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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1897
Page
8
Ad claims Tyse Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters offer a valuable franchise in medical science for digestion relief. It touts uses against dyspepsia rheumatism fever nervousness and general stomach issues, urging readers to obtain the product for lasting health benefits.
In Philadelphia the resident and his visiting collaborator discuss delaying their job as it is nearly half past nine and the locals have not yet gone to bed, reflecting a late night scene from the periodical.
A description of The Youths Companion Souvenir Calender for 1898 with color copies embossed in gold. New subscribers receive the calendar at no extra charge and the paper is mailed free weekly from subscription start through January 1898 and for a year to January 1899. Includes illustrated prospectus and free sample copies.
An old advertisement column praises Cascarets candy tablets as a meritorious, repeat-purchase product with a money-back guarantee for constipation. It also reports Brooklyn’s assessed valuation at 90 percent of actual value versus New York’s 55 percent, noting a lower debt-to-valuation ratio in Brooklyn.
An advertisement touts Allen’s Foot-Ease powder as a cure for painful swollen and smarting feet, bunions, and sweating. It claims shoes feel easier and promises relief from heat and fatigue. Sold by druggists and shoe stores, 25 cents, with a free trial offer by mail to Allen C. Olmsted, Le Roy, NY.
A fragmented clipping describes gears and heels placed midstream to capture fish, with reels and troughs along riverbanks. The text also includes ad phrases and stray lines about cures for colds, a penny press opinion on Piso’s Cure, and a note on proportion of married women in Hogland versus Germany, suggesting a miscellany page.
A telegraph operator narrates a peculiar night shift incident with a hungry roach that visited his desk each midnight. When lunch vanished due to work, the roach dragged the lunch parcel toward the operator’s key, prompting the operator to share a lighthearted feeding as a reward for the creature’s persistence.
The ad explains that not the world ending, but sensations like sciatica cause sharp thigh pains. It urges using St Jacobs Oil at the first twinge to ease the nerve, prevent development, and cure the pain at any stage. The focus is on rapid relief and overall efficacy for sciatic pain.
The late Gov Henry A Wise of Virginia received from admirers more than two dozen dragoon pistols and Colts revolvers said to have been taken from John Brown in the engine house. Few West Virginia homes lack fire pistol and dagger taken from the man whose body lies moldering in the ground. A Washington dealer built a block of houses with monkey made by selling pistols and pikes from Brown. supply remains ample for demand.
The case of Fenton, regularly incorporated for over twenty years, has under 100 residents living about fifteen miles south of St. Louis. It is a settlement of wealthy businessmen near St. Louis and maintains a full slate of officials, none of whom draws a salary.
An eminent physician questions female truthfulness to doctors and cites female correspondence with Mrs. Pinkham as revealing true conditions. The letter from Grace B. Saune Bust of Pratt Kansas praises Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after relief from uterine distress and prolonged suffering.
In 1861 at Jim Lyons barn near St. Louis a Knights of the Golden Circle circle debated a plan to kidnap Union general Ulysses S. Grant at home in Dent’s—Abner Taylor opposed the plot, arguing Grant was a friend and should not be abducted. The group halted the plan and Grant later earned the nickname Unconditional Surrender Grant after Donelson.
A Confederate major named Thomas Williams owned a rooster called General who received two military honors and a tombstone. Williams acquired the bird after visiting a house for food before the Battle of Culpeper, as recounted in a fragment of a historical account.
Georgia Chicken’s tombstone tale recalls a wounded veteran named General who led battles from a tree limb. After the Civil War he lived quietly on a farm, craving the theater of war and bugle calls. He died and was buried with military honors, his grave marked by two tombstones.
A veteran recalls a Civil War tale of a woman defending her home near Wild Cat Mountain. After Confederates overran her place, she seized two muskets, forced eleven intruders to surrender, and shot one man dead when he moved. The rest fled to the Dafon camp, terrorized by her resolve.
The Cayade’s Yekou county notes a lake near Dawson City that never freezes even in winter. Lake Selawik is sixty miles long and wide, with outflow tied to warm waters, creating a winter Mecca for fish. The Victoria Colonist cites Father Tosi, Jesuit, as noting its discovery.
Frank J. Cheney and partners swear as senior partners of FJ Cheney Co in Toledo Ohio to pay a sum to descend every case from amunition claimed and cure by Barrs Catan Cone. A dated sworn statement before a notary notes December 6 163. An early medicine advertisement for Cheney Co Toledo selling a cure all product with testimonials offered.
Reports recount a 120 foot steamer colliding with a wash-house near Pont Arcole in Paris. The vessel was run aground to prevent foundering, drawing a crowd and creating an alarming scene in the river port.
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