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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1895
Page
7
An advertisement claims Dr Rudolph Schuttmann has perfected a remedy for asthma fever phthisis and bronchitis offering free trials to readers. He urges sufferers to send name and address to 314 Rosabel St St Paul Minnesota and note free samples end Sept 15.
An Irish student who once studied at the University of Edinburgh asked a famed Garman flute teacher for lessons. The master quoted two guineas for the first month and one for the second. The student quipped that he would return in the second month, implying a clever reply.
A long promotional note extols Syrup of Figs as a pure, mild laxative that cleanses the system and aids kidneys, liver, and bowels without weakening them. It claims universal medical approval and notes availability in 60c and $1 bottles from druggists, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
The note invites articles on taxation for publication if well written and reasonable. It targets land owners as primary beneficiaries of land value increases from reform. Readers are asked to send views to this office or to 0 Lock Street in Buffalo New York.
Ex Assemblyman Rider argues for taxing land value while exempting improvements to spur farming and city growth. He challenges current taxation as biased toward property owners and contrasts farm land with urban land, urging reform to boost labor and local industry.
The piece surveys Grand Central depot area value based on $4,000 annual ground rent and extreme per square foot worth. It notes a Pittsburgh bicycle tax of fifty cents for riders over fourteen, questioning feasibility and urging free ownership like the printing press.
The article describes Bayswater shops boasting vast depots and a new electricals venture beside a tailor and clothier, plus quirky items like ready made overcoats and a three watt lamp. It also recounts weather prophetess Mrs Campbell in Bergen County and a British Guiana custom linking a newborn’s spirit to the father, with travel cautions.
A passenger train on an Alabama crossroad line delays near a store farmhouse while an aged woman in a sunbonnet with a basket waits for a hen to lay a 12th egg. The conductor explains the pause is in the interest of the hen and market eggs.
In Northern Pennsylvania lumber camps, workers used a rattlesnake bait method to spread venom into calf liver fed to rats. A forked stick held the snake, which was teased to bite meat repeatedly, contaminating the liver and killing eighteen rats in a single night in Potter County.
A newspaper ad urges readers that constipation causes over half of world sickness, especially among women, and can be prevented. It promotes a book available free at druggists or by writing H F Allen Co, New York, offering Pills at two prices and a large bore claim.
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