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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1896
Page
9
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a permanent cure for rheumatism and blood diseases, claiming purification of the blood, safe, affordable relief, and widespread popularity. It also promotes Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy, with a $100 reward for proof of failure and testimonials from users.
The piece recalls a decades old South Dakota winter of record snow and ice with drifts 20 to 30 feet high, destroyed fences, buried cattle, and ice bridges on the Missouri river. It notes railroads blocked for months, widespread flood later that spring, and the lasting impact on prairie towns and river bottoms.
London and other English towns offer toads at sixpence per dozen as an effective pest control. Slugs and other garden pests are hunted by the toads at evening, with buyers eagerly gathering them from hedges and streams. Florists and gardeners acquire them for large gardens.
A newspaper note claims American women’s feet are growing larger from athletic activity. It asserts that prolonged gym workouts will broaden and flatten the feet, predicting noticeable size increases within twenty years and highlighting two years of steady gym training.
Horace J. Hoffman recalls a Kenesaw Mountain camp incident when a windstorm toppled a chestnut tree onto a tent, killing two men and nearly trapping him. The tale extends to pension questions, Colonel McMynn, and a famed brigade exchange with Brigadier General Blank, ending with Sheridan anecdotes and Grant's vast command.
A jumbled OCR sample presents old advertisement blurbs for Stomach Bitters, hair tonics, seed potatoes, soap brands, and medicinal claims. It mentions Hostetters Stomech Bitters and Vall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer, plus seeds from John A. Salzer Seed Co and various quack cure lines. The text reads like a collage of 19th or early 20th century ads with dubious claims and scattered product names.
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