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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1907
Page
6
A garbled courtroom exchange shows a lawyer asking a witness about belief in dreams and truth following a tense line of questions. The witness confirms some instances where predictions or outcomes occur, mentioning a prior debt and emotional tension.
Maidstone Saskatchewan February 4 1907 Mrs Ed Troupe writes to Broughton a Canadian government agent in Chicago praising Canada as ahead of Illinois Iowa and Michigan. She and her husband would like her father and brother to move there and send them information about Canada. The letter notes mild winter with few storms and high satisfaction with the country. A London bridge vehicle census recorded 125272 vehicles over seven days. GarGeld Tea advertised as a remedy for liver issues and indigestion.
A fragment from a historical note recalls a Parisienne toy dressed in Louis XIV style housed among revolutionary relics in Independence Hall Philadelphia. It notes Paris dolls once dominated the early toy trade, with Paris shipments to New York reaching large sums, while France struggles to compete with Germany in cheaper toys.
A garbled excerpt mentions Ekubisinze Yi In with Kedpep Lou and Mr Peatherton, noting poor appearance. It references Mr Feathertop-Whyr and Miss Redpep at a Swellham reception where a waltz with Miss Flutterby is implied.
A Philadelphia mother uses Grape-Nuts to aid her stomach trouble and to help her husband and three children. She reports eight years of relief from congestion and pain, noting improved strength and appetite. The family, including two adults and three children ages 3 and 9, all favor Grape-Nuts for breakfast.
Audrey Maxse, a gifted resident of Broadborough asylum, is sent to live with a family after being chosen by Mayor and matron interests. Jean Thwaite, her friend, remains hopeful for a future beyond the gloomy walls as Audrey faces unfamiliar travel and a strangers aid on her journey to Mountberry.
The report notes mild weather boosting trade and seasonal gains with strong retail comparisons to last year. It cites firming prices for pig iron and metals, steady credit conditions, high freight activity, rising lumber receipts, and fewer bankruptcies in the Chicago district.
In Toledo a restaurant proprietor scolds a waiter for mixing up orders with sirloin served as porterhouse. The boss relents after addressing the lapse. The incident highlights service errors in a tavern setting.
Reading from a Philadelphia Ledger snippet two neighbors argue about a neighbor’s son and cats while a parent defends the boy as “cream of our family” amid swerving remarks. A friend notes a daughter studying French and language barriers arise in the chat.
A fragment cites a Baltimore American quote about a car owner avoiding blame, with quips from two legislators debating a vacuum company charter amid a muddled exchange. The passage hints at politics and satire in a 19th or early 20th century issue.
Trade has improved all around as favorable weather and holiday demand trim stock and boost money, with country merchants in markets and heavier wear easing. Manufacturing remains active, iron and steel finish lines brisk though pig iron quiet, while Wall Street notes 194 U.S. failures for the week ending Feb 28, versus prior years, and 13 Canadian failures.
Daily price ranges from Chicago to New York for cattle hogs sheep and grains. Notable figures include Chicago hogs 3600 to 7.00 and butter creamery 32 to 45 cents, New York corn 2 red Sic to S2e, oats natural white 12e to side, and wheat No 2 red Sic to S2e.
The New York Wock Company buildings were destroyed with a loss of 250000 dollars. The Wheaton seminars in Massachusetts were closed due to scarlet fever among the girls. The Fischer Foundry and Machine Company plant at Ford City burned to the ground with an estimated loss of 200000 dollars. A Black man named Hoffaker was hanged at Foldsville Kentucky after a murder in the penitentiary. Wittenberg College in Springfield Ohio will receive 91000 from a sale donation proceeds at Tecumseh Nebraska. Edwin Cramp resigned as vice president of the Cramp Ship and Engine Building Company leaving no Cramp family member in the firm.
A dense timeline listing battles, charters, inaugurations, disasters, and political milestones. It covers Charles of Anjou’s era, colonial transfers, U.S. constitutional developments, Napoleonic events, statehood milestones, maritime disasters, and late 19th to early 20th century political changes. It names many personages, places, and institutions across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Notes report 36000 union members in Spain. Mrs Drusilla Morrell of Marlborough born 1804 died in Brooklyn at 102. William Lynch, Canton lawyer and McKinley Memorial trustee, died in Lisbon Ohio. Other items note a Wooster rector raising 175000 toward a 125000 endowment, a Kansas City murder verdict, Baltimore steel plant fire, Frick Coke wage hike, and Count Creighton will with large bequests to relatives and to education and charities.
Letter from Mrs. Sarah Ramsey of St John Street Litchfield Ill recounts relief from prolonged stomach pain dizziness and weakness after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She credits improved health and weight gain to the remedy sold by druggists or sent postpaid by Williams Medicine Company Schenectady NY. A free booklet Plain Talks to Women is available.
A condemned horse thief faces a final moment as regulators threaten to string him up. He remarks that he has nothing personal to offer yet notes the solemn occasion and mentions the child Liner bill in a brief, restrained exchange with his audience.
Abs Crossway notes that the new neighbors exhibit nothing peculiar aside from borrowing a step ladder and a jack hammer and letting their children play in the yard.
The case concerns Dr. Pierce suing the Ladies Home Journal for libel over a May 1904 piece accusing his Favorite Prescription of containing alcohol and harmful ingredients. The suit seeks damages while a retractation appeared in small type later.
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