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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1893
Page
7
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a guaranteed remedy for weak or ailing women. It claims to build up overworked, delicate patients, regulate functions, improve digestion, enrich the blood, ease aches, and restore health, with money-back guarantee if not beneficial.
Millionaire Philip D. Armour presents Chicago with a gift exceeding $1.5 million. A five story building on Armour avenue costs over $100,000 and will open September 1, 1893. The institute aims to rival Drexel and Pratt, with $1.4 million annual support and a full apparatus and library. A Board of Directors will oversee the project and funds.
The first floor houses a sixty foot square library with woodworking and reception rooms and the president’s suite. The second floor contains chemical and physical laboratories and lecture rooms plus electrical rooms. The third floor is for drawing, mechanical and architectural studies and commerce. The fourth floor focuses on domestic sciences with cooking, dressmaking, millinery and related classes. A gymnasium and technical museum occupy the fifth floor ends, connected by dressing rooms and marble hat rooms.
In Colorado Springs horses are seen wearing protective veils to guard their eyes from flies. Unusual hats and umbrellas accompany the gear, with nets on hoops creating a droll, dandyish look. Flies, from tiny to large bluebottles, plague horses and veils are deemed a necessity for safety and comfort.
A compact set of aphorisms contrasts contentment with dissatisfaction and mocks social roles. It notes that sentiment can distort judgment, and writers often savor their own work. The piece ends with a witty call to religious duty and neighborly love.
It is estimated that affluent Americans spend about 125 million dollars yearly to support charitable institutions, while at least 500 million dollars are invested in permanent buildings that care for the needy.
A Philadelphia candidate complains that campaign lies ruined his ability to obtain credit from his tailor, stating the fabric of trust has been torn and he cannot secure needed clothing services.
A traveling observer recalls a visit to Japan where a dentist removes a tooth using thumb and forefinger, no forceps. A 19 year old apprentice pulls wooden pegs with similar technique to train for real extractions, illustrating traditional methods alongside a plan to use pigeons for military messaging in Rome. The snippet ends noting a petrified-root cottonwood near Atchison Kansas.
A farmer refuses to pay the grocer the price of a ten pound turkey for a seven pound bird. The Royal Baking Powder is advertised as 27 percent stronger than rivals. Consumers are warned to avoid alum and harmful substitutes and to seek lower prices if forced to buy them.
An old rural remedy from New England farms offers two simple cures for cuts and burns. Fresh egg white film provides a skin like covering that protects the wound and speeds skin growth. Shellac varnish, applied to the wound, dries to form an invisible seal that protects and aids healing.
A poultry observer claims to determine an egg's future hen or rooster by shell shape. He describes smooth or wrinkled ends as signs of embryo sex, noting wrinkles imply a rooster and a smooth end a protoplastic hen. The remark reflects long experience with egg habits.
A Baltimore Special Agent touts Salvation Oil as curing a severe lumbago after two applications. The note is followed by curious items including a Liberty Maine man with an enormous beard, a Boston Globe weight loss page, a Chicago library request, and a steam plow test near Garden City Kansas claiming fifty acres per day with a two-man crew.
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