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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1894
Page
9
A collage of dialogue and vignettes with humor and gossip among children and adults, plus aging reflections on memory and health. The collection shifts from playful exchanges and local chatter to observational notes on memory and early medical tips, mentioning remedies for kidney and bladder issues and stomach ailments.
A damaged OCR sample shows a fragmentary ad and partial text including names like B W Flint and references to a commercial agent in Des Moines. The readable phrases mention Sukiar and a corn barter line, plus scattered dialogue and a proverb about effort versus intention.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant pure laxative that cleanses the system and relieves colds headaches and constipation. It claims no weakening of the liver and bowels and notes the product sells in 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles from the California Fig Syrup Company with no substitutes.
In Dieppe a spree of brutal murders shocks residents as a single killer, Jacques Reynauld, evades capture. A widow and servant are slain in Rue des Armes while a child and a husband perish in a later Rue Greillard attack. Police prize rises as gendarmes pursue leads, including a builder named Dulac and a servant witness Dulac’s testimony about a left hand with three fingers. The assailant is captured after a dramatic confrontation and executed by guillotine.
Fragmentary report notes estimates vary about the percentage of blindness linked to midwives and childbirth neglect. It states that the blindness is absolutely preventable by at least two simple means and urges action to avert such outcomes.
A garbled OCR fragment lists assorted facts and trivia from history and geography. Items mention Dresden taxes, Pittsburg occupation date 1734, asparagus as an old food, ancient Athens board costs, Tolata rubber rival, Irish land reclamation, Constantinople freeze date, New Orleans to San Francisco rail time, Southern pig iron production, a Seattle Olympia transport feat, Tappan’s old church anniversary, a Montana thief sentence, Chinese honor death by strangulation, Vermont governor with staff reassignments, a Boston vermonter posting, and a deafness cure claim.
A collage of travel promotions for reduced round trips to Kansas Oklahoma Indian Territory and Colorado with Santa Fe routes noted. Snippets cover grape varieties shifts from yellow bananas to red, head hunting Nagas ethnology, a Spanish cruiser’s Bilbao trials, and helmet diving reaching 201 feet, all in brisk snapshots.
A printed jumble mixture promotes Burlington Route excursions from Chicago to the West with details on comfortable cars and priced fares, then markets medical remedies and a moral quip about gambling and honesty, finishing with miscellaneous social commentary and travel calls. Notable items mention Omaha agents, canyons and rail routes, and a testimonial for Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh from Lola Texas in 1591.
A collage of brief items notes oddities from 72 AD cloak costs to Charlemagne buying shoes, a Boston widow, university enrollments, Washington state sawmills, dust sweeping air-pumps, Maxim’s aeroplane hopes, Miss Weedon’s marriage quip, and Revolutionary War field sizes.
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