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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1901
Page
4
A veteran recalls the morning after the second battle of Manassas. A New York Zouave unit burned with color, perished on a hill, and one dying soldier passed his purple fez to a comrade as a final tribute. The giver chose to endure to death rather than wait for surgeons.
An advertising notice extols a grand biographical art book with twenty four large photo gravure plates indorsed by presidential families. Printed on heavy plate paper in two colors, designed by Tiffany, it promises rapid sales and large profits in Pennsylvania and beyond.
An assortment of 19th century tonics and patent medicines praise cures for digestion, liver, coughs, and weakness. ads tout Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets, Dr King’s New Discovery, Arica Salve, and Electric Bitters with testimonials of sufferers found relief and health.
A fragment cites a promotion for Rocky Mountain Tea as a shortcut to grace and beauty ending with an attributed note from H. H. Pimber. The text suggests a sensational claim about a neck wig gle and nightly head movements to enhance appearance.
An editor laments a printer error that misidentified Miss Ruby McConnell as owning an elegant new black beard, in a corrected note within the Spiketown Tribune. The issue references district school teaching at the Dis trict No 5 schoolhouse and a misprint apology to the estimable young teacher. Also listed is an ad for a registered Shorthorn bull for sale near Rock Valley.
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