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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1904
Page
3
Ola Ratan wanders north through the gloom and witnesses the teeming city. He sees exploited workers, child labor, and harsh laws that entrench poverty while the rich bask in splendor. The observer ponders humanity's failures and questions enlightenment and freedom as he contemplates the sordid profits of a callous society.
News of the labor world reports bursts of union action and craft strikes across the United States. Cigar makers form a Boston cooperative. the United Garment Workers grow to 60,000. conventions planned in Buffalo and St Louis. Miners, sheet metal and locomotive unions detail agreements, strikes, and wage battles amid broader push for open shops and trade schools.
A travel note contrasts Dutch life near Rotterdam with English sightlines and games of memory. The writer admires wooden shoes, gold caps, windmills, and the terraced markets. dogs pull carts while peasants work the dairy economy. Miscellaneous eccentricities and quips punctuate the travelogue.
Kirkland Illinois May 9 Mr Richard R Greenhow reports his rheumatism vanished after using fourteen boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He describes severe pain and inability to walk, then gradual relief and renewed health, claiming he feels better than in twenty five years. An unrelated note mentions alloys of iridium and osmium used to point gold pens.
A 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. The sponsors offer one hundred dollars to anyone failed to cure, with testimonials available. Also appears are jokes and social quips about pensions, betting, and Broadway theater gossip involving John Barrymore and Miss Barrymore.
A fragile 18 month old boy inhaled carbolic acid from a bottle during play. Doctors saved him after stomach burns, then he thrived after his grandmother recommended Grape-Nuts, with the child soon gaining color and appetite. The report blends this anecdote with a longer letter from Elias Keats about homesteading in Canada. The letter describes claims near Edmonton, crops, range grass, hay yields, and wildlife, and notes chinook winds, log housing, and fruit abundance along the Sturgeon River toward St Albert and Edmonton.
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