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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1898
Page
6
A fragment from a 19th century page includes a note on a superstition about placing hats on beds at a private gathering and a vintage advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder. It promotes the product as relieving painful feet, sweating, and discomfort with claims of easy shoes and a trial offer by mail.
An 1883 ad from C Belts Denver promotes Pigo's Cure for coughs and colds. The notice cites Shanghai as a location and notes Chinese women observed abroad, reflecting period marketing and global references in a clipped historical clipping.
A Linden New Jersey woman describes severe uterine bleeding and weakness that left her bedridden. After medical treatment failed she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and recovered enough to work again. She urges others to seek female physician advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lyon Massachusetts.
A mash of editorials and notices from multiple papers discusses Spanish American War topics. It cites strategic debates, naval strength, and calls for troop mobilization, with reflections on Gladstone and Chamberlain and notes on public figures and war logistics.
Reported tale recalls 1872 rats terrorizing farmers chosen as costs agreed for a supper and dance. Ten days of hunting yielded 6350 dead rats with over 1000 slain on G W Reynolds farm. A tail count and sinking the count followed prior to a village dance at the schoolhouse.
A spoof voyage by steamship from Constantinople sails with calts at Algiers Naples and Venice. Spectators on board witness ship motion and canvases rolling to fool passengers. Naples dancers join the spectacle and warships, tempests and sunrises are staged as part of the show.
Summary of mixed notices mentions a preservation method for Burtar using wrap, paraffin, and sealing techniques, an opening of the Trans Mississippi Exposition with Sioux City travel options, a pamphlet from H C Uhey about expanding travel, a Viennese superstition about hotel room numbers, an ad for Hall's Catarrh Cure, and the National Museum in Washington reporting over 112000 specimens collected last year, up 50 percent.
In his early life Louis XVI pursued locksmithing, and during imprisonment he amused himself by making locks. The fragment hints at trades and crafts tied to the era, though details are sparse and parts of the original text are garbled.
A long reader section mixes a relief testimony about Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with promotional notes and stray items. The letter by Herman H. Eveler praises the pills for heart and debility, while local items mention elephants on Indian railways and Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup, all in a column flavor of 19th century notices.
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