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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1893
Page
7
A rickety patchwork of verse and political musings laments muzzling lawmakers and skewers campaign etiquette. The piece parades fevers, moral claims, and Hustetter’s Stomach Hitters as cures, railing at official prattle while praising a vegetable tonic and warning of malarial ills.
A foreign invention converts waste paper into kegs barrels and vessels with solid heads. The machinery used allows mass production of durable water and damp proof barrels for powder, meeting large demand in the shape of kegs and barrels.
The ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment and offers $100 to anyone who proves it fails. It asserts internal, blood and mucous action and urges readers to request testimonials from F J Cheney & Co., Toledo. Also notes a Cornwall man fined $50 for thrashing a man, then locals gifted him a diamond scarf pin and $150.
The pleasant effect and safety of the California Fig Syrup Laxative are praised for Indies use under all conditions. It is advertised as the true genuine article, with the company name printed near the bottom of the package.
A Poland China hog on Jule Ganter’s Texas ranch near Gainesville is said to be among the world’s largest, weighing 1,420 pounds, standing 3 feet 4 inches high and 7 feet 2 inches long. N. KE. Brown's Essence Jamaica Ginger touted for indigestion, priced 25 cents.
A vintage appeal for women to use Doctor Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a tonic to build up strength and regulate the system. It targets young girls, those experiencing life changes, nursing mothers, and any woman who is run-down, promising relief from bearing-down sensations, periodical pains, and other female complaints with a money-back guarantee if no benefit is seen.
A sensible cookbook promises best Brown Bread meat stews fish hash plain cake apple pie baked beans doughnuts and puddings from odds and ends. It urges economy and good table planning and touts Kickapoo Sagwa as a grand remedy for appetite and health. Send a two cent stamp to New Haven Conn to receive the free book.
A reflective meditation on the aging Liberty Bell cast at Philadelphia in 1753, its role in the 1776 independence narrative, the readerly tableau of the bell keeper and the flaxen-haired boy, and the bell’s journey to Allentown and New Orleans before resting in the Pennsylvania State building. The piece links national birth, memory, and the bell’s enduring echo across nations. It also weaves in brief vignettes about homelessness in London and a California justice of the peace jurisdiction anecdote for contrast.
A learned doctor, interviewed by a homely couple from a distant parish, balks their matchmaking ploy. They press him to help their son and his love, persistently calling him Dr Brimstone. He ends the encounter with a witty denial, saying he does not make matches.
A fragment presents a reflective line about a girl wrestling with guilt and emotion, contrasting common novel tropes. It hints at inner conflict and the urge to reveal or repress feelings without foregrounding a clear narrative or context.
The Tel-el-Amarna tablets discovered in 1887 along the Nile reveal 178 letters from Palestine dated about 1440 B C. They show Egyptian garrisons withdrawing under pressure from northern and southern foes and identify several biblical names, including Jabin and Sisera, with topographic value noted for the Pharaonic era.
A jeans suited passenger asks about business. The other replies he writes short stories for any publication that accepts them. The conversation labels him an odd job man. A brother in tinware mending is mentioned as having a similar flexible trade.
The Mexican military comprises infantry 17,3807, engineers 655, artillery 1,604, cavalry 5,484, rural guards 1,950, gendarmerie 241, totaling over 3,000 officers. Navy includes two unarmored gun vessels of 430 gons and 600 hp each with 20-pounders, a training ship 1,221 tons armed with four 72 guns, two 57 mm guns, two 32 mm guns, and three small gunboats.
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