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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
6
A reader from Dimeannon, Pasay, recounts spring kidney trouble and how Dean's Kidney Pills restored her health after months of smothering spells and back pain. Ads mention Starch and household tips, with brief asides from periodical quips and notices.
A sailor on a warship is ordered to haul a very long towline. After straining with a 40 to 50 fathom line, he grumbles that the task seems endless and wonders if the other end has been cut. He jokes the bay is deep and mutters of possible foul play as taffrail work continues.
A Michigan woman recalls wasting $300 on drugs for six years to cure nervous indigestion. She credits Grape-Nuts for rapid relief after switching to the cereal, noting weight gain and health improvement. She warns against rich foods like industry and pork and values the simple, affordable remedy.
The Iowa supreme court ruled that state savings banks have statutory authority to endorse and guarantee commercial paper. The Corning bank case involved complex transfers and forged paper, with the court rejecting prior limits and affirming bank guaranty and indorsement duties amid a broader banking function scope.
Augustus Everett Willson, Kentucky governor, risks civil war by vetoing the McChord bill barring trusts from operating or using agents in the state. The tobacco trust demands high prices and offers to buy 15,000 hogsheads at 12 cents a pound, while farmers insist on 15 per hundredweight and staged purchase across years. The militia backs the farmers. tension rises as night riding suspects lurk among jurors and detectives.
John Mitchell retires as head of United State Workers of America after a decade, succeeded by Thomas L. Lewis. Mitchell plans health recovery and possibly editing a labor paper in Indianapolis to promote industrial peace, while Roosevelt weighs a federal investigator post in Panama.
The piece traces Senator Frank B. Gary's lineage to Beoth worthies and marks him as kin to Gen. Mark Gary, a noted Confederate cavalry leader. It details the Gary family's rise after Hampton's oligarchy, Tillman era shifts, and ongoing political influence, noting Gary's pledge not to run next year but possible backing for cousin John Gary Bryaos.
Alfred Deakin, premier of Australia, warmly welcomes the American fleet visit. He praises U.S. irrigation studies and notes Australia's water scarcity. Deakin supports restricted Asiatic entry, favors white settlement in the north, and admires the American federation model within the British empire.
An advertisement touts Syrup of Fige and Ellyir of Senna as a trusted laxative for personal and family use. It claims cleansing and relief without debility, notes pleasant action and physician approval, and urges buying only genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product from leading druggists.
A stylish woman questions a Chinaman about hair rats as she pays for a laundered shirt. The piece critiques starch use and promotes Defiance Starch. Also noted are nautical anecdotes, a joke about a family quarrel, and an advertising snippet for NOUR-PIE by D-Zerta Co.
Lena V. Henry of Norristown Ga recalls suffering female troubles and fearing surgery until Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her. The ad claims the remedy has helped thousands of women with displacements inflammation ulceration fibroids periodic pains backache and related symptoms and invites letters for advice.
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