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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1893
Page
7
This excerpt extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as an invigorant that strengthens health and delays decay. It claims the tonic helps with constipation, dyspepsia, chills, fever, nervousness, rheumatism, weak blood, and general weakness, benefiting the aged and convalescents.
The histories and poems of Elizabeth I describe her as not angelic with a red hair and a red temper. Accounts claim she drank heavily at times and swore loudly, and she allegedly struck, kicked, and punched her maids and attendants.
An agent from Johnson & Co Richmond Va urges young men to follow instructions for employment, claiming success. The piece previews telephones in the US and promotes N K Brown's Essence Jamaica Ginger as a stimulant for 25 cents.
J D Cox of Allegheny Pa reports months of dyspepsia with fullness after meals and sickness. After two weeks on August Flower his symptoms vanished and he gained twenty pounds. He had worked seven years for Druggist Thomas McHenry in Allegheny City.
KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many who live better than others attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles in Syrup of Figs. It cleanses the system, dispels colds headaches and fevers and cures constipation without weakening the kidneys liver or bowels. Available in 50c and 1 bottles from druggists. Manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
A Boston Traveller account visits the Bon Marche detailing Boucicaut’s store as a model of worker welfare. It describes housing for clerks, free educational programs, concerts, separate dining rooms, extensive kitchen operations, employee meals, living quarters, and generous profit sharing plus benefits like a free physician and infirmary with subsumed costs.
A writer notes the loneliness of the Pacific crossing citing the City of Peking voyage and a 1850 San Francisco to Panama trip. The narrator contrasts calms at sea with imagined Noahs ark boredom, urging readers to endure journeys to learn true loneliness and comfort.
The article explains that children have twenty temporary teeth with germs in the jaw before birth and that eruption begins around six to seven months. It stresses early care for both temporary and permanent teeth, urges teaching brushing, and recommends cleaning the mouth after meals with tepid water and a suitable tooth-pick to remove food particles.
English travelers collect curious foreign facts about America and its customs. Americans sweeten tea with rock candy and Boston society hosts write a capital D while moving to swing the opposite foot. Prizes are offered for the feat. Servants outside large cities enjoy family privileges, and mistresses sometimes must tend the street door when hiring a maid of all work.
A reader glossary explains bear and bull actors, cornering, short selling, and margin trading. It describes how bears seek price declines, bulls push prices up, and cornering forces control. It notes margin requirements and the risk of losing the margin if prices move. It also covers terms like put and call in options trading and how they affect obligations between brokers and clients.
The article notes corn husks can be transformed into paper by boiling in caustic soda and pressing out gluten to yield fibre. It highlights a potential fortune in corn stalk fibre. It also reports Zurich women securing abolition of the Thierbuch, a yearly publication revealing ages occupations and ancestors, now valuable to collectors.
The Emperor of Germany has an imperial railway train of twelve carriages with a drawing-room nursery reception room and kitchen. Marble statuary Gobelin tapestry and other touches add to its elegance. It has been built over three years at a cost of £90 000. A man awaiting an appointment cited a saying about how long it takes for man to know another.
An 19th century account portrays Nuremberg’s Steel Maiden as a horrific medieval torture engine kept in the town hall. Varying spikes pierce through figures bound inside as doors close slowly to prolong agony, with victims sometimes dying before the heart. Bodies were processed in a grinding machine and dumped into the river.
The article details how scissors are forged from bar steel heated to redness. Blades and shanks are shaped and drilled, the bow punched, rivet hole formed, and parts filed, ground, tested, hardened, tempered, and polished. It notes scissors grind less sharp than knives and tend to crush edges when cutting.
The Sioux City & Northern Railroad and Pacific Short Line announce sale of tickets at greatly reduced rates for thirty days starting Tuesday August 1. Tickets land passengers at Englewood at World’s Fair gates with no extra charge. For details contact ticket office or W. B. McNiven, Gen. Pass. Agt., Sioux City Iowa.
During Will iam J Osborne's funeral in Brooklyn Rev Darlington led services. Six people including a widow and a 12 year old fainted or cried as commotion rose with interruptions and prayers heard among the crowd. The weeping widow and her son had already fainted before reaching the church.
The German sovereigns visit to Rome cost King Humbert over 2 100 000 francs. The Pompeii breakfast cost 1 0 000 francs and 0 000 francs were spent fitting apartments for the imperial visitors.
A collage of items notes Hall's Catarrh Cure reward claim and doctor endorsement, German marriage rate rise after wars, Hiram C Wheeler sells imported stallions in Sac County, a Mecklen burg debtor mortgaged by his wife, eye-water from Dr Tsune Thompson, Australia’s 1236 mile fence to keep rabbits out, ReEcHAM 8 PILLS for headaches and digestion, and a quip about the scorpion abstaining from whisky.
A Smithville Georgia brass band faces disruption when a southbound train engine halt near the Academy of Moro, prompting a flagman to halt the band while the engine regroups. The village paper quips a brass band should be left to rust rather than hinder transit while noting local barber and haircare tips.
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