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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
3
Little Elsie describes a trip to Washington DC. She recalls dining at a grand hotel with senators and representatives and their wives, drinking champagne. She praises the deportment of the waiters, noting they were colored gentlemen who served the wine beautifully.
A mother from Shiloh Ohio recounts her son Clyde covered in eczema for a year. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent he slept that first night and was nearly well in six weeks. A leading physician recommends Cuticura for eczema. June 11 1907.
In a terse exchange the wife recalls an earlier wedding vow and asks if heaven still sent her husband to him. The husband replies that it was sent as a punishment, revealing a tense and charged domestic moment.
A twelve year history touts Allen's Toot-Ease as a genuine effective foot powder. Claimed virtues include cleanliness healing antiseptic relief for tired feet and the promise to cure while you walk backed by over 26 000 testimonials. Warns against imitations and urges asking for the original product.
Report notes weekly lottery spend in Mexico City reaches nearly 100000 dollars while premiums paid total about 70000 dollars. The imbalance suggests substantial profits for organizers as public interest remains high.
An old advertisement promotes Marine Eye Remedy Co. products sold by druggists for 50 cents per package. It vows soothing action for red, weak, weary, and watery eyes and notes a 48 page book included in each package, suitable for every home.
A compact reflection notes that as a boy begins to think about smoking a girl starts thinking about flirting, highlighting changing social concerns during youth and adolescence.
A historical medical discussion explains thinness as due to digestive derangements and hyperacidity. It describes how fat digestion relies on pancreatic juice and how acid fermentation in the stomach impairs digestion. The text advocates Peruna before meals to speed digestion and restore fat absorption for regained fullness.
After election concerns arise over ballot counting in Des Moines. Prohibitionists claim miscounts and barred delegates. county auditor and officials face charges while a convention committee plans a report for June 27. City Solicitor Brennan weighs legality of cigar machine gambling schemes and possible seizure.
Secretary Taft returns to Cincinnati to a joyous homecoming as brother Charles Taft greets him with a loving embrace. Vice presidential hopeful James Sherman joins Taft amid a large civic crowd and official praise from local leaders. A national committee sub-committee discusses chairman and secretary appointments while avoiding health concerns among candidates.
Temperance lesson summarizes Ephesians 6 6 21 urging abstinence from alcohol as part of walking in love and light. It links drunkenness to impurity greed and foul speech and urges believers to live openly seek divine approval and let public light expose saloons and temptations.
Fragmentary OCR describes a 2208 year context with references to schools for the deaf, attendance figures, a city or county funding pact, and mentions of a superintendent and a board. The text is highly garbled, with many misread words and names, making precise extraction difficult.
A chaotic report describes populists meeting at a Toa hotel lobby naming a ticket and platform. The ticket includes a mix of county and state officials with focused debate on tariff and free trade while urging consolidation of opposition against rival candidates and party reforms.
Cincinnati June 21 The report said Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and Senator Chester T. Long of Kansas emerged as new prominent names in the Republican national committee conference with Secretary Watt. The leaders discussed selecting a chairman for the committee at the subcommittee meeting.
In Columbus Ohio on June 22 Mrs James Comstock of Sanbury about 60 years old threw herself in front of a fast southbound train on the Cleveland Akron and Columbus line. Her head lodged on the tracks and was carried 840 miles before being found the engine having traveled to Columbus then back to Cleveland and as far as Condit.
Matthias Campbell a Civil War and two Indian wars veteran living in Blair Nebraska states he suffered long back pains and near total urine stoppage. He and his wife used Dean's Kidney Pills for advanced kidney troubles and both claim complete cures. Sold by dealers for 50 cents a box by Yester Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A humorous line contrasts biblical figures with modern habits noting that Adam and Eve in Eden did not send souvenir postals, highlighting a redeeming trait as a punchline.
The text warns about inspecting CASTORIA bottles for safety and claims a long trusted label. It then notes Brazil required over 20,000,900 jute bags for coffee production last year, with each bag costing shipper about 18 cents, making the coffee bag business nearly $4,000,900 in year.
A brief comic exchange about a new neighbor who is deaf to his wife's words. The wife notes the man’s luck over sense and the husband chimes in on the humorous situation of a quiet flat across the hall.
Canada holds the world’s most extensive fisheries with an eastern coastline from the Bay of Fundy to the Straits of Belle Isle spanning 5,600 miles. Inshore salt water areas exceed 1,500 square miles, discounting minor indentations and western Great Lakes.
The Atlanta Constitution notes a Georgia farmer posting a gate sign about candidates with a wry reply from his son. The farmer welcomes the visitor, saying the politically driven man has run since the war and cannot help it, a line illustrating endurance of political fervor.
Peter Minuit allegedly acquired Manhattan from Native Americans with trinkets and rum for 24 dollars. Bill Nye cites this historic investment humorously in his history of the United States. The piece reflects on how the island grew into a major metropolis.
A testimonial letter from a user over sixty praises Grape-Nuts with milk and cream for steady appetite and improved nerve and brain power. She notes family members, including a traveling son and a 70 plus aunt, also using the product and credits breakfast with Grape-Nuts. The letter, attributed to Postum Co. of Battle Creek, invites further reader letters.
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