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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1904
Page
7
The article questions whether salaries of middle class workers rose as prosperity grew, noting teachers and clerks gained little, salesmen and money handlers fared better, and the salaried man often lacks capital. It cites traits for financial success as daring, endurance, or self denial, with a journalist anecdote about a medical celebrity.
A Washington Star report catalogs diverse methods women use to carry cash on them from stockings to card cases to neck pouches and glove interiors. It cites a detective noting stockings as a common safe deposit and lists various concealment spots used by shoppers travelers schoolgirls and others with humor about feminine cash management.
The item recounts Henry Ward Beecher joking about a dead letter returned to the post office and imagines his grimly playful funeral notes. It also notes Roosevelt misreading a Yellowstone Park coachman dialect and a family anecdote about a baby’s growth and strength. The piece closes with a stat on U.S. diamond value, noting New York residents own about 170,000 dollars of it.
A lettersheet style clippings recount a local theater group presenting a play to a lively audience. The report mentions a quick paced scene and a collector noting seven pocketbooks picked up after the rush, suggesting a chaotic but cheerful reception.
Letters praising Peruna as the universal catarrh remedy pour in from every state to Dr. Hartman in Columbus. The Oregon governor shares a testimonial about using Peruna to prevent other ailments after colds, urging households to keep the remedy and obtain Hartman’s free book Winter Catarrh.
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