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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1906
Page
3
An understated notice promotes a bowel laxative product described as effective for relief. It highlights accessibility and availability in local stores, urging readers to try the remedy. The ad emphasizes quick action and consumer trust within the period’s shopping landscape.
Illinois Central Railroad holds its annual stockholders meeting in Chicago on October 17. Personal attendance of individual holders is desired and encouraged.
Public notice states the regular annual meeting of Allinoe Central Railroad Company stockholders will be at the company office in Illinois on Wednesday October 17 1806 at noon. To attend, holders of one or more shares registered by Sept 24 1006 and of full age receive a ticket enabling travel free over the company lines from the nearest station to their registered address.
James S. Sheean, chairman, urges every Republican to work with the Republican National Congressional Committee to elect a Republican Congress. He argues the campaign should center on Theodore Roosevelt’s record and personality, funded by $1 subscriptions, with the Text Book and campaign documents mailed to subscribers.
In a Houston Post poem reprint I. M. Lewis imagines shedding wealth for a simpler life. He longs to be lean again, to wear overalls and a ragged hat, to feel free in a beechen shade. He recalls a mother’s prayers, a dear old farm, a boyish line in a field, and a life of honest labor and quiet contentment.
In a West Exchange tale, Miss Maher, a young operator, becomes entangled in a web of calls between Sutter 8691 and suitors Red 1001 and Main 45. Her jealousy grows as she overhears schemes for outings and a hinted romance, culminating in her covertly linking the lines to expose a gossiping triangle and a planned meeting.
A woman who secures a social position discovers she no longer needs it and abandons influence. This Chicago Daily News item reflects themes of independence and social constraint within urban society.
A Louisville Courier Journal excerpt describes a tourist amazed by a native servant who shaves his master while he sleeps each morning in India. The tale highlights cultural norms and the traveler’s discomfort with the unfamiliar practice.
E Goodloe of Dutton Street Waco Texas credits Dr Kings New Discovery for five years of good health. He says a long cough from years of illness is gone and praises its cures for cough grippe croup whooping cough and pneumonia prevention. Guaranteed and sold at Miller drug store 50 cents and one dollar with a free trial bottle.
An old advertisement promotes Foley's Honey and Tar for hay fever and summer colds. It claims immediate relief and healing of inflamed air passages with a genuine product in a yellow package sold by BR. E. Conner & Co.
A. B. H. Davis of Mount Sterling Iowa writes that kidney trouble lasting about two years was permanently cured by two bottles of Foley's Kidney Cure. The product is sold by Conner & Co and EB.
A brief vendor note touts Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar as a non opiate cough remedy that moves the bowels. It claims most other cough cures are constipating and notes availability at all druggists.
Wanted. Gentleman or lady with good references to travel by rail or with outfit for a firm of 240000 dollars capital. Salary 1072 dollars per year and expenses, salary paid weekly and expenses advanced. Address with stamp Jos A Alexander Algona Iowa January 26
Test the tooth some laxative tablets for constipation sour stomach and bad breath. Sold by R H Miller. Six cents box available at our store.
Money to loan at 4 per cent advertised by Haggard and Peek. In this state it is not necessary to serve a five days notice for eviction of a cold. Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar is sold by all druggists. Scrub yourself daily to stay clean inside. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea is recommended.
An advertising snippet promotes De Witt’s Little Early Risers as painless pills with sure results and sells Shoop’s Green Salve for dry lips and rough skin, listed by local druggists KR. BH. Miller.
Memorial University describes itself as a co educational school with teachers who specialize in their lines. Students hail from twelve states and the aim is to form character with moral, literary, and social influences. Facilities include a good library and laboratories, with emphasis on neat, up to date surroundings and attention to backward students. About one hundred scholars expect to descend from Veterans, offerings include preparatory, business, oratory, and rounds in various departments.
A damaged patient testimony from Algona and McGregor describes years of kidney trouble with back pain headaches and sleep disruption. The ad touts Doan's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo as a lasting cure and urges readers to seek relief at local druggists.
An advertisement cites men over forty suffering from kidney and prostate issues, promoting Foley's Kidney Remedy as a cure. Rodney Burnett of Rockport Missouri reports relief after two bottles, claiming decades of discomfort ended. The copy touts wide age danger and urges use at first signs.
A fragmentary note from R. H. Miller mentions a wary woman who worries until she wrinkles and then worries the aunt? It hints at a product named Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy or joke. The terse line suggests a satirical or rhymed省style in a 38e marking.
A health note promotes peacable breakfast mood and a healthy body and mind. It claims a healthy stomach improves work, mood, and citizenship, warns that mild indigestion disturbs disposition, and urges overeat correction with a dyspepsia remedy available at all druggists.
A garbled OCR snippet notes obstinate cases erring by Doses ointment and suggests a belief that pifes cannot a drug store. The fragment preserves unnamed entities and looks like a defective historic ad or label.
M. T. Lynch editor of the Daily Post praises Foley's Honey and Tar for colds, noting in his column that he dislikes many medicines but finds this product particularly effective for his family, despite not overpraising it.
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