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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1903
Page
14
Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is presented as a life sustaining product that boosts appetite, eases food digestion, and restores flesh and health. The ad claims it brightens life during hard work and offers free samples, with the product sold by Scott & Bowne in New York and available from druggists.
Partial timetable shows westbound and eastbound passenger and freight trains with local and fast services. Notes include connections with El Paso fast trains, Chicago arrivals, and listed origins like Burlington Rockford and St. Louis Express alongside Riverside and Muscatine routes.
A Mad Dog bite prompts a native market cure in Tunis where a witch doctor and male relatives attack a woman and drive her to drown herself. The husband later disappears and bodies are found in a well, suggesting the group killed both. The piece also recalls Billington’s Sea near Plymouth, Massachusetts, as reported by S. M. Crothers in Atlantic.
The article traces ancient origins of squaring the circle with Hippocrates of Chios and notes the legend of a derived crescent area. It then discusses the term mastiff, offering theories on its linguistic roots from Italian French and German sources and its link to a large, well-fed dog.
An excerpt reflects Lincoln’s famous duel with Douglas through a Swett anecdote about strategy. The dialogue features Swett urging lincoln to beat Douglas for the Senate or gain the presidency, with Lincoln replying he will let Douglas stumble himself. The piece blends historical flair with humorous voices and railroad crash quips.
A fragment from the Atchison Globe discusses social manners and domestic plans. It mentions Miss De Style claiming a suitor intends to keep her and Miss Gunbustard noting subtle pressuring behavior. The text questions healthful meals when cross and asks wives if their husbands would starve.
A collage of curiosities including misdated epic claims about Orlando Furioso and Charlemagne, notes on camel sensitivity to humidity in arid regions, a pine nut anecdote from Arizona forests via Meds Plant Trees, a tale of Colonel Ochiltree and Senator Hearst, and a streetcar child misidentifying beads as beans, all presented in old newspaper fashion.
In a Cincinnati scene a humorous peddler touts a lithe household instrument that combines screwdriver buttonhook can opener latchkey lamp cleaner letter opener paper cutter pipe oxer and penknife. The house keeper questions its use while a neighbor exchange adds a note of local banter about a bonfire and an insurance agent with a business card.
A reflective exchange notes how love reveals new perceptions in a man and how time may uncover future possibilities. The dialogue contrasts present wonder with later understanding in a wistful, period voice.
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