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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1909
Page
7
Fragmented chatter lists items and quotes from multiple ads and notices. Mentions Allen's Foot-Ease for sore feet and Pettit's Eye Salve, Spearmint flavor gum, Russ Blue for yellowed clothes, Wrigley's Spearmint, Dr. Pierce's Poles, and general proverbs. Tone reflects 19th century newspaper ads and light humor.
A period piece offers simple gift ideas and domestic recipes. Instructions cover crochet lace edging, jabots, napkins, doilies, home embroidery and machine stitched lace. Also included are Lucanian Eggs and Ginger Snape recipes with step by step layering, baking times and seasonings.
A mixed read from a historical page covers a beef stew method with slow simmering and pressing to serve cold, followed by advice on bed making. It extols a metal bed for hygiene and discusses mattress sections, sheet length, and washing to keep bedding clean and comfortable.
An incomplete excerpt suggests a witty remark from Puck magazine about timing and repartee. The garbled text hints at a playful aside on perception and memory, with the line about sting and returning thoughts the next day.
New York Oct 12 Fifteen years at hard labor in a Federal prison was upheld by the United States circuit court of appeals for misapplying funds of a national bank. The court sustained ten of 53 counts, allowing Morse to seek a writ of certiorari and continue efforts toward the Supreme Court.
Secretary Ballinger urged preservation of phosphate lands in the Rocky Mountain states and coal lands in Alaska via legislation. He called for restricting domestic use of fertilizer to aid American farms and preventing monopolization of coal deposits for naval purposes amid ongoing reclamation concerns. A separate dispatch reports 2000 to 3000 natives drowned near Yucatan in a recent hurricane.
Chicago markets show firm wheat with December at about 1.01 to 1.02 and May near 1.03. Corn weak with December around 0.60 to 0.64, oats heavy around 0.46, butter and eggs at mixed creamery and dairy quotes, potatoes from 41 to 43 cents, live poultry and fats listed. New York prices for flour and grain futures included with spot firm wheat and spot oats.
Omaha and Chicago reports show cattle prices active with gains up to 10 cents in Omaha. Native steers range 4.76 to 8.00, hogs mostly 7.06 to 7.70 with heavier buys at 7.75, and sheep and lambs steady to strong with yearlings at 4.05 to 6.25 and lambs around 6.25 to 7.05.
Mrs Rachel Ivie of Henrietta Texas credits Dean's Kidney Pills with ending fifteen years of kidney trouble that left her bedridden for two years and unable to walk without help. She says she’s now able to work like a healthy woman at nearly eighty and urges others to remember the name Doan's, sold for 60 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
A light exchange between a young guest and an old guest about mosquitoes in a room. The old man jokes he enjoys the noise, since it drowns out the glee club practicing on the piazza.
In Pittsburgh, W F Steese reports severe scalp scaling after typhoid fever led to major hair loss. After using two cuts of Cutcura Soap and almost a box of Cut urn Ointment his scalp cleared and hair thickened, despite prior doom. Potter Drug & Chem Co Boston notes. May 7 and 21 1908. Secret of Happiness quote from Adam Clark.
A dialogue touches on fashion and ownership as a purchaser and her husband dispute a north pole hat. The chat includes an advertisement tone for Wrigley Spearmint and a warning about a lemon of a pac h, plus jokes about a will reading and a silent man versus chatterbox. It mentions products from Russ Blue laundry soap and gun traps.
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