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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1898
Page
8
An old fashioned scene shows a young lady asking to view false hair as an experienced shopman guides her. A humorous exchange highlights fashion and shop talk in a quaint storefront setting. The ad-promoted Allen's Foot-Ease promises relief for sore feet and bunions, touting comfort for tight shoes and sweaty feet with a trial offer and mail-orders.
A fish in Hudson Bay builds nests by gathering pebbles in its mouth and arranging them on a chosen bottom spot. The behavior is described as methodical and distinctive, with the nest site in shallow water. The note contrasts this with other natural curiosities and mentions historical quotes and assorted snippets from the era.
A sprawling caricature of a man calling himself the Prince of Wales, a professional beggar in evening dress, roams 23d Street seeking alms by claiming English connections and misfortunes. He threads through St George Society and British Consul references, pressing for trifling aid from passersby while narrating a tale of wealth and remote stock-farm plans.
An ad heavy with sensational claims extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a health guard for women's issues. A Jersey City reader writes of dramatic recovery from severe pain, nerves, and illness after using the remedy, praising its life changing effects.
News reports a devastating blast on a pack train en route to Col Dan Burns in Sinaloa Mexico. The explosion killed fifteen of 110 men and sixty mules, occurred near Sam Vincente and involved 218 powder boxes and 20,000 caps. A cashier's shortage of 125060 appears in the related accounts.
The U S Department of Agriculture notes cool and moist conditions hinder farm work from New England to the Gulf States, with drought persisting in California and parts of Oregon and North Dakota. Planting progresses slowly in southern regions while northern states report late crops and variable stands. fruit outlook remains promising in the north, with tobacco transplants ongoing in the Carolinas and Florida corn suffering from drought.
Me chanic's National Bank of Bedford Massachusetts reports cashier Lemuel T Terry died of cyanide poisoning in the directors room after a $125000 deficit was uncovered. An autopsy confirmed suicide with survival seeking intent. Investigators link Terry's Calumet and Hecla investments to the loss and misused trust funds from Sylvia A Howland estate. William W Crapo chairs the bank's board.
Chemists at Glucose Sugar Refining Company of Chicago announce a found process to vulcanize corn oil into rubber. Five chemists have worked months on the invention, claiming it surpasses South American rubber in resilience and longevity and could control bicycle tire manufacture. The process was discovered accidentally by one chemist.
East bound Southern Pacific passenger train held up by masked robbers two miles west of San Antonio. Mail and express cars dynamited. Robbers absconded with about 20000 dollars. Also reports of a Spaniard killed in Ohio and local festival notes in New Mexico and Kansas.
A massive explosion at the California powder works in Santa Cruz caused multiple shocks and extensive destruction. Between fifteen and twenty workers, mostly young men, were killed with many more injured. The incident involved the gun cotton, nitroglycerin, and smokeless powder buildings, and authorities suspect spontaneous combustion. Rumors of sabotage circulated but are considered unlikely.
State Items of Interest reports in Fessenden North Carolina population claims and local newspaper counts. Mentions include P Maresh Denison Texas businessman collapsing at his store. Senator Morris Vermont marked his eighty eighth birthday in Washington. Hugh Wraser is charged with murder and was neglected at Bessemer Alabama. Fraser accompanied Thomas Collins during the shooting of J Howell in the Bessemer prison last December.
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