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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1909
Page
3
A mixed page item slate shows business listings in Estherville Iowa with doctors lawyers and a hardware firm, plus scattered quips and a Dr Wolf anecdote about quack medicines. The page includes a joke column and a Chicago News quip about a woman’s complexion.
A health column touts Dean's Kidney Pills as a remedy for kidney weakness causing fatigue backache and disorders. It cites a Kansas City reader’s testimonial that the pills improved a child’s kidney complaints after one box and urges readers to demand proof. Also notes a nine foot six Missouri giantess guest and a calico origin tale.
The Detroit Free Press describes a Goose and Duck market on Hastings Street run by an east side operator. Local housewives select live birds, inspecting feathers for fullness and plumpness. Purchases are bound with a hook and neck restraint, then carried home with pride as a neighborhood spectacle.
A witty toast at the Tailors' National Association convention sparks a quip about advertising fashion prints. The speaker rails against shrinking menswear to boy sizes, recounting a memory of a younger brother forced to endure awkward attire and old style whiskers.
An old period ad compiles a free prescription claim for “Dr. A. KB Robinson” to cure nervous debility and related woes with a purported quick restorative. It touts arnica salve as healing for Burns and wounds, cites a Chicago area, and promises no-opiate remedies. The page also notes a humorous hobo exchange, a senator’s quip on memory, a cough remedy claim for Foley’s Honey and Tar, a jeweler’s accidental discovery, and a sale listing for a North Sixth Street residence with furnace and outbuildings.
The record flight for a kite reached 28,111 feet above sea level after launching from a mountain top where the temperature was 70 degrees above zero. At its peak the wind chilled conditions dropped to 5.4 degrees below zero.
Rev. Joseph H. Fespeermai of Salisbury North Carolina, author of several books, recounts a kidney illness last winter. He was bedridden eight days with painful urination and thick white sediment in urine. After using Foley’s Kidney Remedy, pain eased and urine normalized.
New York exhibits wealth through its enormous real estate values. Estimates place Gotham real estate at about two and a quarter times greater than the entire money in circulation in the United States, underscoring the city’s extraordinary wealth.
Ancient timekeeping traces from sundials to clepsydras show gnomon shadows on earth, sand glasses in use for hours, and early oblong and oval clocks. Gnomon origins predate dial invention. sand and water clocks mark fixed intervals, with later use in churches as reminders to preachers.
A man found semiconscious in Madison Square New York says he knew his name and home yet could not find his way home after a week. He recalls only straining his neck to stare at the Flatiron building and Metropolitan Tower before a strange trance set in, raising questions about self-suggestion and hypnotic effect from tall buildings.
A writer in Everybody's Magazine notes the vast costs of large hotel operations. A 700 room property spends 17 000 weekly on wages while larger houses with 1000 to 1500 rooms burn substantial coal daily. Food bills for Angona apartment hotel in New York reach 2 000 daily, with starting staff costs around 600 to 700. Music, dishes, linen, and annual renewals push total expenses to hundreds of thousands, with total upkeep between 500 000 and 600 000 yearly.
The author contrasts Madeira with Mexico, noting no modern architecture or European innovation beyond a single motorcar in Funchal. He praises Madeira's architecture as a Spanish Moorish mix, superior to anything in Mexico, while describing the ship's view of Hawlesa and the glowing lights along the water as dawn nears.
A fragmentary exchange imagines a friend asking about exercise and a responder admitting不足, framing activity as difficult. The garbled text suggests a quip about taking exercise being hard and unreliable advice.
A mother recalls her child calling openings doors and a stocking hole becoming a funny door. The playful exchange highlights language tricks in a family. Also notes a Munich maid resigning over daily music and a statistic: 64 percent of world rubber supply from South America.
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