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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1898
Page
7
A historical critique argues that surgical cancer treatment is largely useless as the disease is in the blood. It claims the knife often hastens death, noting the high mortality from such operations and rejecting surgery as a cure for cancer and blood illnesses.
A poetic prose vignette describes a dim room, burning logs, sunlit green branches, and blue pools in a remote wood. A golden spark rises like a spirit, a firefly gliding through the marshy dark, evoking a dreamlike forest atmosphere.
In a tale from Montagu Morton a fake opal theft is staged to test Reynal's Detective Agency. Morton feigns loss, uses a staged sting with an electrician and an emissary, and finally reveals the supposed recovery as a fabrication to expose Reynal's failures.
Auction or rental offered for a 400 acre farm on Bowen's Prairie. Terms preferred as sale. Contact Marr Faner at 12.tf Cascade Iowa for details.
For rent after October 1 the Burrell house at North Cedar Street. A large new home with modern improvements and a spacious barn. Inquire at 101f J. W. Doxsen.
In old Hays City a boot heel killer buried with a railroad signboard headboard bore a stark warning on the reverse side Look Out For the Cars. The tale, recounted by a longtime Kansan, recalls the rough days when Boot Hill thrived in the short grass era.
A dialog about love and taste is noted in a Hartford Times fragment. The story hints at future disappointment despite a favorable match as the old man judges the young man. Ads promote DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve and One Minute Cough Cure as medical cures.
D C Prader & Co announces it now holds the agency for Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. The remedy is claimed to cure asthma bronchitis hoarseness and throat chest and lung affections. Trial bottle free and regular sizes 50 cents and 1.00 guaranteed to cure or price refunded.
A collage of patent medicine pitches and miscellany notes. Advertisements tout Electric Bitters Dr Sawyer remedies DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve and Little Early Risers while local notices mention Mrs Arazina Menning in New York obituary history and assorted quotes from papers.
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