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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1897
Page
8
Advertises Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring medicine to purify blood amid impure air rich foods and late hours. Claims easy intake and strong renewal of appetite, nerves, and strength, branding it the best blood purifier. Also promotes Hood's Pills as a companion product.
Printer workers in Jersey City recount a strange rat display after a zinc tank trap and a swinging board baited with cheese and bologna. Rats balanced on the board, fed on bait, and even appeared to play seesaw as they fell into water, while the engineer claims to see clever rat behavior.
A 19th century guide warns housekeepers that coffee pots accumulate a black oily deposit that ruins flavor and color. Daily washing of pots, brushing wire gauze strainers, and thorough drying are essential, with boiling rinse after cleaning. Water is blamed for lingering oils and poor maintenance.
William H. Smither of Versailles Kentucky earns a notable milestone at 100 years old in 1827. He has diligently practiced the needlework trade from a small Court Square shop, tailoring garments across generations. His work ties him to Kentucky figures like John J. Crittenden and Senator J G S Blackburn.
Mr. Smither, late and hearty with a snowy beard, perfect teeth, and erect bearing, recalls his past as a Dassinger on the initial steamboat trip in Kentucky and attending Therquis de La Fayette's 1845 Versailles reception. His wife Drusilla, at 90, is the oldest woman in the city. They have been married sixty three years and hope to celebrate their seventy fifth anniversary.
Hiram Lukens began at the Intelligencer office in Darylestown learning printing and remains at his case after sixty five years of continuous service. He has trained many apprentices yet stands as the quickest and steadier typist, with an unmatched record for output and precision.
A Boston figure, Augustus Hemenway, led a voyage during the Buenos Ayres blockade era to transport copper ore from Valparaiso. The clipper Flora attempted the Horn, shifted to safe routes, returned to Valparaiso with copper ore, and profits were reported as the venture progressed, establishing Hemenway among Boston’s notable merchants.
A schoolmistress tests pupils by asking the meaning of credit using a money short mother example. Jonathan hesitantly replies that she would pawn their father’s Sunday goat, illustrating the lesson with a strained miscue as the class resists.
Article notes a newly established British Government preserve in British Central Africa near the Shire River above Chirome, teeming with buffaloe, water buck, and zebra. It contrasts calls for laxatives with Hostenser Bitters to safely aid digestion and bowels, then reports Germany running a budget surplus of 12 million marks after debt reduction allocations.
A fragment from Williams County Alabama marks a promotion for Salzer's German Coffee Berry claiming customers can grow pounds of better coffee at 30 cents a pound. The notice mentions a Wisconsin seed catalog by John A Salzer and hints at a drugs and tobacco regulator product No To Bac, with claimed health benefits and prices 50 cents to 1 dollar.
An advertisement asserts deafness arises from catarrh and can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It claims nine of ten cases are due to catarrh, offers one hundred dollars for a catarrh deafness cure, and promotes Hell’s Catarh Core from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. It also mentions land offers in Queensland at three pence an acre and 20 estates of 400 acres for 25 dollars.
Railway advertises a homesteaders special from St Paul to Red River Valley Devil's Lake and Turtle Mountain with $2.50 round trip and $2.00 single fare for seekers to take up free homesteads. Address F J Wallner GP and T A St Paul Minnesota for details. Trade card excerpts include patent medicines and generic quotes from 1895 era.
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