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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1908
Page
3
In a candid exchange from the Chicago Record-Herald a woman urges openness while a man hints at a long-held wish. He asks for freedom to speak his mind and she prompts him to reveal his true thoughts, referencing a remark about her hair.
Readers are invited to send controversial letters to The Record Herald's Sunday feature The Battle Ground of Modern Thought. Notable Example Brookline, Mass shows public improvement and long municipal tenures. Health Coffee by Dr Shoop of Racine is a grain based coffee substitute. Kodol digestant promotes relief from dyspepsia and related symptoms.
The wassail bowl, called the gossip’s bowl in the midsummer drama, blends spiced ale nutmeg sugar toast roasted apples and sometimes crabs. It crowns the New Year feast and fosters friendship as resentments fade. Your eye on the label shows the time and paid year for subscription.
At a New York University Club dinner the Y M C A and speakers warned that country life endangers youth. Myer T. Scudder, president of New Paltz state normal school, said country districts draw benign boys away, while F W Pearsall cited city vice in rural areas. The talk urged revitalizing country life to keep the younger generation.
A sketch captures Randy admiring a small, precious seven year old whisky, calling it a wee drappie in the glass and valuing its age despite its diminutive size.
A fragment from a wedding anecdote recalls a remark about the bride that triggers astonishment. The exchange hints at a humorously morbid force of habit as the undertaker identity is implied. Catholic Blanchard and Times.
The Bowser household erupts as Samuel Bowser clashes with his ill wife and ailing mother in law over house duties and a broken stove. After a heated row he storms out into a cold night, only to be recalled by the stern matriarch. A neighborly scuffle and police intervention punctuate the domestic farce as Bowser flees back to the coop he once threatened to leave.
Advertises Dr Shoop’s Restorative as a spring cure for sluggish nerves and bodily fatigue, claims quick daily improvements, and lists availability from dealers. Mentions Lauruso’s Twenty Cent Wage, DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve, Humphreys Seventy-seven for colds, and Kodol for Dyspepsia with claims of rapid digestion and relief, sold by Schultz & Both.
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