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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1897
Page
3
William E Mateals of Nites Michigan is famed as a fearless hunter who has spent years in the forest areas where game abounds. He recalls a menacing wild moose incident that left him shaken and highlights his long-standing adventures with his quail trap and hunting companions.
A hunter returns to a trap and finds seventeen wild geese entangled. A massive gander attacks Metcalf, injuring him with wings, beak, and claws. He fights back with a club, disables the bird, and carries the geese home in triumph. The motive for the gander’s assault remains unclear.
A Berlin Anthropologies Society showcase features a four year old prodigy born of a butcher, who at age two reads unaided and recites emperor dates and battles. He can discuss printed material but struggles with writing drawing music or piano. The child is physically sound though not robust.
A household letter explains making soap from wood ashes. It details building a dripping frame, filling a barrel with ashes, adding water, and boiling with grease until thick. It notes soft soap when rendered and mentions adding pine rosin, then storing in a barrel.
The text outlines simple hacks for hanging cloth garments with hooks and wires, plus home recipes and household remedies. It includes tips on potato and onion dishes, gravy tweaks, and routine care such as ironing guidance and toothache relief. It ends with an ad pitch for St Jacob’s Oil as a cure-all for rheumatism.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Allious of Coste and a Gastaret with a Whale Cure FurraMteed. Details are unclear and no full events or outcomes are readable.
The Bulletin d Apiculture notes that holes can be drilled easily in glass using an ordinary drill moistened with a mix of twenty five parts oxalic acid and twelve parts turpentine. The passage also contains a jumble of 19th century ads and quack cures unrelated to glass drilling.
An 19th century plea describes hysteria linked to womb trouble and promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the cure. The piece cites a testimonial from Mars. Levi F. Pfatr praising relief and urges readers to write for advice.
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