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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1898
Page
3
The vice president of Red Grass American branch Mrs. J. Ellen Foster recalls an amusing episode about Our Teddy in Santiago. A moving request for delicacies prompts promises of a future carload of dried apples for the riders, and a joke exchange with Colonel Roosevelt about his desire for the fruit.
The Post Office Department employs 822 clerks including 117 trotten in its dead letter division where about 125 women work. Daily 20,000 undelivered letters arrive with clerks opening 250 letters each day and recording each tally. Checks and money are specially handled and may be returned or filed for four years. A museum displays a washboard to a skeleton among items recovered from the mails.
The American Tobacco Co. supplied free tobacco to soldiers and sailors since the war began, distributing over one hundred thousand pounds of tobacco and buying fifty thousand wooden pipes at a cost of fifty to sixty thousand dollars. Headquarters were established in camps and hospitals across the United States, with tobacco for every man and sailors aboard thirty ships. A vegetarian colony near Oranportburg is growing, with forty seven households, planting 35,000 fruit trees and 16,090 berry bushes, plus a hedge of something nuts.
A human bone and teeth along with broken glass and crockery were found in a swamp near Hammo lb bellows boat docks. Two men, Jones and Aquila, were there to collect timber. A comparable find occurred at the same site eight years ago.
A rambling sermon echoes Mr. Dooley on rulers and anarchists. The speaker waxes about kings born to rule, the burden of leadership, and the perception that no man can escape duty once seated on a throne. He riffs through political chaos, paternal figures, and the idea that a ruler is judged by action, not title.
An amalgam of disjointed notes mentions a telegraph operator in Peavenwarth at the outbreak of war, General Bhatret in San Francisco, General Mizner's death in Washington, and Pretoria acquittal of a slander charge involving Queen Victoria. References to the University of California leadership and a literary work hint at broader upheaval and cultural concerns of the period.
A Cincinnati in England recounts a host using a ring concealed key to unlock gates and doors. The master key slides under the ring’s seal and opens every door in the house, while department keys restrict access for servants. The host keeps sole access to the master key.
A humorous exchange shows a beggar pleading for five pennies for his four children. The responding man replies he has all the children he needs, in a brisk, humorous newspaper tone.
John Young of Le Roy, 72, fell from a 22 foot scaffold while placing weather boards on a barn. He suffered bruising to the face and body and was treated for a week under a doctor’s care. The incident led to a claim that a stroke explained his condition, with his recovery attributed to Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People and a granddaughter’s aid.
A cryptic line contrasts Thrusy of the day with routines that grow through repetition and reflection, suggesting pleasures are strengthened by ongoing engagement and contemplation.
A scattered set of 19th century notes mentions medical cures and remedies. Names include Apan Mose of Williamsport Pa and references to cures for consumption and fits. The text references tropical climate facts and a claim about a medicine called Pise's Cure, with unrelated aphorisms and personal signatures.
A New York Tribe report describes a dark brown basalt mountain along the Columbia River nearly two thousand feet high and six to eight miles long. Indigenous lore says it would move to form a lake from the Cascades to the Dalles, a claim echoed by geologists who cite river erosion under soft sandstone foundations causing the structure to appear to move downstream.
The piece argues socialism grows from world armies enlisting men who become discontented. It also claims Hostetter's Stomach Bitters strengthens a stronger race and cures castivaness dyspepsia fever urine and nervous troubles urging readers to try one bottle.
A medieval custom persists in Austrian mountain districts where buried bones are exhumed after eight to ten years to make room. Relatives are notified to attend the cleaning and reburial in a bonehouse where skulls are often painted or marked with the dead’s name.
A mother asks about housekeeping progress and the wife replies with a humorous misstatement about having almost gotten 60 tasks done to suit the hired girl. The exchange captures a light domestic moment reported in the Washington Star.
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