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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1906
Page
3
A Philadelphia Daily Press excerpt shows a rejected suitor asking if there is hope. The girl replies there is hope for him but notes many other girls in the world who are just as appealing.
Advertisement promises a guaranteed cure for piles itching bleeding protruding symptoms. Claims druggists will refund if payment fails to cure within vitality days. Price listed as 30 cents.
A fragmentary courtroom scene recalls a case of a soldier accused of an elderly man’s harm. A bystander, calling out to Joby, criticizes his fighting nature and asks why a soldier cannot stay out of trouble. The youth responds that he once fought a soldier who nearly killed him.
A 19th century style sales blurb extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy for women's backache menstrual and other female troubles. Testimonials from Mrs Holmes and Mrs Cotrell claim relief from backache headaches and irregular periods. The ad urges women to avoid substitutes and trust the remedy.
A health appeal invites women to write to Mrs Pinkham for guidance on feminine symptoms. It states she has counseled openly for twenty five years and her advice and medicine have helped many women seeking relief. Address in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Johann Hoch, a German-born bigamist and poisoner, was hanged in Chicago on a Friday after a long fight for clemency and a possible new trial. Crowds surrounded the jail as Hoch awaited execution, with supporters seeking delay via a petition arguing due process issues under the Fourteenth Amendment. Hoch’s life story includes multiple marriages across the United States and a pattern of fraud and murder allegations leading to his conviction for Marie Walcker-Hoch’s death.
Senate and House action centers on pure food legislation and urgent deficiency appropriations. Senators hear petitions from California and Colorado women seeking Reed Smoot’s ouster and discuss railway rates and census studies. House passes bills on gambling in territories and barge coal lands, while noting funeral observances for Representative Custer.
Five colleges and the library signified willingness to co operate in founding a Brooklyn university with provisional incorporation to be made. Fire drives dozens from a street in night clothes near 347 Ryerson Street. Four families saved by fire crews.
A Galena Missouri resident, Davis, claims thirty seven years of ill health improved after twelve bottles of Peruna. He urges others to write to Dr Rahiman for free advice and mentions Dr Wartman of The Hartmen Sanitarturh.
Pearl fisheries in the Red Sea at the Lohia islands form a sizable local industry with limited European or American exports. Pearls are highly valued in India and Arabia, with native women often adorned in rings, earrings, nose rings, or toe rings.
In a brief exchange, one actress asks if you had diamonds stolen, another denies. The first hints at a past. The second questions the other’s motives as they discuss a scandal involving prominent citizens and an automobile.
A brief comic note from Philadelphia Press recounts a passerby claiming the weather man forecast rain but seeing sunshine. The speaker says he carried an umbrella and used it to swat the weather man when confronted on the street.
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