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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1901
Page
4
A garbled collection of product pitches and social jests appears with references to Allen's foot powder 25c, Piso's Cure for Consumption, and various literary revival anecdotes. The snippet includes misquoted lines, promotional lines, and a stray joke about three knights, reflecting a damaged page of miscellaneous 19th century advertising and notices.
A humorous or curious-physics style note claims an average man has about 2,500 inches of skin with 2,500 sweat glands per square inch and over 7,000,000 glands in total, each gland about a quarter inch long, totaling roughly twenty eight miles of tubing in the skin.
Fragments from a gospel manuscript once missing from St Matthew were unearthed near Sinope last year and purchased by Paris’s Bibliothecae Nationale. Two pages were later located at Maripal on the Sea of Avon and acquired by the local museum. The vellum volume bore purple tint and large gold Greek lettering.
A disrupted page blends tax reform for Glasgow police funding with multiple ads. It mentions an 80 percent proposed levy on landlords excess rents, plus references to catarrh cures, royalty mailers, and travel fares. Also notes starch pricing shifts, summer birth height claims, Wizard Oil ads, and an heir’s rights dispute.
Carter Starr and Eloise Storms drift during a storm while fleeing their family feuds. They survive by tying a rope and planning marriage to face disgrace and seven storms of judgment. Upon rescue the pair report they wed at St Stephen's and earn a stern blessing from Eloise's uncle and the Storms clan.
In the Mojave Desert a prospector struck artesian water rather than oil, with three wells flowing as gushers at depths around 185 feet to 215 miner's inches. If the water belt proves permanent, a land boom and influx of settlers may follow, transforming the arid region.
A New York Times report notes Kaiser Wilhelm II favors ecclesiastical construction, drawing public ire over spending. At a Siegerallee statue unveiling in the Tiergarten, a street child quipped about another bald spot for a church, reflecting lighthearted taxpaying discontent.
A fragmented passage discusses liberty, Winslow's soothing syrup for children, and teething remedies. It mentions soothing gums, reducing irritation and wind colic, and notes that conversation centers on where to begin and when to stop.
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