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Newspaper
Ada Weekly Democrat
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1909
Page
6
An agriculture oriented note praises Quaker Oats as ideal for laborers breakfast. It extols oats sustaining quality for vigor and long workdays and notes packaging options from regular to large family sizes and hermetically sealed tins for hot climates.
Mose Coonley Abe Mokeby Jefferson Yallerby and Bill Bingy discuss cashing in as a bank run causes the institution to suspend operations. The banker Bingy laments the panic while the others push for their turn to withdraw funds.
A humorous verse from the Los Angeles Express urges a mother to return home from the club to prepare tea and set the table. The speaker complains the meal is not ready and questions the mother’s care. The poem tone is playful and domestic.
The head of the house had been ill for many months and had lost his appetite. The mistress tells the maid that the invalids want nothing and then refuse what is offered. The maid, a new arrival from the old country, comments on the pattern.
In a Judge's Library excerpt Henry protests his bath time, claiming his stomach need not be washed since no one sees it. He argues with his mother about the so called unnecessary work, revealing a humorous view of daily care.
The piece notes that the United States produces about fifteen million tons of a material annually yet many men still use nails to fasten suspenders to their trousers, illustrating a clash between industrial output and everyday habits.
A mother recalls how switching from coffee to Postum improved her nervousness and energy. After failing a first trial, boiling Postum for fifteen minutes produced a rich flavor and better health, allowing her to teach with ease. The letter endorses Postum as a healthier alternative for children and adults.
Dan Maitland battles a jewel heist plot involving a fake Maitland and his enemy Daniel Anisty. The girl in gray aids the theft, but Anisty dies after a gunfight as Maitland saves the woman and retrieves the gems. Maitland plans to spirit her away, aided by detective Hickey, with Bannerman revealed as a crook.
Maitland leads a tense chase through a dark building as police hurry behind. He bursts toward the top floors seeking Anisty while a bullet and a shattered glass panel signal danger. He reaches the door marked Henry M Bannerman Attorney and pauses, astonished by the office revelation.
In a tense scene Maitland steadies a frightened girl as the intrusive Hickey stumbles in from another office. He asks for a chair and water, then assists the girl to sit, while she accepts his help and watches him with quiet, desperate resolve.
A farmer tells a bitter irony about Mrs. Jack Frost seizing a farm yard from city roots. She sexed chicks wrongly, separating hens and roosters, and killed the roosters, creating a yard of fighting young roosters and crowing at sunrise across the county.
Women in Columbus and Graniteville report relief from change of life symptoms and nervousness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ads claim the remedy has restored health for decades and urges readers to tell others about it.
Dr Bertillon, famed French statistician, reports TB is twice as common among retail liquor dealers than other shopkeepers. He attributes this to the daily contact with alcohol weakening their bodies and increasing susceptibility to the germ.
An old advertisement promotes Allen’s Lung Balsam as a quick cough remedy available at all druggists. The copy suggests seriousness of coughs and urges immediate relief, framing the product as effective and trustworthy.
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