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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1897
Page
3
Kaneas contemplates a new law to use convicts in three classes. One group would dig irrigation ditches, another build roads, and a third raise farm products for State Institutions. A fourth group would remain at the State prison for rock breaking and macadam road work.
An OCR era notice mixes farming offers for French Artichokes and seed sales with unrelated homely maxims and misquoted names. It mentions planting one acre, a June 31 deadline, and $4 remittance, then diverges into advice about health, religion, and children’s remedies before listing rental farms and moral sayings.
Charley Marshall, eighteen, leaves home for the city in new clothes hoping to seek his fortune. An old farmer-type man joins him on the train, shares a reserved demeanor, then reveals a warning glare and accuses Charley of being a confidence man.
Fragmented OCR blends tales of Noah and a camel with medical claims about St Jacobs Oil and a sudden note forgery scandal. It mixes health ads with a London report on forged currency and a Pa. obituary about Mrs Tenth Heller who died after dramatic weight gain.
A woman picked up unconscious on Broadway was found covered with sores from morphine injections. Once a prosperous New York publishing house employee, she suffered a womb ailment misdiagnosed, and a reformer urges Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy while praising Mrs Pinkham's aid.
A long compendium of domestic guidance covers laundry sorting five grades, soap and borax ratios, starch and salt usage, and careful ironing. It also offers apron patterns, coffee and rice preparation notes, a trick from a British show, quick honey cakes, and simple bread recipes.
A Sauk Centre Herald open letter recounts a German-born 87 year old farmer’s wife who suffered leu corrhoea for a decade. After trying many remedies she credits Pink Pills with full recovery and renewed strength. Notary confirms the document dated December 19 1596. Pink Pills advertised as blood and nerve tonics offered boxed at 50 cents or six for $2.50 from Dr Williams Medicine Co.
A brief dialogue shows a mother asking about pet day experience and a cautious response about handling children. The warning notes a view that a child may bite if treated like a nurse, illustrating a cautionary domestic anecdote.
The piece discusses a proposed decimal clock system dividing the day into ten hours ten minutes of a hundred seconds each and outlines a speculative global time scheme. It also includes scattered remarks about Washington politics and personal anecdotes, with references to McKinley era events and a brief note on weather and a cabinet decision.
The article explains European powers avoid war between Greece and Turkey because Ottoman debts largely belong to French English and Austrian holders while Greek liabilities rest with German investors. A conflict would worsen bondholder finances, so major powers prevent any fighting to protect creditor interests.
An old prose fragment touts Hosteller's Stomach Bittere as a remedy and preventive for fever and ague rheumatism liver complaints and other infirm conditions. It claims physicians recognize its value and labels opponents as ignorant. It also promotes Hall's Hair Renewer to prevent baldness and keep the scalp healthy.
A Lancaster widow, Mrs Milton Beamsderfer, credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with curing her daughter’s boils after three bottles and marks clearance. Another Roxborough resident, Miss A. BE Fireman, reports rapid improvement from Hood's Sarsaparilla for general weakness and nervousness, plus a note on her father’s stomach catarrh relief.
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