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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1901
Page
4
A long anecdotal story recounts how Lord Kitchener learned the vernacular to uncover spies in a Khartum camp. Three captured spies resisted interrogation until the sirdar, in disguise, revealed all. The tale ends with a humorous classroom exchange about a misheard phrase.
In a Washington Post vignette two women discuss baby clothing as a saleswoman offers expensive knits. A tired buyer is shown cheaper options after a deception about marked down shirts. The piece contrasts wealth and need with a note on depot grounds decorating.
A fragmented clipping lists various patent medicines and endorsements from readers. It mentions Dr King s New Discovery for consumption and coughs, Electric Bitters for kidney and nervous problems, Chamberlain s Cough Remedy, Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and Chamberlain s Stomach and Liver Tablets. Also notes free samples and local druggists Knapp & Rosek Valley Iowa and Rock Valley Iowa.
A collage of punchy quotes and jokes from Chicago papers mentions debt, love, and social snubs. It highlights Buckten's arnica salve claims and a Drake style health ad for Dr King’s Life Pills plus a heartfelt endorsement of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy by Prof Roxa Tyler.
A distressed speaker notes a baby once plump with dimples now thin and hollow. The mother fails to recognize the cause, blaming either the feeding or the mill as the child starves. The text laments the loss of fat, color, and comfort in the child's body.
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