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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1907
Page
7
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes that in Russian villages wives are bought with prices ranging from 25 to 200 dollars. The article cites that daughters of working classes fetch the lowest price while those from better families command higher amounts.
An English visitor in Newton observes boys shoveling snow for pay after a heavy storm. The tale contrasts English views with American practicality, praising self help and democratic spirit as boys work to clear driveways, amid talk of future wealth and national character.
The article describes Mount Washington forecasts and Pike's Peak scenery with a focus on the electrical displays at the summit. An observer notes that despite storms lightning danger is low due to granite insulation and mentions a ball of fire entering the station, a saw being struck, and two men left amazed as a railway now reaches the peak altering the frontier romance for tourists.
Major Putnam Bradlee Strong recalls General Lawton confessed to fear only once in his life. While riding past Paco Cemetery in Manila with his 12 year old son Manley a Montana detail buried a comrade. A California detail had run out of cartridges and fired half loads. The sergeant ordered ready fire and bullets crossed the grave wall, missing Lawton by inches. Lawton later called it the only time he remembered being scared.
A humorous exchange overheard in a Chicago Tribune grocery creates a sense of truthfulness for readers. A child asks for ten cents worth of cheese and cr cracker offers a quarter as compensation, quipping about cutting too much.
In a prayer meeting a Boston medical student offered a definition of sin as the transgression of the law, while the pastor replied with a paradoxical definition of sin as the metamorphosis of transformation and a diagnosis of devitabilization.
The railroad president hears a complaint about a brakeman who calls station names loudly. The spotter explains the brakeman often enunciates station names clearly. The president concludes it is a violation of rules and fires him.
A witty exchange notes a shirt without buttons, joke about wearing buttonless garments since wife joined the Cause of Women. A light, humorous line from Transatlantic Tales.
A dialogue excerpt shows novelist Z arguing against profit claims and Y suggesting businesslike disclosure by showing books. The exchange highlights tensions over tax perception and literary authorship.
A student named Bummel nearly drowned while swimming yesterday. The bailiff passed by as the boy remained under water for an extended period, prompting questions about how the incident occurred.
On his wedding day Baron muses over a 500000 mark bounty to cover debts and fees. He notes 420000 to creditors 30000 to the matchmaker and 50000 for themselves before they pursue a divorce.
Roosevelt avenue resident B Frank Doremus recalls severe kidney trouble in 1897 with swelling in his left leg nearly 34 inches around. After Doan's Kidney Pills the swelling subsided the urine normalized and pains vanished. He has been well for nine years. Sold by dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A remark about impropriety in the countryside provokes a response favoring a more proper drawing room setting. The exchange suggests social tension over public versus private space in the narrative.
A comical 19th century misfit scene shows a woman asked to choose between two suitors. One is noted for two divorces, but he owns an automobile, prompting a witty demand to see the car before commitment.
Consumers are urged to buy Sted Cross Ball Blue for best results. The ad notes the product is available at leading grocers for 5 cents.
A boastful Argus claims a hundred eyes while skeptics mock his ability to spot an old soldier at the end of a car platform. The creature is left silent and abashed.
A piscatorial lover asks if you can fish and is told no and that all fishermen are liars. A counterpoint notes that not all liars are fishermen.
The British Empire covers 11,386,344 square miles. The United States including Alaska and all islands spans 4,326,884 square miles.
A brief transatlantic tale captures a moment between two friends. The remark About painting Diana reveals underlying curiosity and playful suspicion as one character teases the other about chasing the painter upstairs.
A maid asks to delay the ball as the mistress plans a party next week and to learn waltzing, reflecting domestic life and social routines in Transatlantic Tales.
A miscellany reports on vegetarian Japanese women and Greenland hair practices. It notes walls weathering during rain and steel behavior at various heats. It mentions teddy bears with lighted eyes and a Dublin officer promoted after triplets. It also recalls Polynesian wedding custom and Russian interrogation methods.
A Tippecanoe Indiana resident reports two years of severe eczema on limbs below the knees resisted by physicians patent medicines and quack cures until using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Patient C. V. Beltz states immediate relief and recovery by November 15 1905.
The largest frog is now stated to be Rana goliath from the Camerons with a head and body measuring not less than ten inches. Previously the largest known lived in the Solomon Islands.
Advertises free pamphlet with synopsis of U S homestead laws and guidance to secure land along new Chicago and North Western Railway routes in South Dakota and Wyoming. Notes special excursion rates for homeseekers and directs requests to W B Knis kernel, Passenger Traffic Manager, Chicago.
A Chicago News quip notes daily poolroom tips circulate, but the strongest advice remains to stay away from the pools and their temptations.
A thief gathers valuables but hesitates to flee when a golden haired child sleeps, and departs without disturbance. The scene from a Philadelphia Ledger blurs lines between fiction and crime. A teething syrup ad promotes Mrs Winslow's Syrup at 26 cents a bottle.
The narrator cites Old Mother Hubbard fetching an empty cupboard and the Poor Dog wondering about his fate. The Old Lady replies that one benefits from living in times of unexampled prosperity, a wry Puck commentary on abundance and expectation.
A brief quirky quote from the Philadelphia Public Ledger notes a woman’s vanity and a humorous aside about a rat in her hair, reflecting playful social commentary. The line contrasts traditional female pride with an unexpected domestic aside.
A hostess welcomes guests at a summer cottage and says dinner will be ready soon. She volunteers to check with neighbors for an extra fork, reflecting casual hospitality in a Detroit Free Press item.
A vintage grocery advertisement promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry powder at 5 cents per package, urging readers to keep garments white as snow.
A German scientist develops an automatic sea collision system using Hertzean waves. Miniature wireless telegraphy units on ships operate within a thousand yard range. When two ships approach in fog and are equipped, they exchange warnings at 1,000 yards and automatically halt engines.
A physician warns appetite is vital to health while a thrifty man notes worry shifts from health to expense, illustrating a clash between medical concern and frugality. The exchange, reported by the Washington Star, contrasts health anxiety with cost awareness.
Mrs Luschman expresses frustration at a late intoxicated husband. He explains a messenger boy delivered news from a friend who foolishly sent him home. The Philadelphia Ledger quotes the exchange as a domestic anecdote.
Bert Trim, a thirty year old blind resident of Woonsocket Rhode Island, is an expert whist player and valued club member. He uses a special embossed deck barely detectable by touch but enough to identify each card and performs on piano and cornet in local entertainments.
The Earl of Buchan, a social favorite and famed flirt, pressed to depart with old fashioned courtesy telling the prettiest young lady to remember that Margaret, Countess of Buchan, is not immortal. The thoughtless never are harmless.
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