Fragmentary wartime dialogue on crime and marriage
A garbled excerpt shows characters debating lynching and murder with lines about a dog, a failed wedding, and a rejected budget. Names and clear events are obscured, masking the actual storyline.
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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1910
Page
8
A garbled excerpt shows characters debating lynching and murder with lines about a dog, a failed wedding, and a rejected budget. Names and clear events are obscured, masking the actual storyline.
Proceedings of Kossuth County Iowa grant drainage bonds at 5 percent interest with semiannual coupons payable May and November. Bonds issued to fund Drainage District No 34, secured by special assessments on benefited lands and county pledge. Bonds signed by Board chair and county auditor with county seal, dated November 1 1909.
The order requires each bond to be signed by the chair of the Board of Supervisors and countersigned by the County Auditor, with the county seal affixed. Interest coupons are to be executed by facsimile signatures, and the bonds delivered to the revenue hall for delivery.
Mrs Lysander John Appleton of Atchison Globe calls for any woman who sees her affinity with a man living at the Hilltop to contact her home at any hour. She accuses the man of misbehavior, claims a lack of schooling, and warns of possible improprieties if the woman takes him away after Christmas money requests.
A Philadelphia mother recalls her six year old son's severe eczema, spreading across the leg, treated with Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills. After two boxes of each, the skin improved rapidly and the boy remained free of eczema years later. The letter endorses Cuticura remedies and urges others to try them.
A letter to a daughter extols humor virtue and innocence as the best comforts. It notes Harry Allen, 20, and Isabella Allen, 18,.. taken by the Nebraska Children's Home Society in 1887 from Grand Island after their father Silas Allen died. The mother, now in Oklahoma, cannot locate them and asks the siblings to write to P. O. Box 898, Omaha, Nebraska, with their address so mail can be sent to their mother.
Business is good though not as large as the Klondike Incubator Co the Des Moines firm claims superior construction. Their new catalogue is neat and instructive covering Impoultry matters. Write the company at Des Moines and they will mail you one.
A restrained prisoner declines to speak on defense, noting he would say a few words but for the presence of ladies. The judge proceeds with pronunciation of sentence.
A collage of dubious cures and testimonials offers rewards for catarrh cures and touts Jull’s Catarra Cure. Includes references to F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo, WALDING SHINNAN MARVIN, and wholesale druggists. Promotes Dr Detchon’s Rheumatism Relief, Prytids Eye Drops, Wrigley’s Spearmint, Bromide Quinine, and a general satire on patent medicines with jokes and old-time quackery tone.
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