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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1898
Page
8
A mixed page reads like a local oddities column with dialogue on a picnic and morale effects. It promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Allen’s Foot Ease as popular remedies, and includes brief notes on Arctic garments and a quip about restraint in choosing when to act.
A historical note in Modern Society recounts a pattern of misfortune befalling royal couples and high nobles who traveled to Jerusalem together. It cites Archduke Charles Louis of Austria, Crown Prince and Princess of Austria, Princess Charlotte of Berlin, Grand Duke Sergius of Russia, and others, contrasting them with those who traveled alone and avoided disaster.
In New York a roof garden entertainment featured a popular impersonator clad as General Miles Admiral Dewey and Colonel Roosevelt. A wounded Rough Rider in the audience was paraded to the platform. the crowd roared with a war whoop and pressed him to speak, though his speech was not possible.
A Boston man asks a neighbor about his brother who went to the Klondike. The reply says he is “struck tuck” and has found a place to get baked beans, a lighthearted exchange implying a modest discovery rather than gold.
The Cleveland Leader notes a Spanish firm won the contract to transport prisoners captured by Shafter, defeating all competitors in the bidding. The report marks a notable early victory for Spain in the context of the referenced enterprise.
A terse remark on people who complain about dull times and illness. The writer notes that discussing illness tires others and that laziness or reluctance to engage can fuel such complaints. The passage highlights attitudes toward complaint and fatigue in social discourse.
A compact reflection on valued knowledge. contrasts thorough study for a diploma with the living craft of a young mechanic who masters details, discovers prints, and adds personal skill, possibly yielding a new invention or finer finish. Includes satirical snippets and notices from periodicals.
A New York Times reader recalls medieval castles along the Rhine and Moselle. The piece contrasts harsh past women’s lives with modern improvements, describing castle life, raids, and a noblewoman seen riding away, framed by a riverboat view and repaired cliffside estates.
A dangerous elephant was kept alive with alcohol infused carrots and arsenic laced buns. A doctor tried to poison it with prussic acid, passed out, another physician saved him, and after three hours the beast finally died from the poison effects.
A rector near Lowestoft denounces football as a devilish lure drawing youths from prayer and grace. The Westminster Gazette is cited. The exchange hints at domestic quirks about housekeeping comparisons and a humorous line about birds nests and hats.
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