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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1896
Page
3
A fragmented reading exposes a string of humorous quips about interviews and books, mentioning a reporter asking about life changing books, a Sydney Bulletin cartoon jab, and a Puck take on a fashionable congregation and church property taxation, all reflecting mock dialogue.
An 1900s advertisement extols Hall's Catarrh Cure as mercury free and effective internally, warning against mercury in other remedies. It features testimonials, mentions Toledo makers F J Cheney Co, and notes competing products like Piso’s Cure for Consumption. The clippings reference various era health quackery lines and unrelated notes.
Ambrose Thomas aged 85 credited his long life to exercise and outdoor living. Prince Ghika named Roumanian minister at Paris belongs to a famed Ghika family with three ministers in ten years across Berlin London and Paris. Ex congressman Harter described himself as a Jeffersonian conservative, a quiet plain studious man, noted for oppose radical legislation.
Dr. Mabel Spencer of Kansas City Kansas is appointed physician of Riley County the first woman named to the post in the state Mrs Ben Clemmons of Breathitt Kentucky is 35 and weighs about 400 pounds and continues to gain Frankie Nelson proclaims herself champion woman bicycle rider of America heading to a sixty day contest in London Miss Francis Hull assists her father in coal weighing in Cincinnati and now becomes deputy coal weigher entering duties with a $1000 bond The University of Michigan elects Elola F Mosher professor of hygiene and women’s dean a graduate of 1875 with a career in university roles
A fragmentary reminiscence notes a balloon escape with a fall of 4653 feet in the last second, countered by air pressure. It alludes to notable feats and counts fatalities from 1890 to 1894, then mentions broad global comparisons and a Lake Park Iowa drinker who allegedly completed a case of twenty four bottles, with garbled lines suggesting further anecdotes.
Marie Tempest pursues American rights for a new Gilbert and Sullivan opera while New York Paris and London theater totals reach millions. The Rise of Silas Lapham is adapted with Howells and Crane. Digby Bell and Laura Joyce take roles in Hoyt’s Midnight Bell. Harrison leads a new Chicago piece. Quotes from Ferguson and Irving discuss Shakespeare as actor test, and Boston bans Jude the Obscure from its library.
Too few people know medical advances and doctors’ faster progress. Mrs. George Rowend of East Main reports long female trouble improved after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She praises the pills for restoring health and heart strength after years of illness. Pills sold by druggists or mail from Schenectady NY. 60 cents a box or six boxes for 2.60.
A collage of elderly ages and memories including Obed Thornton of Arcade near 102, Augusta Manthles at 104 with a fire rescue, John Rogers at 108 a British veteran of 1812, Isabella Graverat a Chippewa in Detroit, plus singers from Elijah in Birmingham. Also notices on deaths Patrick Hinde and Pioneer Scott, and a Santa Fe Route spring excursion offer with travel details and contacts.
On April 21 and May 5 tickets go on sale from principal city and village on the Louisville line for Tennessee Alabama Mississippi Florida and parts of Kentucky at one fare for round trip. Tickets good to return within twenty one days for $2 paid to the agent at destination with stop overs allowed on the south bound trip.
A mosaic of stately claims about the United States includes distances across the nation and a telegraph of big numbers. It notes 300000 miles would circle the U S ten times, 600000 telephones in use with 2 million daily calls, and 220000 workers in woolen manufacture with ships being built from Destruction to Br eetes. The piece touches on malaria and culture as factors, then shifts to a humorous town gossip about a girl and culture.
The article notes mining districts in Colorado and Mercur Utah attract attention through travel routes and land car service. It mentions information points near camps, agents, and passes with tickets available in Omaha Nebraska, highlighting a fertile, thriving roll of activity and enterprise across the camps.
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