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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
3
Rome correspondent of the London Pall Mall Gazette recounts Pope Pius X pricking his finger while writing at his desk. A secretary tended the cut with disinfectant and a doctor visit was discussed, but the pope refused press attention, joking that a pen-prick could not make him a baby during a commemoration of his predecessor.
An Iowa State Fair feature list touts the fifty-sixth annual live stock industrial and amusement exposition on 266 acres. Highlighted are 400 horses 3000 hogs and 500 cattle plus a Kuabenshue airship flight from Aug 27 daily airship exhibitions and a Liberty band. The event runs Aug 24 through Aug 27 with veterans free on Old Soldier's Day and extensive entertainment including vaudeville and fireworks.
Captain Edwin P. Worthen keeper of Highland life-saving station near Highland Light on Cape Cod has served 34 years without injury. He recalls the Christmas night 1872 wreck of the Francis and another later stranding of the Peruvian, where 28 seamen perished and his crew of volunteers saved 14 men from the Francis.
The 19 year old heir August Wilhelm Henry Gonthier Victor von Hohenzollern may enroll at Harvard if Kaiser Wilhelm’s plans proceed. He is finishing studies in Bonn with 18 months left, then will join Harvard. He is a social dancer and holds ranks in the German Guards and the Black Eagle order.
New York reports a proposed Golden Gate memorial in Golden Gate Park to honor San Francisco disaster victims. Kahne Beveridge sculpts a young woman weeping against a closed Gothic door in tinted marble with a golden bronze door, modeled on Baroness Ray von Wrade.
In a refined boarding house a punctual English baronet skips dinner when his pills vanish. A new guest, Miss Brown, discovers the missing pills and restores the meal with deft help from the baronet. He forgives the servant, admiring her cleverness as she reveals a second secret.
The New England Lime company of Winstead Conn asserts it first used gas as fuel for lime burning. Gas is said to be a clean, reliable substitute for wood, increasing heat and kiln capacity. Daily output per kiln rose from 0 to 100 barrels, totaling 700 barrels daily.
An early 20th century recruitment notice invites thousands of laborers to harvest crops across Minnesota and the Dakotas. It advertises rail fare from Minneapolis to St. Louis points, daily tickets August 1–31, 1906, and wages from 1.75 to 3.00 dollars per day including board. A. B. Cutts is listed for inquiries.
An elderly patient from Wharton describes severe kidney pain and weakness improved after eight boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills. She reports restored strength, ambition, and health, with the medicine sold by dealers for 60 cents, and notes a Buffalo distributor. Also included is a parable about a rabbi and a note on travel by Grand Trunk Railway to Niagara Falls and beyond with contact for tourist publications.
A Dallas county man attempted suicide by hanging with a blind bridle. his wife found him in the barn and he claimed he would have gone to heaven. She retorted about him running on a blind bridle in heaven. Also notes on prehistoric monsters and mammal size, Africa missionary stations numbering about 1,000 principal and 5,000 sub stations, and a patent syrup claim for children.
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