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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1904
Page
8
An account describes a conversation where Quanah Parker jokes about wanting a lighter desk in Fort Worth Texas. He explains how he would sit with feet on the desk, smoke, and read the paper, while a white man would interrupt at the door demanding silence.
A fragmentary notice touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney troubles, featuring testimonials from Mrs. L. K. Baggett and others. It also mentions Niagara Falls lithographs and a Naples sailor tale, then shifts to fashion trends reviving three centuries of dress styles with emphasis on embroidery, sleeves, and bold color.
A reader recounts lasting relief from twenty five years of sick headaches after switching from coffee to Postum. She describes prior severe pain and fatigue, the pivotal coffee link, and how Postum improved health and strength, aided by others with similar results.
In Everybody's Magazine a report details ongoing slave trafficking in San Francisco Chinatown. Miss Donaldine Cameron leads raids to free enslaved women, risking danger underground passages and hidden rooms. Prices for rescued slaves rise as demand remains, while trade in Porto Rico goods shows rising US imports of coffee and tobacco.
Trade between Porto Rico and the United States rose sharply after the Spanish-American War. In 1903 the island’s commerce reached about 22 million dollars, more than five times 1897’s 4.16 million. Total island trade surpassed 28 million, with U S shipments dominating the balance. Major U S exports included breadstuffs and cotton goods, while imports from Porto Rico reflected domestic and foreign products.
Davin Rankin of Tarkio Missouri, born in Scotland in 1825, built a vast farming empire from a tiny seed. Through grit, land purchases, and steady work, he amassed 23,000 acres in Missouri and supplies up to 500000 bushels of corn annually for his stock feeding to Chicago packers.
A collector describes a one of a kind manuscript lectionary in Palestinian Syriac containing readings from the Old Testament and St. Paul’s epistles. The codex, torn with several missing leaves, is contrasted with Gospel lectionaries in Vatikan and Mount Sinai MSS. The missing end date may be on a remaining leaf, aiding Syriac literary history.
The piece portrays Senator Lamar of Mississippi as highly absent minded yet loyal to friends. It recalls his habit of misplacing glasses and suspenders while noting a quip from his Supreme Court days about sewing glasses to vests and suspenders to trousers to avoid trouble.
An evangelist proclaims Wall Street conversions to be a success in tenement districts while a trust promoter questions the field for such efforts. The Philadelphia Press notes the shift as a debate over converting water into negotiable assets, claiming daily examples of financial conversion.
Fragmentary historical list catalogues animal counts including rhinoceros camel leopards and many birds and fishes with varied quantities. It appears as a raw inventory or enclosure tally without coherent narrative or context.
Mrs Barah Marine of Colorado Springs recounts severe backache and kidney ailment. After doctors offered medicines, a friend urged Dean's Kidney Pills. Within a week she improved and after two boxes was entirely well. She has enjoyed good health for four months. For sale by Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo.
A New York Telegraph pole site tells of a mouse that fell into a cavity and, over three days, gnawed a spiral groove to form an improvised stairway. Workmen fed the hopeful creature as it inched toward the top and finally gained freedom amid cheers.
A slogan advises self-reliance in all pursuits from love to business. It urges relying on oneself to gain position happiness or wealth, claiming any success will be one’s own and any fall a personal challenge to endure alone.
Mrs Hayes writes from Dudley Roxbury Boston claiming long term fibroid tumor pain swelling and bleeding but after following Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound directions she is a well woman able to walk miles. She endorses the remedy as worth five dollars a drop and urges others with tumors or female trouble to try it.
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