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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1898
Page
6
The new head of the Mormon Church is 84 and a graduate of Oberlin College. The piece notes his age and educational background, highlighting leadership in a New Era within the church.
A collage of 19th century advertisements promotes Cascarets as blood purifiers and beauty aids, Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials, No-To-Bac nicotine fix, nursery stock catalogs, and quirky quips about health and marriage, reflecting a noisy medical and consumer culture.
Frank Long of Lennon Michigan swore in 1806 that after muscular rheumatism and lumbago left him crippled he found relief by using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He credits the pills with restoring his ability to walk and preventing a return of pain.
Hog cholera is caused by indigestion and can be prevented by feeding cooked feed. Readers are advised to write Empire Mfg Co for the WEED COOKER catalogue. Cookers save at least one third of feed, keep stock healthy, and pay for themselves in a week.
Antique promotional text claiming No-To-Bac cures tobacco habit with phrases about life vigor and stamina. Mentions druggists and a Starling Remedy Co address in New York. Contains garbled, out-of-context sentences about a baby’s mother and dialect.
A fragmented ad fragment promotes a large horticultural business in Shaw offering trees fruit-trees and shrubs including palms orchids and ferns. The ad advocates Keith's Enamel Starch for laundry finishing and mentions electric light as a modern improvement. It includes miscellaneous quotes and product endorsements from the era.
West Lynne on the Red River near the Canadian border, once a 5000 resident boom town, is now tenantless with brick blocks and a railroad bridge unused. The project drew Chicago agent James Murray and investors who sold plots at high prices while construction ran ahead of demand, leaving a ruined, empty city and an $85,000 brick block decaying in Emerson across the river.
Engineers judge machine condition by running tone. Each engine has a distinct sound, familiar to the engineer, and any deviation prompts immediate investigation even if the exact cause is unknown. The trained ear detects subtle changes that signal trouble in stationary or locomotive machinery.
A tomb near Rome reveals a woman's skeleton with gold teeth. An American dentist reports Indian skulls with flint teeth and peg-in teeth, illustrating ancient dental ingenuity. Tommy groans about jam in a pantry scene closes the excerpt.
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