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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1917
Page
8
Gullible users urged to buy a 10 cent box of Gascarets promising to cleanse the bowel remove sour stomach and purge poison while you sleep. The ad claims relief from indigestion biliousness and foul gases with a gentle non griping effect suitable for children and adults.
Partial OCR text shows a quirky exchange with fashion papers and a young wife. The dialogue references rash papers and cooking walks, with a character named Helin confessing about a DIL and a cookie, suggesting a fragmentary social scene from a city page.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap for cleansing and Curfesen Ointment for healing. It touts daily use and offers free samples by postcard request addressed to Cuticura Dept. 1 Boston. Also mentions Garfield Tea for digestion and various medical claims with other products and testimonials.
Mr. George J. Barr of Liver, Manitoba, highlights seven sections of land near Saskatchewan as a bold investment. He cites potential yields, infrastructure details, and costs, noting past crop profits and plans to supply feed via pasture lands, seeking farmers ready to settle and work the land for market.
An early 20th century fragment discusses reducing meat intake for health and cost reasons. It mentions macaroni and spaghetti dishes and fashionable beauty ideas, highlighting prepared meals and everyday eating tips. The text is garbled but centers on diet and affordable cooking.
The readable lines show garbled names and phrases from an older text. No coherent event, person, or full place details emerge to form a distinct news item or report.
The ad claims Danderine will stop dandruff and hair loss within minutes and weeks of use. It promises new hair growth across the scalp, with hair becoming light, shiny, and abundant, urging readers to buy a 26 cent bottle from any store.
A Des Moines report outlines a Senate committee backed plan to eradicate bovine tuberculosis in cattle and hogs. It notes tuberculosis in swine and cattle costs Iowa farmers money, with estimates of losses reaching nearly 1.9 million dollars last year.
A town committee introduced a bill to broaden rail and telephone regulation, permitting the railroad commission to set rates for phone companies where possible. It would allow operation under existing licenses while barring new competing systems without local consent. Buena Vista wins a campus debate on tariffs and industrial disputes.
Reported injuries to George Collamar aged 55 and George Edenburn aged 27 in Padimeannt Park while carla was removed from a slide. A bystander, Kirkle, was hurt by a falling boulder during the streetcar cut. The event prompted council review in Hhills.
Heath Clodhnell Par Ley Steynolls of Gorrectionville, a mate at the soldiers home, died there after a short illness from chronic nephritis. Reynolds served in Company G, 147th Iowa Infantry. Burial planned in Corrertionville.
Government fishmen report many fish dying this winter in the Mississippi River due to unusually thick ice. Stations along the stream between Hare and Winona note the harmful conditions impacting local aquatic life.
Des Moines Iowa House approves a bill by Representative Lake Woodbury county making it a misdemeanor to use personal board trains with events to avoid paying carfare.
Harald Hutcheson of Ales la hid a marriage to Miss Lene AMMstand of Story City on January 26, 1916. A note from Miss Lulu Davis of Duster Cy alleges an engagement to a man with the same name. Clerk Tollinger reports Dexter City communications about a perceived marriage, while county board reviews contracts for 26 bridges and culverts in Cherokee county totaling about 117,863 dollars.
Monthly report details include data on devices served and destroyed totaling 36, coastal prosecutions, unsuccessful prosecutions, fines collected, and total costs. Specific figures indicate month totals for fines and costs, with amounts and categories listed.
Gheorge Nevries, 27, died instantly after being struck by a passenger train at a crossing near Chisago, Milwaukee and St. Paul lines. He had just left a wedding and was returning home from a woods gathering with a relative. The horse and carriage were demolished in the impact.
A jury awarded Alvi A. Jastrins $5,000 in damages after a motorcycle collision on Dur Iaphda Street near Tiarilwey and Light Company. The defendant Mercury Motor Company faced the suit filed over injuries from the incident at the scene.
A fragment notes land salting at 325 per acre in Marshilltown Whit with a county equal amount paid by Dessa Mo Bergaxon a farmer east of its city for joining the area on August 8. The text mentions a textbook bill passing and references free textbooks voting in a school district by petition.
George S. Waite aged 43 and Mee Ames 1 Waite 40 of Massens were married in Creston in a ceremony described as a brother in law union with the bride's brother.
A Morris resident Matin Prank Smith has purchased the Grand Central Hotel in LeMars. Details about the sale and any effects on operations are not fully clear in the report.
The report notes Buena Vista College won a debate against Klaworth and repeated the victory from last year. A new Presbyterian church contract at Shenandoah was let to FR Lueder of Cherikea for 26062 with work starting April 1. Storm Lake council passes resolutions to pave eight miles across 18 blocks.
A famous actress shares a method involving Barkha Compound and glycerine to darken faded gray hair. Directions guide users through mixing steps and application in a dome at a Title vest, promising gradual color without scalp staining or greasiness.
The ad explains uric acid is normal in small amounts but excess from meat and fermentation harms kidneys. It claims weak kidneys fail to filter poisons, causing backache and fatigue, and prescribes Anuric three times daily as a powerful dissolver of uric acid per Dr. Pierce of Buffalo New York.
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