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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1897
Page
3
James Myers near Williamsport Pennsylvania faced a 300 pound black bear after tricking it from a decayed trunk. The bear stuck close, he feigned death, then rose to shoot and mortally wounded the animal after a tense pursuit.
The piece describes dyspepsia as a civilization disease with symptoms such as fullness after meals and nervous distress. It promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a stomach strengthener and explains a weather indicator using camphor. It also advertises a South companion art calendar and mentions Catarrh Cure claims and various patent medicine notes.
English inventor Grant Brambel, a Minnesota station agent, claims a rotary steam engine with simplified, powerful design. He explains a turbine-like piston system driven by timed steam intake and reversal, boasting engines up to 200 revolutions per minute and wide industrial use. Brambel predicts over 1.5 million in potential syndicate profits.
A British rights signing dispute centers on Mr Brambel whose air force powered boiler engine weighs 300 pounds and runs on patent technology. He holds patents in many civilized countries and is due one million dollars in compensation.
A moral exhortation urging youth to seek honest work, be polite, faithful to parents and church, and industrious. It emphasizes truth, modest dress, and frugality, warning against vice and idle amusements while encouraging reading and self improvement for lifelong success.
A brief Catholic Telegraph passage urges truth honesty and industry with living faith to succeed. It emphasizes acting well in one’s part and notes that honor rises from every condition when guided by virtue.
The new Scottish Rite Masonic Temple in Indianapolis is hailed as the finest of its kind in America. Construction began last May, the cornerstone was laid fully, and the nine story building features oolitic Time stone and buff brick. It includes elaborate carpets and Oriental hangings with every floor devoted to Scottish Rite use.
A study notes ancient methods of weather prediction and tools from lightning rods to iron towers, while mixing in a Christmas tale from Delstair. It surveys early experiments and craft across civilizations, highlighting figures like Gerbert and Papin and ending with a Scottish village Christmas scene.
A jumble of humorous lines and quips from various magazines and papers is catalogued, referencing jokes about marriage, politics, and social anecdotes. The collage mentions sources like Truth, Puck, Boston Traveler, and Chicago Tribune, with many misprints and garbled names.
Dyspepsia torments many after meals and resists ordinary medication. Hostetters Stomach Bitters offers relief and promises tranquility of the stomach while also claiming cures for malaria kidney complaints rheumatism constipation biliousness and nervousness. Arabian horses were introduced into Europe during the Crusades and the Moorish occupation of Spain.
Advertises fertile Texas tracts fifty miles west of Houston near Chesterville with high prairie land, drainage, rainfall, and wood soil. Offers a book Fertile Farm Lands and information on 9 cheap excursions by Southern Texas Colonization Co. and Linder Holm manager at 110 Rialto Building, Chicago. Mentions historians' view on horse domestication in central Asia or northern regions.
A garbled column lists various health claims and historical notes. References mention syrup laxatives and hair tonics, plus random facts about horses, Jewish tradition, and early New England, all in a disjointed, historically toned style.
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