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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1908
Page
3
In Chicago a disgruntled diner complains of a long wait and a steak served underdone or overdone. The waiter cites being short handed. the proprietor faces a customer demanding a report for impudence while the quarrel spills to the cashier at the desk.
A Pennsylvania railroad applicant named Insl froman faced a test question asking how he would respond if another engine approached on a single track at 60 miles per hour. He answered after a brief pause, I’d bless myself, in a remark quoted from Lippincott's Magazine.
In Harper's Weekly a weary crowded ride prompts passengers to berate the rail company while one man, traveling on a free pass, resists denouncing them. He jokes that if service does not improve he will buy a ticket and join them.
A Detroit Tribune excerpt shows an office boy pressing to leave for a baseball game but is thwarted by the boss who insists the real motive is to attend his grandmother's funeral. The dialog hints at laziness and a misdirected attempt to take time off.
A fragmentary quote depicts a corruptionist, cited by Senator De Pew, entering a voter's house to sway the wife while the man is away. The caller offers to buy a kitten for $25, noting the opponent paid $50 for its brother yesterday. The exchange hints at bribery tactics and political manipulation.
readers quote a backhanded discussion on heaven summer scenes and gender balance at summer regorts while a club jokes about an address on Rand advice to henpecked husbands. one cites a wife restricting night outings. the tone mirrors light editorial whimsy from Chicago News and Baltimore American.
Fragmented ad text references Mrs Style in latest fashion, a shopman offering a chair, and a note about a potent sleep aid for tired mothers. It mentions Dagog Sweet for babies, a palatable tonic with soothing ingredients, and Dr Shoop Night Cure suppositories. Also notes job printing services at the office.
A clipped excerpt presents a con man known as a tramp sharing his mischiefs to a farm audience. He explains techniques to gain meals and shelter, using stories of robberies and long-lost relatives to manipulate farmers and avoid suspicion, including issuing threats and fabricating suspense. He recounts escape from a Connecticut sheriff and a scheme involving newspapers and a feigned mystery to harvest aid.
Otto B Schnar, president of the New York Waiters' club, argues against the belief that Englishmen want extremely rare beef. He recalls an English duke who, after seeing a very rare sirloin, asked for a butcher saying the meat did not seem dead yet.
Nature provides the stomach with fluids to digest food but careless habits upset health. The advertisement urges using Kodol for dyspepsia and indigestion and claims it digests all foods. It promotes reliability and guarantees relief, selling through D Breuning & Co. Summer stomach troubles are common and caution is advised.
Ad copy touts Kodul as a natural digestant easing indigestion and dyspepsia, with promises of rapid relief from stomach distress and nervous headaches. DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder pills are billed as thorough, strengthening kidneys and soothing bladder inflammation, distributed by Salahy D Branning & Co.
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