19 Mar 1891
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Newspaper
Le Mars Weekly Sun
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1891
Page
1
A garbled digest of global snippets mentions Terex purchases, Melbourne cable rumors, Australian winders, and English weights. It riffs on diplomacy, law, church attitudes, harvests, and odd anecdotes from Europe, Asia, and America, ending with a colonial order mandating trees and vines.
A New Yorker spent £20.09 trying to restore a damaged tooth after a break. The piece notes the impossibility of fully restoring the original tooth and highlights Miss Line Bassey, aged five, as the world’s youngest problem solver in a televised or staged preview. The article mentions a practice and 62 contributors shaping the technique, with a first oral que sacrifice, and references the event being printed in twenty sheets in Kiel, Germany, and America.
In St Petersburg papers Jews are described as growing quickly in Europe with higher birth rates than Baskies. The Swiss statistician notes Hebrew population doubling in thirty years and European growth in UA years. A burglary in Long Island City reveals a jeweler's tin box with small diamonds. Richmond public park workers, Virginian reform movement features, State House walks kept tidy despite short-term labor.
The year 1890 saw 914 steamship trips delivering 99 189 cabin and 675 503 steerage travelers to New York. British arrivals accounted for 64. blocks of trips with 64 971 cabin and 119 679 steerage passengers. The period saw 49 births and 3 deaths on the route.
A new railway linking the Argentine Republic with Chile is under construction passing through the Andes. Ten miles of tunnels will be bored by electric drills using power from the Junculillo River cataract, which drives 1,000 horsepower engines. Earth and rock excavated will be washed away by river water. Boring has started at twenty points along the route, claimed to cost less than half the expense of traditional methods.
A Hancock Minnesota husband finds his wife suddenly claiming to be Margaret Hill of Philadelphia after a spontaneous hypnosis episode. She insists she is fifty six though she is twenty four, remaining sane in other matters. Three weeks later she regains normal mind then reverts to the alter ego a week later.
Readable portions reveal a poetic soliloquy with mythic imagery and references to memory dream and longing. The text features names and symbolic phrases such as CeCe Ey ELL, Gear Erin Cyptus, Galy, Brin, and Aspeseus, with scattered lines about fear love and glory.
A distressed prisoner writes of confinement in a silent hall, his longing for a knife to cut chains and panels. He discovers he is Rev Edwin C Stiles, a minister, and details escape attempts, a lover Constance, a brother Reginald, and a perilous journey toward freedom and faith before dying in the cave.
W W Story notes in Conversations in a Studio that the conventional clawhammer coat traces to the French Revolution. The original garment featured long skirts, lace sleeves, and colored facings, evolving through reductions to the swallowtail dress coat with a piled collar and vanishing colors, ultimately yielding the modern formal coat.
Hezekiah Plowshare requests Cashem the cashier send $500 to his son in Paris. He tells of Cashem’s painter son Titian rising in art, painting the hull of Paris and planning Rome, pride in his boy remarking on his talent and future.
A brief quotation urges readers to awaken imaginative power in the soul to pursue beauty and the highest life, extending aspirations beyond familiar bounds.
An 1900s New York World interview scorns patent medicines sold by relatio firms. It argues patent remedy makers appeal to laypeople with claims of superior knowledge and cheaper cures, contrasting with ordinary physicians and noting dangers and dubious guarantees. It mentions St Jacobs Oil as a touted cure and cites a fictional dialogue about railway passengers and a Covington man welding aluminum with glass to create flexible glass.
Taken away sick headache bilious headache dizziness constipation indigestion bilious attacks and all derangements of the liver stomach and bowels. The smallest pills do the business. They cleanse and renovate the system mildly and gently. Sugar coated easy to take in vials hermetically sealed fresh and reliable. A pocket remedy for laxative or cathartic use. guaranteed satisfaction or money back through druggists.
The advertisement touts Shiloh s Cure as a peerless cough remedy with a positive guarantee. It claims free sample bottles for every household in the United States and Canada to combat coughs sore throats bronchitis croup and whooping cough. It also promotes Shiloh s Porous Plaster for back or lung pain at 25 cents.
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