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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1897
Page
8
The passage contrasts Rosat Rosd and a Greek mathema t Wes with a debate on finding simpler routes to geometry. It cites a reply that there is no royal road to geomercy and parallels Alexander the Great learning from a tutor that one should follow established methods despite their difficulty.
A Manx historian recalls a sharp tongued Methodist woman who wishes ill of preachers and greets a successor with a sly blessing. The piece also endorses Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for rheumatism and other ailments, touting its powers against cold fatigue and bodily complaints.
Paris proposes to treat the Obelisk in Central Park like Cleopatra’s Needle in Paris. The plan includes boring through the needle in Place de la Concorde, running wires for an electric light at the summit, and digging beneath the shaft to install it.
An old advertisement touts Tey Allen s Poor-Ease a powder to shake into shoes to cool swollen hot feet reduce sweating and ease tiredness. Claims relief from bunions calous spots and general foot discomfort with 25¢ price and free trial package offered via Aller S. Olmsted Le Boy.
The monarch Kierg Louis XIV of France praised Jean Batiste Masilion, bishop of Clermont, as the most elegant preacher. He stated that after hearing Masilion, he felt personally dissatisfied with himself, unlike after other sermons.
An assembly of miscellaneous old ads and notices: Hall’s Catarrh Gore offered as a constitutional cure at 75 cents. a London Bobby’s force salary outlined with a future raise and allowances. references to Dandraft and hair loss remedies. mention of Napoleon’s last survivor Baillot with an eye age of 104. Piso’s Cure for Consumption credited to Dr. Baker. a dialogue snippet about notice in employment leaving a balance of costs. Spare Moments quip about notice and breaking china.
A medical advertisement describes ovarian inflammation with pain and swelling and urges quick self care. It cites Mrs Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier, including a testimonial from Miss Anni Curtis of Ticonderoga praising the treatment and urging others to seek her remedies.
Washington dispatch reports Democratic leaders misjudged the Sugar Trust in repealing the Wilson tariff while praising the new revenue law. Early signs show stronger business activity and factory openings nationwide as confidence rises. Expert Meyer of Louisiana predicts boosted sugar beet and cane output, with expansion across Louisiana Texas Florida and broader beet sugar development through the North, supported by higher protection. AL B CARSON.
A DC area bond sale by the Columbia Athletic Club drew attention as John R. McLean requested gold bonds payable to him. Newspapers weigh McLean’s political silver stance against his business demand for gold, noting varied editorials and opinions on the matter and the broader currency issue.
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss McKinley era tariff policy and British manufacturers, mentioning Bradford and a Free Trade gift concept. The text references William McKinley protection four years, and a slogan Come in Out of the Wet, Jonanie, with scattered figures like 28 0103374 and S17 AULCO.
The piece recounts Captain Mayhew Folger discovering the Pitcairn Island settlement during a Pacific voyage aboard the Topaz. It cites Folger’s log entry describing landing on Pitcairn, meeting an Englishman named Alexander Smith, and learning that survivors from the Bounty era remained on the island.
Narrative recounts the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789. Christian and seven others, with wives and servants, settle on Pitcairn Island near Pittaiimm. Most mutineers die in a revolt. Smith survives with eight or nine women and children. Smith becomes commander and hosts visitors, while the narrator departs with gifts of hogs coconuts and plantains from the island people.
An explorer reports discovering two layers of sand containing diamonds near a crater lake on Witzies Hoek Natal. He wonders if the diamonds arose from mining activity or if this indicates a natural diamond-bearing deposit in a volcanic crater.
The piece lists aged graduates still living from various colleges. Samuel Ward Grandler, class of 1822, of Philadelphia, near forty years Harvard’s oldest. Mark Went wort Fletcher, class of 1825, from Warne, Illinois, nearing Harvard’s age. Various others include Monticello’s successor, Amherst’s sole survivor from 1828, Bowdoin’s Frederick Waite Burke, and Daniel H. Chase of Middletown among Vermont’s recent university leaders.
A fragmentary 1886 visit memory of Oliver Wendell Holmes in England is quoted, noting his fatigue, tea, and a rare reflection on the monks stairs and marble play. The piece links his impressions of the Great Temple of Silence with a past where children played marbles in cloister benches. An unrelated line mentions German journalists reporting a Musich membership rise to 501 with ninety seven supported last year.
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