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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1898
Page
6
The British Weekly reports great indignation at the sale of Payn's books and manuscripts. Prices fell far below value with Lost Sir Massingbred manuscript selling for three guineas and about twenty other manuscripts averaging around a shilling each. The note reflects on Payn as a devoted husband who supported his family.
The article explores how field music using trumpets drums and bugles emerged with armies. It notes military and field music differ with regimental marches versus battlefield signaling. It suggests signals likely developed gradually due to the trumpet drum and voice reach on noise-filled battlefields.
A dialog from the Indianapolis Journal discusses a rough idea for a play involving a Spanish spy and a military theme. It imagines a character who rises to applause, but the narrator hints an ending where the spy is killed as the first note of the war prices era.
Mrs Budd of Patchedquus New York praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for easing dread ful headaches chills weakness and stomach and back pains. She claims sleep returns and overall health improves. She recommends the product to all women she knows.
A fragment notes a character asking James why he is leaving as she sits at the end of act two and heads out to read war bulletins in the Chicago Tribune.
The document cites a mortality rate of 11 percent for the Tuian army, totaling 315,000, with 3,448 killed in battle or from wounds, 186,216 dying of disease, and many others with unknown causes. Hospital data show 5,049,148 treated cases with notable deaths from fever, typhoid, measles, and other illnesses. It blames Congress and War Department for mismanagement, notes plans for a war inquiry board, and mentions Admiral Schley and presidential discussions on responsibility.
A collection of garbled 1918 era captions and notes from various papers mentioning figures like Dewey Sampson and Admiral Sching with errant spellings. The items reference triumphs postwar, ceremonies in Porto Rico, a Topeka carnival queen search, schoolteacher shortages, and scenes of cremation in Santiago, all in fragmentary form.
The piece muses on how people feel young inside while aging outwardly due to appearances and social norms. It notes that public opinion hastens changes in behavior, making adults seem older than their inner selves, though true aging remains only partial as infirmities and norms sway outward looks.
A clipped Chicago Post quotation explores gender roles and hypothetical scenarios in a skeptical exchange. The speakers debate the value and feasibility of romance if one party were different, noting the fragility of social constraints and the unpredictability of desire.
The Chitago Times-Herald profiles AL Schiffender of 161 Sedgwick Street Chicago, a Civil War veteran who enlisted in 1862 with the Twenty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteers. He fought in the Shenandoah Valley and Gettysburg was wounded, captured, exchanged, and later served under General Sherman. After hospital and home, he found relief using Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
A Chicago Record snippet shows a tense exchange where one person rejects marriage yet vows not to fear a change of mind. The dialogue highlights stubborn resolve and emotional stakes in a domestic dispute framing.
American Game Pictures for Decoration of Homes offers four porcelain plaque prints by Moville. J C Hubinger Bros Co will distribute these free to customers purchasing three ten-cent Elastic Starch packages, only through grocers, until October 1.
A humorous snippet depicts Singleton misplacing a wedding ring by noting a pulse and tongue, a tailor swallowing a needle and dying from inflammation, and a promotion of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters along with Allen’s Foot Ease advertised as a universal remedy. The sketch mockingly blends human folly with product pitches and old time health quackery.
A collage of quotes and patent medicine pitches appears framed by partial lines from letters and poems. Notable items include Hall's Cararrh Cure at 19 cents, Dizzy lines about Atbara and the Dervishes, Pisots Cure for Consumption, Glenn’s Sulphur Soap, Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, and a call for health samples from Ryan Chen New York.
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