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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1900
Page
3
A compact essay humorously cites a factory of life stresses and moral choices. It jokes about credit, debt, and personal integrity while contrasting it with everyday pratfalls. The piece ropes in anecdotes of poverty, charity, and the folly of pretending virtue in a bustling public world.
Samuel Mott of Boise City Idaho recounts extraordinary mining camp trickery where workers steal ore by subterfuge and staged diversions. He recalls Johnny Come Lately guarding a vein apex to lure rivals away and a smoke-smudge tactic that backfired, trapping Tyler miners beneath Last Chance workings.
A young man visits a downtown Chicago law office asking for Mr Younger and argues with a stenographer over pronunciation. The misunderstanding grows until he insists on being introduced to Mr Young er as he slips into the private office, presenting his card.
A fragment from an Argentine paper describes a gaucho asking for the police chief at a rural station and learning the chief, second officer, guard, and gendarmes are away or delayed. The prisoner reveals himself amid a comic, operatic scene reflecting mistrust and idle governance.
The narrative explains the jigger pest Pulex penetrans in Africans, its穴 burrowing under skin near toenails, causing severe irritation and sickness. Removal involves widening entry, extracting the parasite with care to leave eggs behind, then dressing the wound to prevent festering. A Leopard with diseased feet from jiggers is cited by Lieutenant Colonel Macdonald.
A collage of opinion pieces and anecdotes on dance culture, cross Atlantic influence, and social reactions. It cites American and British observers, noting shifting tastes, declines in dancing due to indifference, and differing local scenes from Detroit to BUtang, with a Burmese folk tale about a giant egg closing the fragment.
A nostalgic fragment recalls Isaac H Browley and veteran journalist Charles T Congdon at the New York Tribune. It includes light anecdotes about reading Bayles Dictionary, a joke about getting out of jail, birthday gifts, a lounge at home, and a mix of casual quips from various sources. The excerpt ends with a remark on temper and happiness.
The Washington Letter notes Thomas B Reed’s bar admission in California after he answered a constitutional question about the Wagle the legal tender act. The bench praised his quick reasoning, saying any man who can address a perplexing Supreme Court issue is fit to practice before this court.
A fragment describes Scottish parish schoolmasters facing an examiner who asks for Horace translation. One candidate begins Z Exegi monumentum and the examiner jokes that after eating a mountain a dinner would fill a mouthful, suggesting they could aim higher. The scene preserves caustic humor of the era.
A playful exchange between a young couple unfolds as the young wife asks why the world loves a lover while the husband vows not to reciprocate. The Philadelphia North American reports the scene with lighthearted, domestic humor and a touch of social commentary.
A merchant questions an applicant about available work. The applicant admits limited self knowledge and notes he was an assistant instructor at a boxing school. The merchant respondes he can use him and instructs him to come around in the morning.
In Them AN, Senator Borgitum jokes that no one accuses him of being a politician out of work. A guileless reader quips that lately he’s seemed near every job, a remark noted by the Washington Star.
Wm Orr of Newark endorses One Minute Cough Cure as the best medicine. He says it saved his little boy from pneumonia and that it cures coughs and all lung diseases with immediate, pleasant results. J M Nix endorses it as harmless and effective.
A reader testimonials a few weeks ago endured severe cold and a troublesome cough. After trying Coamberlain a cough remedy advertised in multiple papers, a bottle cured them before half was used. The Herald notes it as the best medicine for colds and coughs and lists Nix the druggist as supplier.
A wife crippled by rheumatism for over a month is cured after using Chamberlain's Pale Balm. The product, sold by J. M. Nix, is advertised as DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for piles and skin diseases. Beware of counterfeit versions.
The proprietors of Der Kings new discovery for consumption coughs and colds have given away over ten million trial bottles. It claims to cure asthma bronchitis lagrippe and all throat chest and lung diseases. Pfander Backrott druggists offer a free trial bottle. Regular sizes 50c and 1.00. Every bottle guaranteed.
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