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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
5
An advertisement cites testimonials from Mrs Baker of Cleveland and Mrs Bennett of Alina detailing cures for epilepsy St Vitus dance and spasms using Dr Miles Nervine. It claims long term benefits with persistent use and offers a money back guarantee via local druggists.
An ad for A. W. Chase kidney and liver pills claims relief for backache and kidney issues. It asserts pills regulate liver and bowels, purify the system, and restore work capacity, with testimonials from users across towns. The copy promotes pharmacy purchase and emphasizes cure claims.
A discussion on predicting earthquakes notes that while exact foresight remains elusive, scientists monitor pulsations and quiet spells as danger signals. Aftershocks are natural, aiding ground stabilization, with patterns varying by initial quake strength and locality, sometimes continuing for months or years.
A disjointed clump of anecdotes includes a camel in Africa allegedly dying by its own act after a struck revenge plan, a Lavender etymology tracing to Roman baths and its late introduction to Britain, and scattered notes on old stories from India and miscellaneous domestic glimpses. The piece shifts between strange animal tale, plant history, and miscellany without a single cohesive report.
Readers are told elder trees ward off witches and pests with plant magic. references describe hates for elder trade, a Spanish village with elder trees becoming healthy after removal, and superstition about elder affecting cultivation. mentions Canhe and Cesters applying branches to prevent flies.
Aunt Clorinda relays a quarrel at a strawberry social where Mandy Jones accuses Clay Jeffson of hurting her feelings. The dispute centers on a short cake serving and Mandy’s quip about two mouthfuls, prompting Jeffson to offer all he can get on the plate. Mandy may require apology after apprenticeship.
A giant orchid, described as the chieftain of the orchid tribe, is noted in Ceylon as potentially the largest in the world. It grew for forty years before first flowering, with about seventy stems each bearing 100 ribbonlike leaves and flower stalks five and a half to eight feet long. The plant blooms for about two months and can show up to 3,000 flowers at once, each five and a half to six inches wide, yellow with dark blotches.
A comedian recalls a melodrama from youth in which grand artists dominated the scenes but the audience mocked them. The villain’s death in act six was the highlight until a bad curtain moment led to a witty exchange about being alive and hungry.
A compilation of ribald incomprehensible quips and malapropisms from a late 19th or early 20th century column. Jokes touch on a Bayside cook, a tramp given soap, love versus a puppy, Wall Street slang, and humorous misprints. The piece preserves the era’s humor and typographical oddities with clipped lines and garbled phrases.
Franklin Clarkin in Everybody's Magazine recounts the Sance Diamond saga from its Renaissance beginnings to its wanderings through royal courts and jewelers. It traces ownership from Charles and Henrietta era to the Earl of Worcester, the Atuartea, James II, Louis XVI, and beyond, with thefts and restitution across Europe and Asia.
The piece explains how spiders differ from insects in five main ways and recounts the brutal medieval torture device called the picket. It notes spiders have simple eyes no antennae and breathe via combined lung gill organs. The picket tortures riders with a stool and a wrist bound to a hook leaving feet unable to rest on a sharpened stump, often for extended periods.
A fragmented dialogue presents a doctor treating a husband who allegedly shot himself, probing for a bullet while a request to find a swallowed gold button surfaces. The piece blends comic lines about athleticism and mispronounced phrases, with garbled dialogue and street humor throughout.
A muddled exchange references Woggs-Young Smith and Dus surry for the boy with high standards leading to a failing business. The dialogue mocks exaggerated claims about product testing and manufacturing, with mentions of dynamite and misread expectations. The piece weaves fragmented banter about markets and travel, ending with a quip about a noisy railway scene.
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