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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
4
The advertisement touts Garfield Tea Syrup as effective for everyday ills requiring a mild laxative in infants children and adults. It claims the product relies on pure sugar fruit and herbs while acknowledging moral concerns and virtue in the heart.
A historical appeal urging mothers to seek Mrs Pinkham’s free medical guidance for relief during heavy daily labor. The letter highlights women facing stern health challenges and credits Vegetable Compound with restoring strength, urging reliance on personal testimony from Ludington Michigan.
A collage of promotional notices and stray items lists job schemes, free samples, medicine claims, and public notices. It includes recruitment pitches, military pension mentions, product ads for foot powder and digestive syrups, celebrity donations, and a crime report note about Deputy Marshal Thomas Taylor’s death and the capture of his assailant.
The ad warns of danger from a drugging ingredient and touts Grain-O as a safe alternative. It markets a product tied to rest and stamina, urging purchases at grocery stores and small packages priced at ten cents.
Bankers Mutual Casualty Company reports a surge in bank robberies tied to nitroglycerine carried by tramps. Investigations show many robbers are laypersons, not experts, with most cases involving small-town banks and safes blown open by nitro glycerine. Evidence links work on the Chicago drainage canal to the pattern, as ex-workers travel to crack safes elsewhere. A separate incident notes a child’s injury after wandering from a train near Ainsworth, with the boy treated at Columbus Junction and recovering.
Mrs. Hattie Cramer of Allen county died recently leaving a $28,000 estate. Daniel McKinney, a Dubuque area farmer, appeared with proof of marriage to Cramer and claimed the estate, saying he was unaware of her death and that friends and relatives knew nothing of the secret wedding. The case follows burial plans today as legal steps begin.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions individuals and places in a riven sequence with no coherent event. Names appear garbled and no measurable action or date is clear, leaving only scattered references to people and locations.
Ottumwa Iowa October reports a wealthy farmer Thomas Dougherty near Albia was tricked by two strangers, given two gold bricks as security for a $7000 loan, tested by an assay and later discovered as a swindle. The con men vanished with cash while Dougherty kept the gold bars, later learning via a nephew that he’d been fleeced.
Tadlany Claloay Town Dance reports that Thomas Sapoh of the Pottuwattamie Indians in Michigan was chosen chief in a recent council at Touqquin Van Buren county. Sapoh vows to press the tribe's claim to extensive lands in Jews as their rightful heritage. he is about 65, with his father Jacta Bopeh having once ruled the tribe.
The Cincinnati court of common pleas ruled against Joseph Irwin in favor of Peter Christmas, a tenant for seven years. The circuit court previously upset that judgment as the jury’s report read on the issues rather than a single issue. Last week the case was reopened when the form of verdict was found printed with an erroneous plural.
F A Miller brother of Roswell P Miller and longtime assistant is appointed general passenger agent of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul system effective October 16 1900 to replace George H Heatford who recently resigned. Miller will head the passenger department from the Marquette building as Marsh and Merrill remain in their posts. Born in Harford Pennsylvania Miller began his railroad career in 1874 and has served the St Paul system since 1883 rising through clerical to the top post.
An old advertisement touts Cascaret Cand Cathartic pills as a cure for various ailments from headaches to cancers. It promises easy natural movements and health restoration for 10 cents to start, warns against imitations, and notes metal-box packaging with Q.C. stamped on each bag.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat excerpt quotes a businessman recalling a Manchester visit where workers crafted plows resembling an American model. The guide notes no English patents and no plan to market in the United States, as the old design had already been discarded for an improved version.
Fragmentary 1900s advertisement text mentions Allen's Foot-tase powder for swelling corns and bunions and Laxative Bromo Quinine for cold relief. Includes drugstore references and prices, with scattered lines about theater managers and other products.
The Hub proposes a monument to Captain Ginty of Danbury Connecticut as the man who invented baked beans. The twist is that Captain Ginty never lived in Boston. A stray line mentions Putnam Face Less Dyes colors for Silk Wool or Cotton.
Detroit and Milwaukee share a long twin city saga with shifting populations from mid nineteenth century to 1890, Detroit peaking earlier with 21k to 46k range while Milwaukee trails, then both converge near 285k by the end of the period. Detroit edges Milwaukee narrowly in 1890 with 285,754 versus 285,315.
The Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway Passenger Department invites readers to obtain a unique pen knife souvenir mailed separately for twenty five cents. The note lists the train’s routes from St. Louis to Houston and San Antonio via several cities, and mentions no general free distribution due to cost. An unrelated line about weddings follows.
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