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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1892
Page
3
An old advertisement promotes self reliance with the motto Paddle your own canoe. It then touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a universal blood purifier and lung throat tonic, claiming year round usefulness and a money back guarantee if no benefit. It lists skin and scrofulous ailments treated and frames the product as cheaper than sarsaparilla pills.
A long report details experiments showing grasshoppers, spiders, cockchafers, and other insects as potential foods and flavors from grasshopper soup to ant lemonade. It also notes the Coventry flying fox themed machine by Shaw & Sons with 17 ft 6 in wings and a flying bat inspired design awaiting full operation.
The New York World profiles Senor Romero, Mexican Minister in Washington. A vigilant, tireless official who keeps hours of sixteen daily, directs a clerical staff, and swiftly corrects false reports affecting Mexico. He is described as shrewd and dignified, with a history of rebuking foreign meddling in U S elections.
A Frenchwoman outlines eye care tips including avoiding rubbing reading with the light behind and resting eyes after two hours. The peanut crop is about 65 percent of last year with prices from 2 to 6 cents at first hands, raising farmer concerns and calls for a national peanut union and supportive measures.
Advertises half fare excursion tickets on the Sioux City and Northern and Great Northern Railways from June ith to 12th and to northern Minnesota and North Dakota points. Details for purchase at Minneapolis and St. Paul offices and Union depots. Additional note on alternate routes offered by the Great Northern.
An old 3 inch display advertisement from The Pr Harter Medicine Co claims a unique word on every issue and offers free book lithographs or samples in return for the word Crescent stamped on their products.
Various brief items from a 19th century paper include a quip on counting from Adam through his heirs, upcoming events in June from Cedar Rapids to Chicago, Turkey's bachelors rule, a mail-order offer, and a report on lightning fatalities and damage in England.
The text outlines the growth of foreign Christian missions, noting their origins in the early colonial period and current annual expenditure around $5,000,000 employing over 2,000 Americans abroad. It also includes various historical ads and notices about cures, products, and a Brooklyn inventor's bold plan to tap Earth's interior for heat.
Describes how skin and eye color reflect liver function and digestion. Promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the remedy for biliousness, headaches, constipation, vertigo, nausea, sour breath, and right side pains. Claims malaria involvement cures and broader benefits for kidney issues and rheumatism.
A man keeps a precise watch for years then falls ill and the watch loses accuracy while idle, proving magnetism disrupts its timekeeping. When the man recovers and resumes wear, the watch regains accuracy. The piece argues magnetism alters a timepiece’s function.
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