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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1910
Page
2
Colfax Washington shooter Mr A Ireland Rifla Shot holds four world records and claims he never lost a match until kidney trouble blurred vision and caused back and head pain. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills for relief after trying multiple remedies. Wester-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY markets the treatment at 40 cents.
A humorous dialogue notes Mrs. Hare recalling her son briefly held the post of messenger boy last week, a position he kept for just one day.
Mrs A J Cochran reports her six year old son suffered severe eczema for two years until using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills. She states rapid improvement within hours and lasting cure into his seventeenth year. She also recommends the remedies for another child with success. Philadelphia October 20 1909.
A visitor questions a stage setting described as a hospitel. The farm play features a milkmaid in an antisemic apron and a farm boxy in gloves. Father and son wrestle with a manuscript as they prepare the milking scene amid comic misreadings.
Delancey Nicoll, a lawyer, praises neat dress and recalls remarking that a Westerner arrived without luggage. He quips that the man might have hidden items in the large bags sewn into the knees of his trousers.
An old advertisement promotes Dr Martel's Female Pills as a seventeen year standard cure for women ailments. It claims quick permanent results and lists sale at drug stores in New York. The dialogue reference hints at a staged playlet or joke about the pills.
In a snowy January morning Thomas Gordon confesses a troubled path to Nan Eryerson while hidden in the mountains. Nan fears discovery as three men search the spring pipe, and Silas Crafts confronts Thomas about faith and reputation, warning of Beersheba’s doors closing.
The article compares U S living standards with European nations noting high home ownership in the U S, strong savings deposits, and lower pauper rates, while highlighting education spending, public charity, diet quality, and meat consumption figures from Mulhall and Voit standards. It argues against a permanent diet decline and urges reform to avert poverty and preserve national vitality.
A survey of early 20th century innovations and crops notes include high farm ownership in Canada, horse and sheep feed ratios, French coal output, and new tools. Inventors patent a putty knife with scraper, a combined pickle fork and tongs, a cerium iron alloy spark lighter, and a water cooled fan. A Kansas woman patents a ventilated cooling fan, while experiments in dirigible aviation and automatic animal disinfectors appear alongside a new term caloriculture replacing soil cultivation.
A sanitary drinking fountain design uses a lever to expose a mouthpiece and flush it as water flows, avoiding hand contact. Dr. L. O. Howard warns mosquitoes cause huge economic losses, lowering land values and dairy yields. The piece also mentions color moving pictures via Friese-Green filters and a celluloid ribbon system for capture and projection.
A Kentucky man has designed a bed that can raise or lower the head to any position for patient comfort. The bed uses a wheel and gear to tilt the head, a crossbar suspension, and a T shaped leg bar to prevent sliding, offering relief for the bed ridden and hospital patients nationwide.
A New York inventor creates a button watch concealed in a coat sleeve. The hollow case resembles a standard button with the dial attached by a strong shank. The device can fit into a cuff pocket or be worn openly on the sleeve, indistinguishable from ordinary buttons.
A miscellaneous collection of wit and short anecdotes about census takers, a senator’s health claim, a whale tale, and social observations. Humorous exchanges and proverbs appear in rough dialogue, reflecting everyday curiosities and tensions of the era.
A wind guide from Germany based on forty nine stations over about twenty one years aids airship navigation. It lists seasonal wind directions and speeds to indicate ideal ascent times, sheds, and ports. The data mark Friedrichshafen as stormy for airship handling, while Berlin Cassel Ceile show fewer severe days.
Educational films now include chemical demonstrations such as electrolysis of water and the action of acids on metals. The display shows test tubes enlarged and clearly explained. A graphic but educational fly documentary shows life cycles, while other clips display acrobatic feats and odd contortions.
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