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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1899
Page
8
A sensational health craze spreads as claims credit Cascarets Candy with curing constipation and boosting energy. Letters boast quick relief, praising the product and urging readers to buy, while warnings about imitation tabs surface. A bee poison anecdote adds a medical anecdote amid promotional content.
A famed Glasgow area physician, shown as a calm savior, faced a madhouse danger when lunatics poised to throw him into boiling water. He distracted them with antics and escaped, later dying mad, while a bizarre clock driven by a geyser marks time every 38 seconds. The column blends morbid anecdote with oddities and a humorous church tale.
A compendium of farm techniques and livestock advice discusses cow stall design to reduce tethering, post pulling methods for fence posts, and the merits of lighter draught horses. It also covers rye as a green crop, curing meat on the farm, plowing improvements, feeding potatoes to hogs, small fruits as profitable crops, warmer shelter for livestock, and breeding considerations for cattle and swine.
A Colorado girl jokes her father wears no necktie due to long whiskers. A Kansas girl retorts that her father’s whiskers were so long he did not wear our? yest. The exchange captures playful regional banter with humorous boast about parental facial hair.
The John M. Smyth Co warns the public that no agents operate for them and warns of imposters traveling the country falsely claiming representation. Victims have bought goods and paid cash or notes to these pretenders thinking they dealt with the firm. The notice urges caution against such frauds and highlights the firm’s stance that no agents exist.
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