and warmth with a free sample offer.
Java official Dr Geerlings and Amsterdam chemistry professor says he has a simple process to convert potato starch into sugar. He filed to the French Academy of Sciences to claim priority before public details are released. Also includes a mock medical ad and a detective fiction snippet from Washington Evening Star.
Fragmentary text shows a reporter discussing a strained marriage or betrothal. It mentions a daughter, a bargaining tone, parental concern, and potential trouble if the father learns. The exact names and details are obscured by garbled OCR.
A fragment warns of danger and siege with medical adage urging quick use of Hostetters Stomach Bittere for early rheumatism constipation nervousness and kidney complaint amid crisis signals.
A poorly readable snippet mentions snakes that coile in winter sleep together and threading into odd patent remedies. It advertises foot powder 25c and shoe ease aids, plus a free sample from Allen 5 Olmsted Le Roy NY. A joke exchanges fare with a conductor and a cold cure in one day.
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