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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1905
Page
7
A humorous note questions a girl’s prospects as society deems beauty while a preacher’s romance with a Sunday crocheter sparks church talk. The excerpt contrasts vanity, fashion, and public morality with a sermon urging vigilance against corrupting impressions.
Mrs Emma Fleissner of Seattle writes that after over two years of irregular painful periods her health improved with Peruna. She used it about three months and her troubles were removed and she plans to keep taking it occasionally when run down. The testimonial notes many testimonials Dr Hartman has received about Peruna restoring health.
A collection of aphoristic statements urging humility, charity, and steadfastness. It contrasts true glory with vanity, warns against greed and bigotry, and emphasizes witness, prayer, and honest effort as paths to spiritual growth and freedom.
A humorous domestic vignette features an alleged boss asking why workers sit by the window in the air shaft while sewing. The wife counters that sitting there lets them hear well. The quip ends noting idleness breeds misery.
A recipe narrative describes buttering a teacup, inverting it onto a peach filled pudding dish, creating a crust from flour sugar and butter, adding milk and an egg, baking to form a peach dessert with a syrup sauce. Interleaved are humorous quips from various periodical sources.
In a sharp exchange, Miss Gladdie confronts Miss Kander about their relationship. Miss Kander replies that her aim was to forge them into enemies, not friends, underscoring a calculated social dynamic.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a house party where the elder Miss Timmins proposes a kissing game, prompting surprised reactions and a question about what one would do in such a moment.
A San Francisco Chronicle claim that Ethel Barrymore has displaced the Gibson girl as the popular ideal at Atlantic City. The piece describes her look and influence on fashion and mood, noting her hair, clothing, and manner as dainty and feminine. It also mentions Italian culinary habits, including cat meat as a lawful feature in northern Italy and its preparation.
An Atlanta Constitution piece describes a stormy wind scattering stars while a rainbow arcs across the sky. A playful image likens a rainbow to a ribbon running around the heavens as a man drops a penny into a slot.
A collage of witty exchanges and jokes from multiple newspapers. Lines poke fun at wills, chauffeurs, marriage, and social quirks with brisk barbs and light host humor. Names and sources include Philadelphia Record Yonkers Statesman New York Mail and more, reflecting era gossip and humor.
A St. Louis man recalls a farmer's dog driving him up a tree for five hours and then delivering a walloping. He argues the dog showed understanding of the master’s absence and the risk of punishment, noting later the dog fled home on meeting him again.
The note touts Piso's Cure as effective for coughs and colds for four decades. Available at druggists for 25 cents. The piece also contains sermons urging action over philosophy and cross centered Christian preaching by Rev. J C Knight and Rev Lyman Abbott.
An advertising passage praises Pillsbury Vitos as the Meat of the Wheat a wholesome breakfast cereal offered in two pound packages at 20 cents. Calls on grocers to supply it and urges doctors ministers and workers needing Sunday rest to claim a day off for recuperation.
A reader letter cites Christian faith as certain and enduring, arguing the promises of God are firm and cannot fail. The message attributes strength to belief and endorses Congregationalist views from Boston, Massachusetts.
An advertisement touts Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer claiming permanent relief from fits and nervousness after a single day's use. It invites readers to send for a free trial and treatise, listing Dr R H Kline Ltd of Philadelphia for contact information.
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