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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1892
Page
7
The piece opens with an advertisement praising Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe remedy for female nervous complaints and functional disorders. It shifts to a Southern duel anecdote where Captain W declines unequal combat after realizing his opponent has a wife and six children, turning the confrontation into a lasting friendship.
A dining party member boasts memory for Hamlet and Longfellow and dates but cannot answer basic personal facts. The others quiz him on birth day, teeth, letters in his full name, presidents, and states, showing gaps between memory feats and simple data.
The Boston Globe recounts Eugene McAuliffe of Providence racing from Cuba by steamer to reach Boston in time to vote, then hurrying to Providence and casting his ballot at the last moment as others reportedly missed the chance. The tale ends with a proverb about silence and earned crow.
In a rural Nebraska tale a son explains how riding a political hobby can propel a man from farmer to legislator to congress. The aged Van Wyke Marsh Elder and Willie Leese are cited as examples of how a strong hobby launches public life and shifts power through railroads and monopolies.
The railroad is described as the great modern conqueror and civilizer. It portrays the shift from invasions of old to reclamation by civilized nations using locomotives as the weapon. It suggests railways banish barbarism and may become as routine in Asia and Africa as in the United States or Mexico.
A New York writer recalls a crowded downtown elevator ride where passengers jostled and complained as the car jerked upward. Amid humorous banter about typhus ward lore, the group escapes on the seventh floor after a tense scramble. The piece pivots to a health ad urging Isaacs’s Sarsaparilla to combat fatigue and “That Tired Feeling.”
A New Yorker asks about aldermen called city fathers and contemplates the difference. The elder explains that sons run in debt while fathers pay, but city fathers incur debts that their sons and grandsons must repay.
A 38 inch display ad in this week’s paper shows every week a unique word except one. The Dr. Carter Medicine Co. uses a Crescent mark on all products and publications. Find the word, then expect a book and lithographs of samples in return.
Self supporting women are common in many lands. Germany and England each claim five million such women. France Austria and Italy have half that number. The era of women living off others is over. occupations for mind and hands are a law of health and happiness.
The text extols Syrup of Figs asserting the true laxative principle is permanently beneficial while cheap extracts are harmful. It notes production by the California Pig Syrup Company and mentions the world’s longest stone bridge over an arm of the China sea with five miles length and 300 arches.
An advertisement invites dropsy sufferers to consult Dr HW Green and Sons with offers that cost nothing to try. The item notes delivery wagons powered by electricity are among London’s newest vehicles after a green grocer showcased the concept.
A compendium of product pitches and medical claims. Castoria is invoked across generations from infancy to adulthood. Various remedies are advertised including Hall's Catarrh Cure and Dr Kings nerve restorers with testimonials and prices.
An English style advertisement extols Hoatetter’s Stomach Bitters as a universal tonic that builds masculine vigor and steady health. It claims improved digestion sleep nerves and bodily functions, touts malaria rheumatism biliousness kidney issues and grippe relief, and mentions related notes on travel and public notices, with other items interleaved.
A Bainbridge Ga correspondent reports Richard Mack of Miller County released his cow to pasture. While drinking at a creek the cow was seized by a loggerhead turtle and pulled underwater until she died.
In Holt County a neighbor named John Gilbert was severely ill with failing liver and kidneys. After trying August Flower, his health dramatically improved, astonishing his family and friends.
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