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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1917
Page
8
An aged advertisement extols Cascarets for headaches, biliousness, and constipation, urging a 10-cent box for a month of clearer heads and calmer bowels. It claims cleansing of bile and gases, with social scenes and consumer testimonials interwoven in a blitz of health claims.
Ogdensburg Wisconsin resident Mia Ezra Denton reports sharp stabbing pains and weakness from female troubles. After rejecting surgery she tried Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which she credits with relief after two bottles. The ad urges other women to seek Pinkham's medicine and free advice from the company in Lynn Massachusetts.
An Alberta farmer recounts his six year experience on a 160 acre quarter section with $400 capital. He describes initial poor soil and repairs, then details assets including four horses, 12 cattle, 400 purebred chickens and 126 turkeys, well and pump, chicken house, fencing, root cellars, and annual yields from garden crops and hay. He notes egg production and vegetable feeding support, with yearly farm income ranging from $400 to $1,000 from gardens and about $7 per spring for steerage, along with poultry and grain sales.
A fragmentary mock dialogue features characters Manu, Shaw Rossa, Shigg, Matt, and Mir in a nonsensical exchange. The scene hints at pursuit and memory, with garbled phrases about a performer, a forward motion, and a somersault.
A garbled OCR passage shows a teacher asking who rules when the king dies and later who would take the queen's place. The dialogue mentions the queen and a retort about succession, with further garbled lines about a new cloth testing and a tempter, leaving the rest unreadable.
The Iowa House approved a joint resolution to submit the suffrage question to voters, sending the measure to Governor Harding. Debates focused on whether a referendum would occur and how it would affect upcoming elections, with supporters urging progress toward equal rights and opponents wary of timelines.
A quirky exchange centers on a barber who insists a patron is plotting against him after buying a hair restorer. The customer retorts that stalled hair growth prompted the purchase, leaving both parties at a humorous impasse over trust and treatment.
A Cincinnati authority promotes Freezone as a cheap remedy for tender corns and hardened calluses. Applied directly, it claims to stop soreness and loosen the corn or callus for easy removal. One small bottle is sold at drug stores and is said not to irritate surrounding skin.
A Western man asks what a shad consists of and a Eastern expert explains the fish is mainly backbone wishbone Zam bybone and then some. The exchange captures a humorous regional dialogue on fishing knowledge.
An old promotional piece touts Green's August Flower as a remedy for disordered stomach liver complaints and related symptoms. It describes how the tonic cleanses the digestive tract, stimulates bile, and purifies the blood, urging readers to try it with claimed fifty year use in the United States and abroad.
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