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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1913
Page
3
An epidemic of coughing sweeps the town affecting young and old. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is advertised as a quick safe family medicine for coughs and colds with endorsements from a Lac Pharmacy of Chico California. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is also offered as an effective cold treatment.
For forty three years Dr. King's New Discovery has been famed as a reliable cough remedy. Over three million bottles were sold last year. J J Owens of Allendale South Carolina testifies it ends long coughs after twenty years of use. For coughs colds and throat and lung troubles it has no equal. Bets won at WS Shadle and Co.
Henry Higby proclaims a rooftop tree cure for rheumatism after building a four-tree platform in the yard. He drifts to sleep in a cot above ground, falls when the platform collapses in a gust, and wakes in his bed with multiple injuries. Anastasia frets yet narrator notes his cure is achieved at a high cost.
In Missouri Ozark hills vast cedar logs supply cedar wood for pencil making. Logs travel by river to mills, produce long, straight heartwood, and are cut into spindles and slats for core and exterior parts. Trade links extend to New York and European mills, fueling pencil factories abroad.
A dialog unfolds where a suitor seeks consent to wed and proves a claim to lineage. The scene shifts to a Highland chronicle tracing Scots origins from Caledonia and Scotia, detailing Gaels and Picts and the meanings behind names and lands praised by antiquarian notes.
A retired chemist notes that beet sugar and cane sugar share the same composition and properties. He adds that maple sugar would lose its aroma if reboiled and refined, producing crystals indistinguishable from cane or beet sugar.
A compact note on Nicolo Machiavelli describing his nervous concise Italian style and drama in Miandragola praised by Leo X. It mentions The Art of War and Frederick the Great praising it, contrasts with Washingtonian honesty, and ends with a cautionary tale about ignorance and a man who fell into a pit but saved himself by a beam.
Housten Pest reports a woman who, before wartling, kept watch for a win bug band. After securing one, she remains vigilant for him, highlighting local peculiar slang and the community’s ongoing curiosity about the unusual event.
A fragment from New Orleans Thays-Democrat captures a tense moment as a diner complains the steak is put Very temper and Walter retorts the dish won’t kiss him before removing the plate. The exchange highlights restaurant frustration in a clipped dialogue.
A Baltimore American snippet plays with romantic quips about love. It toys with lines like that girl is a peach and she is the apple of my eye while noting clean hands are better than full ones in a whimsical proverb.
Norman Tabor of Brown University is a strong Intercollegiate mile favorite with a real chance to break the current record of 4 minutes 15 3-6 seconds held by Cornell’s John Paul Jones. His pace will determine if the record falls at the championships, though he is often described as an indifferent athlete.
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