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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1916
Page
8
A Washington Park Illinois woman describes relief from female troubles nervous spells and blues after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. She praises the treatment and urges others with similar symptoms to seek guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Perry answers that only one person works in the office and he arrived today, while others have been with us some time. The exchange reveals a lean staff situation and a sparse, unsettled office environment.
A simple home preparation uses water with Bay rum, barba compound, and gingering substitute to darken hair gradually. Applied twice weekly, it aims to color streaks, restore shine, reduce dandruff, and improve hair softness without a greasy residue.
A dialogue fragment centers on romantic inquiry and self worth as one character questions the other about ambition while the responder challenges the first to reveal a worthwhile aim and value.
Important to mothers. Examine every bottle of Castoria, a safe and sure remedy for stomach troubles, and see that it bears the Use for Over 30 Years. Children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
An old health advisory promotes BromO Quinine combinations as a tonic and stimulant to curb grip prevalence. It asserts quinine blends destroy a pathogen, claiming to strengthen the body to withstand cold and flu. The text mentions Grove’s and box warnings as typical packaging cues.
Analysis notes a shallow approach as Hodge falters early, failing to dive into depth before turning tentative. The piece questions his ability to sustain momentum and suggests a lack of substantial depth in execution.
A Des Moines report by the Iowa State Highway Commission details 87 fatalities and 1,500 severe injuries from 1915 auto accidents, with two thirds due to speeding and inexperience. Fire marshal notes 108 deaths from 1915 fires, urges stronger laws and wiring inspections. Also covers President Wilson’s Iowa visit, seed corn week plans, 1916 fair bids, penitentiary moves, census gains, parole work, and bank capital rules.
May bidders including Fort Dodge junk firms prepare offers for the Crooked Creek Railroad and Coal Co property. Attorneys have drafted a decree to Judge H T Reed authorizing sale. The 18 mile light steel track from Webster City to Leigh opened in 1872 during Leigh coal growth. as mines declined, the road faded. The receiver seeks an order to operate another locomotive for one daily round trip.
City council agreed to award a contract for repaving forty blocks. Combined with two miles paved last season, Spencer aims to become one of the best paved cities of its size in the state.
Captain C. L. Watyons, a pioneer Des Moines nurseryman since 1849, died at age 79. He managed his nursery until death and long served in state horticultural circles as a board member. He belonged to the American Pomology society, presiding as president for six years, with global membership.
A workman uncovering a trunk in a razed Philadelphia building finds a body wrapped in leather and quicklime. Police identify the murdered man as Daniel J. McNichol, 25, who disappeared March 36, 1814. Foreman Edward J. Kelley is charged with murder after confessing and alleging McNichol is alive.
Two boys aged nine and ten in West Orange faced juvenile court via George Durr of 2 Orange Place and John McNerney of Elm Street after shoplifting at Henry Schmidt’s store on Main Street. Police found a small boys’ club named the Crooks Athletic Club or the Terrible Fifty- Bigot encouraging petty theft.
George White of Boston slept upright in North Station, drawing a crowd and was fined 10 by Judge Burke in municipal court. White admitted the sleeping position caused the crowd while standing.
West Barwick Pa chief of police George W Sliker took a chance at a muddy goose race and won a goose but lost his job. He faced charges for allowing and supporting gambling by participating amid a dispute with Chief Burgess W Treas.
Dear Mr. Editor I suffered from a tired worn-out feeling and could scarcely stand erect. After taking Anuric Tablets my back began to improve and I could walk more normally. The advertisement claims Anuric dissolves uric acid and aids sluggish kidneys, urging readers to ask their druggist for the 30-cent packages from Dr Pierce.
The exchange turns on a wry bit of wit about aviation risk. A speaker muses that speculators would venture more if flights were safer or more profitable, noting that they are accustomed to taking risks. The remark underlines a gambler’s mindset in speculative markets.
A grateful letter by Mrs A G Clemens of West Aleran Ger Pa praises Dodd's Kidney Pills and Diamond Dinner Pills for backache spinal tenderness and other ailments noting relief after use. The ad also promotes Dodd's Dyspepsia Tablets at 60¢ a box and mentions a government plan by Japan to start a factory for producing carbotic acid from coal tar.
The Manchester Guardian notes a young boy’s wartime insight as news reaches a house that a father in the regiment has been wounded in France. The child asks where, learns “In the hand,” and quips that his father has been “trying to cater the bullet.”
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a reliable remedy for many female ailments from puberty to old age. It claims to be a temperance medicine with ingredients listed on the wrapper and promises relief from headaches, backache, hot flashes, catarrhal symptoms, brownsense, low mood, dizziness, and fainting in women during times of trial.
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