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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1892
Page
2
An 19th century remedy ad touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as purifying blood and rejuvenating the body after influenza pneumonia fevers and wasting diseases. It claims to restore health vigor and organ function, with a money back guarantee if it does not benefit or cure. Also advertises Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy offering a $500 reward for an unimpeachable cure of catarrh.
A collage of brief items: dynamite investment in the United States, State flower debates for Washington, Berlin houses lit with luminous numbers, a long serving Austrian maid, and casual witticisms on life and fragrances in flowers plus Col. Ingersoll’s Heaven quip.
A recent Quebec photo shows twelve Coleman brothers and five sisters, all grown with families, children of a couple both living. The piece ends with a Persian proverb about doing small deeds now to prepare for greater acts later.
A brass band leader at a New York City parade was drenched by a volley of eggs and plaster. A Read ing railway accident was blamed on a telegraph operator. Rev Madison C Peters of Bloomingdale Church argues foreigners must reside fourteen years before naturalization and that citizenship should be sacred and conditional.
The Marvard Medical School faculty approve special instruction in bacteriological diagnosis of cholera germs and urge other schools to follow. They expect advances in cholera treatment, noting widespread room for improvement and potential world benefits from new discoveries.
A long piano match pitted Water bury against a New York woman for a $200 prize. They played seventeen hours until the woman fainted, while audiences wore out. The episode prompts concerns that such matches may spread.
A miscellany of literary reflections on George Sand and her letters contrasts with a macabre gas incident. The piece then surveys Oklahoma land rush prospects, Cherokee Commission land cessions to tribes, and the rush of speculators. railroads and bandit fears frame a broader view of frontier expansion and railway security.
A New York Tribune writer explains how American households can make Devonshire style cream at home. Fresh milk is warmed in a shallow pan without boiling, allowing the cream to rise. The cream is cooled in ice or a cold place, then served at breakfast with oats, berries, jam, or any normal cream dish, and it keeps sweet for two or three days.
The state grange committee in New Hampshire discusses tax questions aimed at easing farmers burden. Proposals include taxing existing real estate and money at interest fairly, exemptions for mortgage interest, savings bank deposits, and a uniform one percent levy. The piece cites Thompson and Carey on fixed property, notes current NH practice, contrasts with Pennsylvania, and warns against double taxation of bank deposits while questioning personal property taxation.
In the Schuyhill coal region land owners receive royalties from 5 to 40 cents per ton, while upper regions yield 40 to 50 cents. Assuming 40 cents as average and annual production of 40,000,000 tons, the yearly royalty amounts to $16,000,000. D. F. Guran.
The article argues dogs express pleasure and discovery by tail signals. It links tail height and movement to hunting packs like fox hounds, noting white tips in mixed color coats and tail wagging intensifies with scent strength. Signals synchronize pack pursuit and indicate moments of life and prey discovery.
An ex-railroad man recalls a fatal chase in Colorado where a runaway box car loaded with iron bore down on a train. The crew and passengers faced certain destruction before the engineer shut off, brakes held, and the box car smashed into a rear coach, sending splinters into a deep chasm.
The British Association will elect a leading physiologist as president at Nottingham next year. Professor John Scott Burdon Sanderson, born December 1823 in Newcastle upon Tyne, studied in Edinburgh and trained in London. He served as medical officer of health for Paddington, investigated cerebrospinal meningitis in North Germany, reported on cattle plague, studied heat effects on miners, and advised on infectious disease hospitals.
The article describes perfectly round stones about walnut size, ivory in color, that move toward each other on smooth surfaces and cluster at a common center forming a budded nest. They are said to be largely composed of magnetic iron ore. The piece ends with a provocative remark about women.
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