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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1909
Page
8
Fragmentary text from a 19th or early 20th century paper discusses patent starch products, social exchanges about money and marriage, a Cleveland Leader quote on letters, and assorted musings on virtue, thrift, and domestic life. It references era sayings and consumer goods with fragmented dialogue and ad-like asides.
Unscrambled letters show a Minneapolis woman praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing her 'female troubles' and restoring health within three months. The testimonial urges others to seek her help and writes to Lynn Massachusetts for advice, promising privacy.
In Des Moines Judge McHenry ruled that corporate stock cannot be taxed until the holder’s personal indebtedness is deducted. The decision, cited in a suit by Hawkeye Insurance stockowners, allows deductions from stock face value, reducing taxable amounts. The Hawkeye owners named include W. D. Skinner and H. R. Howell, with combined shares and debts detailed.
Labor Day plans shift from the traditional parade to an all day picnic in Des Moines on September 6. The Des Moines Trades and Labor assembly is arranging music and speeches to honor workers and promote the holiday's meaning.
Fred Tupper of Hartland Wisconsin, serving a five year forgery sentence since September, has spent under a year at Anamosa state reformatory and now requests parole. He wrote Rev C W McCord, the man he victimized after McCord befriended him, asking for assistance.
Pioneer dentist Dr A B Van Sickle dies suddenly at home in Marshalltown after breakfast and a newspaper read session. Death attributed to paralysis of the heart. His passing follows a long life as a local medical figure.
Mason City Iowa sees best prospects for a bumper sugar beet crop in years. Farmers anticipate high yields due to favorable growing conditions across the region.
Mrs Bert Appleby reports to police that her husband Appleby abducted their baby after a separation and disappeared. In Storm Lake Mrs Fred Burnett tried to kill herself with morphine, but doctors saved her.
The Farmers' Cooperative Creamery at Dows issued June milk payments totaling more than $11,000 to local farmers. The creamery, a strictly local concern with no skimming stations, is noted for its large cash circulation in a town the size of Dows. A new cement building and modern facilities were added last year to its plant.
Ackley boosters set Sauerkraut Day for September 29 with $184 in the treasury for a fall fete. Also reported are Polk county coal output surpassing 1.5 million tons in 1908 09, a Des Moines to Nebraska City all road study by St Paul and Des Moines railroad, and Iowa pension eligibility for long serving police and firemen under a new law.
Fort Dodge reports Mrs. Melissa Simons, born in Marshall county in 1941 to Iowa pioneers, died at her daughter’s home at 68. Des Moines notes George Garver, longtime Des Moines resident, died at Methodist hospital after illness since his wife’s death seven weeks earlier.
A Chicago editor recalls William Penny Howells joining a men’s society for woman suffrage. He notes Howells as a leading figure against boastful rhetoric and cites a Maine Fourth of July oration where Howells critiqued another speaker’s pride using a child’s rebuke of a hen and egg remark.
A mother recounts her two and a half year old daughter’s severe skin eruption on hips and legs. After two doctors failed, two weeks of Cuticura Remedies cured the condition in February. the child remained well at age fourteen. Then notes on tuberculosis among children in New York and Boston and nationwide mortality estimates, followed by brief ads and jokes.
A humorous exchange questions an aeronaut's garden choice and playfuly proposes an air plact as a whimsical solution. The brief dialogue mimics light newspaper whimsy and evokes old fashioned outdoor design chatter in a quirky, era-tinged voice.
A statement from the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis says over 2,500,000 of 17,000,000 U S school children were instructed this year on tuberculosis dangers and prevention methods. An estimated 1,000,000 more learned at exhibits or through organizations nationwide.
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