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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1903
Page
3
Mr Bowser, summoned to write a poem for a club named the Spring Lambs, endures a comic, turbulent session at home. His verse evolves with interruptions from a cat and a doorstep visitor, culminating in a quarrel over rhymes and a plan to resign from the club. He finally heads to a drug store to read his efforts to the pharmacist and customers.
The text presents a playful dialogue about spring poetry with Mira and Bowser critiquing verses. Mrs Bowser proposes changes while a narrator voice, Jonas and Jonah references, and William J. Lampton in New York Herald weave in light literary humor about spring, cuckoos and honeybees with a Jonah theme.
A local column thanks Mr. George White for a maple sugar cake from his woods. The piece jokes about subs, a parlor organ funded by ads, a wife’s new clothesline, and delays in payments. The editor pleads for money and produce to keep up work toward making a metropolitan Lopkinaville.
A dialogue shows Sut inviting Me Wan Gratefal to dinner, but Mr Makinbrakes declines saying it wouldn't be worth the trouble to arrange a dinner for one as he is very busy. The Chicago Tribune notes Charley showing interest in palmistry amid late night hand-watching wagers.
A Norristown Times snippet features an angler announcing independence in fishing, plans to strike out solo, while a worm and catfish scene unfolds comically. The San Francisco Examiner vignette shows a traveler joking about borrowing a conductor’s tobacco as a train runs six hours late.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Press questions rigid rules and mutual expectations in a pointed aside about Wiseman Nonsense and the phrase headlong versus long headed, reflecting opinion tone in a contemporary column.
The editor regrets a poem kept three years while the author laments fair treatment. A light exchange about luck and love surfaces in a parade of quips from The Atlanta Constitution and Cleveland Plain Dealer. A guide recalls Lover's Leap as a bluff.
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century style page hints at private romantic tensions. The spoken line centers on a Sabbath school teacher named Sommy and a man named Tommy, with insinuations about jealousy and a warning to keep secrets. The text reflects gossip and domestic intrigue within a small community.
A Baltimore Herald observation notes how some people spread Btandal wholesale by retailing it everywhere, reflecting on public rejection or humor in the pointed comment attributed to the Inspired idiot and the Low spired idiot.
An advertising claim asserts soft and crooked bones in children stem from improper feeding. Daily small doses of Scott's Emulsion are said to straighten bow legs loosen joints and firm the head. Free samples offered by SCOT! & BOWNE with address in New York. full price listed at $1.00.
A letter cites Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as preventing dangerous whooping cough effects in a baby of three months and claims overall health benefits for children. Advert passes tout Jerry Davis pain products, Kedol Dyspepsia cure, Foley's Kidney Cure, Little Liver Pills, and other tonics as cures for coughs, pains, indigestion, kidney issues, and rheumatism with testimonials from users and physicians.
The notice promotes southern lands as mild and favorable investments, claiming prices are far below value with strong returns. It references circulars Nos. 10 inclusive about lands in Kentucky, West Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana near the Illinois Central railroad, and is signed by J.P. Henry, A. G. Poa, and A. Dubuque.
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