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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1895
Page
3
A fragmentary dialogue shows two women discussing a street meeting with Charlie Iverson last night and a rejected marriage proposal. The scene shifts to insults over price drops and a patient sales pitch for a seed company.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system and relieves headaches and fever. It claims wide medical approval, non weakening action on the kidneys and bowels, and lists 60c and 81c bottles from California Fig Syrup Go. Only the genuine product bears the brand name and no substitutes.
Industrial World outlines an improved log carriage enabling square lumber with a single mid sized saw. It details a movable supplemental frame, gear drives, a forward raising mechanism, and a log-support system. Also described is adhesive plaster tips, metal casting innovations, and early fireplace alarm ideas with a taut wire system.
The article notes aluminum low cost prompts trials of aluminum horseshoes but finds tempered steel inserts wear resistant and durable for cavalry road tests. It cites a 360 mile, 28 day trek proving steel armored shoes meet cavalry needs. It also covers whale bone substitutes failing under humidity and a fire alarm using non-electrical cord transport.
The New York Sun notes six New York churches display the cock on spires or weather vanes, likely not to preserve superstition but reflecting an ancient symbol. It traces the cock to pagan inn traditions, its Christian sacred aura after Peter's denial, and legends linking Christ's birth to the bird in the Middle Ages.
An advertisement touts Salzer's seeds claiming they greatly increase crops such as oats, grass, and vegetables. It offers free samples of Grams and Clover Mixture plus a seed book for those who mail the cutout. Also promotes health travel guides, excursions, and railroad fare offers to various southern and western destinations with first class round trips and stopover details.
An aged Arke County resident, Mr Nunnally of Georgia, recalls suspenders worn fifty six years. A weekly Athens publication bills itself as the world’s most extraordinary journal with verse content. Miss Ellen Tickle of Heno Ohio is described as a very small, thirty one year old at twenty eight pounds. Excavations at Direath England reveal a window pane in a Roman villa. Milwaukee museum displays Corean musical instruments donated by Miss Elizabeth Planking ton. Bryant lends a valuable North Greenland Esquimaux collection to Penn State library. A tent displays natives with household and chase implements. The Great Mystery notes Fricks So Sinderburn live on two thousand a year and stay out of debt.
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