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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1899
Page
8
A fragmentary 1902 era text critiques farming equipment ads and mass marketing by Deering Harvester Company. It notes aggressive promotion to farmers, Deering’s growing factory staff, and scattered quips about everyday life and medical curiosities. The unreliable OCR yields mixed excerpts including product claims and odd asides.
A note from Luna Evans of Parkersburg Iowa recounts relief after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for long standing womb inflammation leucorrhea and related symptoms. The letter credits the remedies with ending pains heart trouble and nervous distress, claiming she feels like a new woman after treatment.
A British report recounts John Cains swallowing ninety one pebbles and leaving Peterborough infirmary, while Guy’s Hospital displays scraps from John Cummings, an American sailor who swallowed knives after being inspired at a fair. Though Cains may think he set a record, doctors later treated Cummings until a stomach perforation proved fatal, with dozens of metal fragments preserved at Guy’s. Collins’s survivor tale edges out Cummings’ demise.
The essay argues Constantinople features the starkest public private contrast with marble mosques and seraglio beside mean private houses. Berlin follows with Unter den Linden and grand public buildings but slums, while Lisbon’s rebuilt city shows public grandeur clashing with owners limits, creating a notable disparity.
The Paris exhibition will feature a Foucault siderostat telescope able to render the Moon as if about 100 kilometers away. Steel tubes over a yard and a half in diameter will weigh around twenty tons. The device will photograph the Moon’s surface at ten thousand times the scale of prior efforts. The polishing of the reflector, a delicate task, nears completion.
A Washington Star quote features a boy with spectacles and a sailor salt who mocks long words like hip and parallelogram. Another boy leading a dog by a rope responds that luck saves him from such words. Hope is praised as pleasant but unreliable in the brief reflection.
Renovation note urges homeowners to tint ceilings with Alabastine cement to prevent aging decorative schemes. It warns against cheap kalsomines and touts Alabastine as durable, rock based, cold water mixable, fitting all levels from ornate to plain, with dealers offering twelve tint choices and a free era pamphlet from the Grand Rapids company.
An Atlanta man fishing in Florida hooks a 40 pounder, then returns the catch to the water and reels it in again and again. He says he kept this up for a week, catching the same fish more than a hundred times daily, a mystery to onlookers at the Atlantic Constitution.
A farmer and stock-grower takes casluds of hogs to Chicago to sell to Armour & Company. While there he receives a letter from the Little bar in Youth's Companion noting a hog killed by Armour and a son’s affectionate sign off.
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