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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1917
Page
6
A vintage advertisement touts Knowlton's Danderine as a cure for dandruff and thinning hair. It claims the product revives luster, strength, and fullness after use, with new downy hair appearing within weeks.
Lieut. Col. Sir John Collie urges a farm colony in the country to treat war wounded men haunted by fear of re conscription and epilepsy. He notes nerve damage from trench warfare and hysteroepilepsy in veterans, prompting plans for a home for incurables.
In a crowded room of girls in pink dresses, a teacher tests coin knowledge. A distracted pupil focuses on a sparrow at the window and answers heads when shown a half dollar, prompting the sudden lesson moment.
President W A Jessup's request for an infantry unit at Iowa State College has been approved with full equipment supply. Other items include state history society activity, Rock Island arsenal security upgrades, and winter conditions across towns like Montpelier and Postville. Local sales, farm leases, and rail dairy train tours are noted alongside politics on city government, naturalization, and legal sentences in Fort Madison and Council Bluffs.
A historical note explains a diamond test: expose to electric light, rub on wood or metal, then place in darkness to see glow. True diamonds glow. fake stones do not. The piece also includes a brief anecdote about luck and a medicine advertisement mentioning Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
Vermont's oldest marble quarry, opened about 1795, remains operational and profitable amid changing times. The fragment also recalls social musings on city life and relationship dynamics with a touch of literary quotation.
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