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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1905
Page
6
An article cites indigestion in women and presents Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a uterine tonic that restores digestion. It features Mrs Maggie Wright of Brooklyn who claims rapid recovery after two years of illness and notes she was well in five weeks.
Alfred Wilson reports two fields on his home farm in Indian Head N W T for 1903. Field 1 a 60 acre stubble field yielded 37 bushels per acre with harvest at 88 cents per bushel, netting profit about 624.89 after costs. Field 2 a 60 acre stubble field yielded 25 bushels per acre with lower costs and a profit around 188.05. Total farm output includes 10 500 bushels of wheat and 5 000 to 6 000 of oats and barley.
Georgia rate cut proposal from three to two cents per mile draws opposition from Brotherhood of Structural Engineers Order of Seallway Conductors and allied unions. An attorney argued the measure harms state prosperity and railroad jobs and wages while the Travelers Protective Association warned of fewer trains and poorer service. The piece ends with a stray line urging buyers of green goods.
A clerical passenger questions a beardless man about life and possible death. The unnamed exchange centers on sunrise and sunset as a metaphor for mortality. The young man concludes with a humorous line about needing more baseball umpires.
A Fond du Lac Presbyterian minister D D Van Doren reports kidney disorder attacks kept him home. He credits Deans Kidney Pills for health improvement and relief, noting price at 50 cents, Lester-Moern Co Bulale, N Y. Also a humor exchange on keeping mouth shut while sleeping.
Ada C. Smith of 405 Grand St Jersey City recounts severe itching and scratching of the scalp, using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. After one box and one cake, her head cleared and hair grew back, vowing to continue the products.
An old advertisement urges watching for the first signs of indigestion and using Dr Cubiwell's Syrup Pepsin to prevent trouble. It claims quick, pleasant relief from chronic dyspepsia, sold by druggists for 50 cents and $1 with money back if unsatisfied.
A collage of vintage quips and ads includes a One Hundred Dollars Reward promise for a racecure, dubious medical claims from F. J. Cheney Co, and various wares. It also features a joke about the height of women, plus ads for Hall’s Family Pills, Allen’s Foot Powder, and other generic products.
A garbled OCR segment presents varied lines on money value, local products, medicines, and random names. It references the Lewin Single Winder, a smoker, a Peoria factory, a 1901 date, Piso’s Cure, a 2 cent coin update in South Africa, and scattered phrases about envy and fame.
John Hay once secretary of state since 1898 is reported seriously ill at Hadamuheim Germany. He previously served as ambassador to England and as secretary of legation at Madrid Vienna and as translator secretary of state. Born October 8 1838 in Salem Indiana he graduated Brown University in 1858. His wife was daughter of the late Amasa Stone of Cleveland Obie.
Early figures for the Mukden battle losses from Feb 10 to March 14 were inflated. Russian casualties are given as 87,077 wounded or missing, 15,000 killed, 7,000 to 13,000 captured, 10,000 to 12,000 missing noncombatants, plus 32 guns lost. General Kuropatkin’s resignation cited as clash with Linovitch over Vladivostok.
A fragmented survey notes unions forming in Fayetterie Arkansas Ogden Utah and Lehigh Pennsylvania with campaigns for higher wages and steadier work. It also mentions attempts to organize Atlantic longshoremen under the Knights of Tabor, a Chicago stockyards child labor probe, Michigan contract labor bills, New Zealand labor party looming, and various wage and labor reforms across Canada Ireland England Wales and Massachusetts.
Articles by John W. Glenister of Providence highlight long distance swimming feats in America and England and endorse Peruna as a spring tonic. The piece warns athletes to maintain digestion, circulation, and sleep, urging use of Peruna to stay in the pink of condition and fend off spring fatigue.
In New York an advertisement from The Peruna Medicine Company of Columbus Ohio features athlete John W. Glenister praising Peruna for improving spring fitness. He notes trying multiple tonics in prior years with no benefit and credits Peruna with delivering satisfaction and preparing athletes for training battles this season.
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