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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1905
Page
3
A collage of odd quotes and product pitches from early 20th century ads. Mentions Hamlet, Cuticura remedies, and a naval secretary, with references to dental and dermatological cures and a variety of vocal snippets. The piece blends humor with consumer claims and historical figure mentions.
Poem from Locomotive Engineers' Journal depicting a mother with children in a cottage setting. It evokes family work, childcare, neighbors, and nightly prayers with lilting rural imagery and sentiment.
In a rural tale a red faced suitor Mr Migg seeks help to write a marriage letter for Martha Mayne but confusion follows when the writer swaps Martha with Martha Cowperthwaite. The plan collapses as a misaddressed envelope leads to an unintended engagement and a comic reckoning with consequences.
A narrator contends with guilt and secrecy as plans hinge on Martha Mayne and a return home. Mr Migg wavers between truth and deception while a ball and family tensions rise, and a clumsy door inquiry about occupants reveals strained domestic life.
A Worcestershire defendant fined 10 shillings for driving without a light insists on paying in copper saying its a rotten affair. He cites Oxford undergraduates fined with five shillings and mocks the proctor by offering copper pennies each morning at nine until the sum is paid.
Fifteen long term Indian inmates at McNeil's Island penitentiary Puget Sound, twelve under three years, are in early stages of consumption and none expected to live more than a year. All sentenced ten to twenty years. Wanlen O P Vialligan cites hereditary tuberculosis as the cause in dissension over the situation.
The piece notes the picturesque Irish scene with thatched cottages painted in pink blue or yellow set among village gardens. It highlights Gaelic villages in the west and Donegal preserving language and customs. Women in Connaught wear hooded cloaks and scarlet skirts amid gray rocks and bogs.
Kansas City woman Mrs. Mary Cogin describes years of weakness and dropsy until using Doan's Kidney Pills. She credits the remedy with her recovery and a healthy baby afterward. Sold by dealers at 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y.
Jaggsby boasts Texas as home to large snakes. He recalls a feet long green and yellow specimen compared to a whisky barrel. Wagesby retorts that sightings may be exaggerated about the barrel before the snake.
Magazine editors attack patent medicines but overlook that about 53 percent of Americans live in rural areas far from physicians and drugstores. Ready prepared family remedies remain essential for home use in emergencies, making them as simple as sugar and coffee.
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