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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1909
Page
7
Constipation relief priced at 25 cents touted by Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills. The ad claims the pills regulate bowels ease indigestion purify blood and clear skin with gentle laxative effects and no griping. Distributed by Atunyon's Remedy Co Philadelphia.
The item describes a choice between harsh laxatives and gentle candy Cascarets for bowel relief. It praises Cascarets as milder, suggesting increasing doses of the harsher option and noting a large box sold at drugstores for 851 each tablet marked CCC.
An excerpt from Success Magazine argues New York and New York City waste about 50 million dollars annually beyond theft and graft. It compares losses to costs of the Erie Canal and Sweden’s expenditures, and claims Britain would spend this year on old age pensions. The piece laments wasted energy and wages, urging efficiency to fund health and public needs.
A Maine woman from Sillswater recounts long back ache illness and kidney issues cured by Dean's Kidney Pills. She says symptoms including fainting and disordered secretions disappeared and she has been well since 1899. Sold by retailers at 40 cents a box Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY
Thomas Ledcott, 49, inmate at Stratford branch of Poplar Union, was charged at West Ham magistrates with damaging blankets by removing wool. A guard reported 345 blankets stripped over five days. Pink wool and knitted items tied to Ledcott linked him to the theft. He denied stripping all blankets and received two months.
The piece surveys global topics from the French Aerial League’s ten thousand members to the vast Amazon and wind-driven ocean swells. It notes railway timetables in Kiel schools, women’s prayer practices, and desert sand waves marching in wind formed, ghostlike progress across Winnipeg prairies.
Mina Gina Krog, Norway's leading delegate to the National Council of Women meeting in Toronto, recalls that municipal suffrage has existed for nine years and full voting rights loom next fall. She notes married women vote on their husbands taxed income, unmarried women on their parents, and that Norwegian women have served on juries for years.
A compact note explains wind driven waves form where cyclone winds meet forward motion. It describes wind blowing along the wave crests, sustaining the low pressure, and building steep waves in water and sand. It notes a rough relation: wave height correlates with wind speed, citing 52 miles per hour as a reference point.
A collage of classroom and household vignettes follows a teacher and children as they discuss grammar and slang. Margie and Little Fred react to lessons about growth and Darwin while other characters recall colloquial quips and antebellum portraits.
A rambling column mocks the shaving fashion among youths and adults on the eastern sea coast. It laments the decline from old whiskers to smooth faces and jokes about barbers, razors, and vanity while critiquing contemporary tastes and urban life.
Well painted homes command higher selling and occupying value due to aesthetic appeal. National Lead Company promotes pure white lead paint with Dutch Boy trademark and offers free Houseowners Painting Outfit No. 49 including color schemes, specifications, and a paint adulteration detector to requesters in New York City. Wind motors in Denmark gain popularity as electric power generators.
Mrs Hare of 1 Beauty Street South Shields recalls a frying pan incident that scorched one side of her baby face. She used Guth cure ointment from Potter Drug and Chem Co and says the child recovered with no scar. The report notes Guth cure’s Boston backing and mentions rail improvements in Wales.
An essay excerpt notes that difficulty in language lies more in pronunciation than spelling, with examples from English French and German. It parallels how readers may understand written words yet struggle with spoken form and discusses phonetic contrasts and learning outcomes. The piece ends by urging clarity, criticizing garbled publication of an incident.
A plain-looking woman is teased when her friend’s child calls another girl homely. The mother scolds lightly, saying it isn’t polite, and the child pretends it was a joke. The mother reframes to praise the other girl’s attractiveness.
Several thousand alien mothers gathered at the gates of a public school on Beary and Gouverneur streets. Sixty boys formed a police-like force inside, guarding the yard and guiding hysterical women. In ten minutes order returned as mothers were allowed to view their children at work.
The opening in October will grant thousands 160 acre plots in Standing Rock and Cheyenne River in South Dakota and North Dakota. Registration runs Oct 4 to 23 with a drawing in Aberdeen on Oct 26. Includes a Pacific Coast line trip offer and notes on regional rail connections and promotional folders.
A Willimantic woman testifies after five years of female health troubles including backache dizziness and nervous prostration that Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound restored her health. The ad touts the remedy’s safety and decades of use for displacement inflammation ulceration and related symptoms.
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