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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1892
Page
7
The advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a small sugar coated remedy. It promises permanent cure of constipation indigestion bilious attacks headaches and liver stomach and bowel disorders with a money back guarantee.
Makers promise to pay $500 cash if their Catarrh remedy fails to cure any case. Also ad claims to compare other remedies and help readers decide. Costs listed as 50 cents. Local paper style promotion from era.
Advice on not overtelling ailments and a promotion for Laxative Gus Drops by Sylvan Remedy Co. The ad claims the gum drops cure indigestion and constipation with a nightly dose, listing small and large sizes and prices 10c and 25c respectively. The brand is tied to Peoria Illinois.
Consular reports show tropical towns like Colon Panama reject ice and refrigerators due to poverty and cultural habits. Ice is costly and scarce, with limited use in Cuba Brazil and Africa. Despite some shipments, tropical demand remains weak as artificial ice grows.
A Toledo crowd watched George Drouilliard, a fireman aboard Col. Reynolds's yacht Sigma, climb the 177 foot Finlay Place flagstaff to thread a new rope through the top pulley. After slow progress and a tense final stretch, he stood atop the six inch at base to pull the rope through, amid cheers from about 1500 spectators.
The census bureau reports on June 1 1890 that 7351 prisoners are charged with homicide in the United States 6958 men and 393 women 4425 whites and 2926 negroes The New Orleans Picayune calls the data remarkable noting blacks are 7 to 54 of the population yet 27 to 44 of the manslayers.
The article compares fecundity across species. Silk-worms lay 1,000 to 2,000 eggs, wasps about 3,000, ants 3,000 to 5,000, while queen bees may reach 40,000 to 50,000 per season. White ants, or Termes latalis, lay up to 86,400 eggs in a day and about 2,500,000 eggs per lunar month-long laying season, far surpassing other creatures.
In Pennsylvania mountain districts a white farm cat stalked tame wrens nesting under an eaves. After the farmer scolded the cat, it avoided harming the weak fledgling, recalling a lesson from the nest. The wrens’ human household observed the wary cat back off when the moment came.
The readable line offers a quip about pleasures lasting a minute and walking uphill for a good time, suggesting a humorous or editorial aside about winter ease versus effort, with a playful coined phrase “steen hill.”
A Portland scene caused citywide alarm when a man with a bloodied face fled a cigar store pursued by another wielding a revolver. The pursuer claimed the victim snatched a last cigar, then shot him. A doctor’s false fatal-witnessing trick exposed the hoax as a sales stunt.
An advertisement warns against internal remedies for labor and menstrual issues, claiming they are unsafe and useless. It urges external treatment to ease childbirth and touts Mother's Friend by Bradfield Reg. Co. as the effective option available through druggists.
A Friendship Georgia resident reports her turkey hen has hatched ten turkeys and one possum, the latter larger than a rat and nesting contentedly among the turkey chicks after the hen incubated twelve eggs.
The column lists various remedies and tonics including Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh, Comet wine superstition notes, sponsors like Pige's Honey and Thompson's Eye Water, and a trivia line about the Dunn surname from Henry VII era. It mixes product pitches with brief anecdotes and historical notes.
An old Irish woman, angered at a funeral she expected to attend passing her home, retorts that perhaps there will be a funeral at her house soon and she will see who will be invited. The anecdote caps with a sly claim about retaliation for slights.
An ad style passage extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for the debilitated and nervous, claiming strength to digest sleep and eat well, and noting cures for malaria, bilious, rheumatic and kidney ailments. A vignette follows about Ned six, whose prized pet is a tall red-chinned rooster accompanying him to school. Also mentions Genial J. Q. Paddock, Elliott's College alumnus, now manager for Armour Packing Co in Wilmington, NC.
Dr Lagneau submits to the French Academy an estimate of population losses 1791 1890 totaling 5 165 000 for the century an average 61 650 annually. Napoleon era 1 500 000 killed in battle plus as many died of disease Crimean War 10 000 killed in action 86 560 died in hospitals Franco German war 1 309 000 sacrificed. Population 36 000 000.
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