WA News highlights deaths and fires across Iowa
The report covers multiple incidents including serious poisoning cases near Coins off Blutfe, a fatal fall from a Milwaukee line near Gault Missouri, a $1500 fire at Mason City endangering a block, a barn fire at George Mitchell farm with livestock losses, and a prior suicide in Wayne County. It notes legal outcomes, a bank failure impact, turtle catching on the Mississippi near Clinton, and other local curiosities.
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Nilliam Higgins
Iitle
Aye
Ha Sisk
Ottumwa Brakemad
Actrein
Milwaukee
Gault
Chillicothe
Mason City
W. F. Pillsbury
George Mitchell
Charles City
Mitchell
J. L. Coleman
Sidney
Misa Costa Carne
Tabor
Coleman
Missouri
Misalasippi
Clinton
New York
Manson Gate
Dames
GE. Haney
Wayne County
Acather
Thomas Miller
B Sewal
Monroe County
Sewal
Farmers and Traders’ Bank of
Seymour
Inble
Marion Hedgespeth
A District
Cornel Blitts Storage Company
Hedgespeth
Pinkerton Detective Association
Sly Wilson
Omaha
Colorado
Leslie
Nicholas Grieveld Inger
Fort Dodge
Doan's Kidney Pills touted for backache relief
A Staunton Virginia resident, Mrs. James M. Long, recounts Doan's Kidney Pills curing her back pain and urinary troubles in 1903 and again confirms no kidney issues since 1907. The ad notes 60 cents a box through Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y and local sellers. The second fragment is a humorous railway of dialect about Abe and a minister over a six dollar wedding paid to imitate white folks.
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Doan
James M. Long
Augusta Bt
Staunton
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Calicura Remedies Help Arkansas Woman Heal Eczema
Mrs David Brown of Locke Ark describes a two year eczema battle with failed relief from two doctors. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills three times she slept well and ankles healed quickly with no recurrence over the past year. May 18 and July 78 1807.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Brown
Locke, Ark
Overtures and Advertisements in a Midwestern Page
A fragmented page mix of epigrams, product claims, and mock dialogue. It includes medical patent cure notices for cure of Cavauum with The NAO, claims about Garfield Tea, quotes from Hawthorne and J. R. Miller, and scattered ad-like lines about hair and “Dutch Wind Doll.” Names include FRANK J. CHENEY and J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo references, plus assorted speakers.
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Toteno
Lugay Coury
Frane J. Curvry
P. J. Cumway & Co
Toledo
Soldiem
Gavausn
Frank J. Cheney
Wigleason
J. Cheney & CO
Toleae
Drusgista
Care of the Kitchen Walls and Pantry
Advice urges thorough cleaning and proper coatings for kitchen walls and pantries. Emphasizes light tinted walls for stain visibility, discard glue and hot water mixtures, alabastine finishes, annual recoat, and dense pantry walls with putty to seal ant holes and deter pests.
Blues in a Barbershop Echoes the Old Philosopher
Louie Jones of the Grand opera house and his brother, a colored man, share gloom and weather talk in a barber shop. After long silences, the elder sighs and quotes a philosopher: If you ain't got nothing, now's your time, prompting Tonesia to ponder who the philosopher was.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Benham
Benham
Hawthorne
Louie Jones
Grand Opera House
Requicacat poem note from the Houston Post
A playful poem line from the Houston Post recalls a Guam tale of a young lady who vows to dive for a lark as the sea calms and a shark threatens, followed by a cue to sing the th Psalm.
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Guam
Houston Post
Methodist Episcopal Property Worth, Debts Listed
The Methodist Episcopal church property in the country is valued at about 187 million dollars with an outstanding indebtedness of 12.127 million. An advertisement promotes Brown's Bronchial Troches for sore throat relief and offers a free watch fob for sending five dollars in hides or fur traps to Aarann Hide & RGO, Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Episcopal Church
Arann Hide & Rgo
Minneapolis
Boots Too Big For Walking In A South African Camp
An army officer in a native district gifts a Kaffir boy a pair of boots, the first he has owned. The boy adores them at first but later keeps them for bed, explaining they are too slow for walking and running, and thus not suitable for daily use.
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South Africa
London
First Advertiser Mystery in History of Advertising
An author ponders who first manufactured to advertise and jokes the hen might be the culprit. The excerpt reflects on proving points by selective presentation and hints at dubious cures and proverbs, ending with a string of garbled ad like lines and quotes.
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