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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1912
Page
6
An advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle effective laxative for the elderly and children. It claims relief from chronic constipation without harsh purgatives, touts stomach and liver strengthening tonic properties, and offers sample bottles by mail requests. The piece also includes a quip about a political joke.
Two boys in Youngstown discuss possible trouble with Russia over a treaty. They debate whether the country should worry and joke about Uncle Sam joining with the Gab railon Army, reflecting light wartime chatter among youths.
A Chautauqua assembly in Mankato used a call boy hired by doctors to summon speakers without publicity. During an afternoon, a physician left the platform to a call audience, prompting laughter and a quip about a brother starting in show business. Visitors also toured a private menagerie featuring a “Happy Family” cage with a lamb and mixed animals.
A Fort Worth man declares he suffered malaria and bilious attacks from coffee until switching to Postum. He claims zero malaria or boils since then, gained 15 pounds, and credits healthier blood to Postum over coffee. The ad cites Postum Co. and the booklet The Road to Wellville, noting continued reader letters.
A vivid, period snapshot shows crowds outside newspaper offices in January as pedestrians await early editions to read want ads. The scene features diverse workers and immigrants huddled in the cold, awaiting a newspaper board’s yellow clock to reveal the hour and the dawn of jobs.
A critique of Boston’s social elite and Harvard entry. The article argues the dominant set preserves exclusivity, limits contact with wider life, and shapes debutante class through rigid social rules. It notes a New York counterpart and the joint influence over Harvard clubs.
In In the World's Work PP Rodgers’s transcontinental venture yields a financial report. He earned about 76 000 dollars from backers and 4 000 prize money but spent 20 000 dollars on repairs and 3 000 on the machine, leaving a small net. The piece reflects on the era’s blend of achievement and money with a reflective aside on the emotional value of accomplishment.
A fragmented OCR snippet presents puzzling lines about perverseness and unusual queries. The readable portions mention phrases like "how are thuse cark shuva you get" and "Crrent" with a note about water and work, offering no clear event, person, or place.
A Woman's Home Companion account details a staged dramatization of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women in Buffalo. Production by Alcott family heirs amid permission battles, with props and costumes donated by relatives. bankruptcy filings reveal an Oxford student owing 80000 pounds since 1910 from racing and gambling.
Ida M Tarbell presents a pointed extract on women in business noting their fierce dedication to work and resistance to interference. She argues women treat their enterprises as personal, hindering broader, impersonal judgments needed to lead large undertakings.
An exploration of early infant learning and sensorimotor development. It describes how feeding, movement, and sight form first associations, how experiences rapidly fuse with senses, and how a child’s mind expands as new objects and stimuli challenge existing knowledge, with springtime observations of a child exploring outdoors.
A twelve foot wooden wheel with nine large metal spheres sits on a frame in a narrow Cal street. The spheres move in grooves causing weight shifts that draw the wheel toward the center, creating an illusion of perpetual motion. Advertisements on the frame hint at business aims, drawing thousands who inspect but detect no external power.
A claim suggests a woman can converse more easily because her jaws have been trained by chewing gum. The text presents the idea as a casual observation without supporting evidence or expert confirmation.
Enrico Caruso, in Paris, says he signed a four year contract to sing in America and will seek higher pay beyond his usual 4000 dollar night with a five month guaranteed minimum. He notes a possible Wagnerian future after his voice matures and discusses operatic plans and voice quality. Current pay is believed to be 2500 dollars per performance.
The Rev George Brown describes in New Britain a custom of secluding prospective brides in bamboo cages before marriage. He reports cages are small dark enclosures with water holds and space only to sit, with daily bathing in a wooden bowl kept nearby, illustrating harsh polygamy suppression practices among natives.
The riddle asks why rain falls to wash windows or press a suit, a windy metaphor for cause and effect. It frames a curious inquiry about practical outcomes hidden in everyday acts.
Final service for Ning Vrederlek VIII of Denmark will be held in Roskilde Cathedral chapel. After the service the body will be interred in a vault of the Cathedral on May 24, with army detachments guarding day and night at the cathedral.
A Fort Scott man describes kidney surgery followed by recurring symptoms. After using Doan's Kidney Pills, he reports immediate kidney action improvement, sediment and stone particles passing, eventual stone dissolution, and total symptom relief plus weight gain. A second note cites a lawyer’s persuasive plea in a horse theft case.
A quirky clipping discusses Lowell’s bankruptcy rumors and parodies a health remedy pitch. It mentions Powell and a critique of imagination, ending with a jab at the man who imagines himself on the edge of making his mark.
In Ashland Kentucky and Camden Newfoundland women report relief from female and kidney troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Testimonials claim cures without surgery and praise the remedy produced from roots and herbs over thirty years ago by a woman. Letters to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. offer confidential advice.
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