Dr King’s New Discovery Promises Fast Cough Relief
Irritating coughs and depressing colds are urged to yield quickly to Dr King’s New Discovery. The ad cites testimonials from Lewis Chamblin Annie Tlemings and others, claiming rapid relief, weight gain after recovery, and a forty three year history. Money back guarantee offered if it fails.
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Ohio
King’s New Discovery
Bona
Kings New Discovery
Annie Tmlemings
New Dover
Flying Bullets and Air Waves Disturb the Water
A fragment discusses a bullet’s speed and the air waves it creates, noting that at over 1000 feet per second visible waves form behind the projectile. It mentions photography limits, the perception of waves in water, and historical quotes about poets. The text weaves in dialogue on chasing hats and a humorous aside about poets and their fathers.
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Deauth
Ube
Lad of Seventeen Runs Farm For His Mother
Arthur Anderson, at seventeen, runs a western Iowa farm near Corsoo Bluffs for his widowed mother Mary Anderson. He manages crops and stock, with 35 hogs raised this summer and only one brood lost, 20 acres of corn yielding over 50 bushels per acre, an acre of potatoes, alfalfa and oat plots, and plans a ten acre alfalfa patch next spring. He left school to support his family but has rudimentary education from nearby district school. Mrs. Mary Anderson is proud of her son’s enterprise.
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Arthur Anderson
Corsoo Bluffs
Towa
Hina
Raud Anderson
Tor
Hinerlf
Hie Sertion
Anderson
Mary Anderson
Council Bluffs
Iowa
From a South Tama Bohemian Farmer to a 220 Acre Farm
Seven years ago Andrew Kole faced hardship and illness after failing in Texas. He moved to Tama with a wife and eight children, found work at $1.25 daily, then rented farms near Brooklyn and Chelsea. Four years of farming enabled him to buy a 220 acre Tyvine area farm for about $38,500, with a $4,000 down payment and 5 percent interest, signaling a meaningful start for ambitious youth.
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South Tama
Andrew Kole
Texas
Tama
Ama
Northwestern
Brooklyn
James Rich
Chelsea
Tie
Tyvine
Iowa as Popcorn Center of the World
A report notes that Iowa counties Bac and Ida grew about 500000 bushels of popcorn last year, more than any other state. A farmer sold his 913 crop of popcorn and reportedly earned around fifty dollars per hundredweight, while Nebraska and other areas also capitalized on the favorable weather and yields.
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Rom Fda
Lowe
Bac
Ida
Walking to Asia from a Whaling Ship
Excerpted from A Year With a Whaler by Walter Noble Burn, the author describes sailing Aug 16 through the Bering Strait between Cape Wrangell and Cape Dezhnev. He notes two islands, Diomede, and the narrow channels, with Eskimo ski boat travelers crossing between continents.
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Fraven
Reing Strait
Aretic
Cape Trince
Wales
Diomene
Haat
Straits
America
Aala
Walter Noble Rurna
True to the End in a Wales Miners Mystery
A long buried tale from Wales recounts miners finding a young man’s perfectly preserved body in an old pit. An elderly village woman, betrothed sixty years before, recognizes him, kisses the corpse, and dies that night as her lifelong lover reappears in spirit.
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Wales
Hin
London Telegraph
Wise Eskimos and the fringe in Eskimo dress
Captain Roald Amundsen notes every element of Eskimo clothing has a purpose. Though his men mocked grown men in fringe, he kept it, learning the fringe's meaning. When deer skin anoraks began curling as fringe was removed, they quickly restored it to avoid a necktie look.
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Roald Amundsen
Northwest Passage
Astronomy figures stun the imagination with vast cosmic distances
The piece muses that money draws interest in astronomy yet distances outstrip comprehension. It notes the north star lies about 210 trillion miles away, a railroad at one mile per minute would need 479 million years to reach it, and light takes 36 years to travel that distance to Earth.
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United States
Hght
Right in His Face at a Defunct Bank
Grieving depositors gather on the sidewalk before closed bank doors. A man consoles a distressed elder with a bandana and white wool, insisting banks burst daily, while futile chatter and garbled captions hint at a broader scene of public sorrow.
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Atul Face
Harper's Weekly
Little Things and Ancient Seas in a Scotch Sunday
A collage of reflections on small daily things shaping fate and joy, then a geological sketch of the Tethys Ocean and plate tectonics before listing a sixteenth century Scottish Sunday practice. It recounts elders patrolling Sundays, repentance sessions, and the drawn blinds of Edinburgh in the sixties.
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Scotland
Thomson
Kirk
James Payn
Edinburgh
London Chronicle
A Medical View of Bathing in Cleanliness
Dr Philip Skrainka argues in the International Medical Journal that frequent bathing improves physical and mental health. He urges strong emphasis on cleanliness to raise public morale and dismisses concerns over soap strength or water quantity.
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Philip Skrainka
Ioteratate Medical Journal
The Victoria Cross Story and Poetic Snippets
The article extols the Victoria Cross as Britain’s pinnacle decoration, notes its bronze origin from Sebastopol cannon, and credits the Duke of Newcastle with inspiring a universal English order. It describes the VC’s pension of 60 dollars and mentions related, unrelated vignettes including insomnia dialogue and a song-like verse about a mother’s love.
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England
Sebastopol
Duke of Newcastle
Legion of Honor
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Emmet County Land and Abstract Company
Esther Ville
UDC
First National Bank
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Arthur Andars
Lowa
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Udu
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Mclitlher
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