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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1913
Page
2
A varied stream of satirical lines touches on fashion, science, politics, and daily life. Observations range from the impact of rising prices on milk and cocoa to jokes about police, jury duty, and the role of women in society, all in a light editorial voice.
Edwin Lander visits Scarvin's to buy a Christmas present a rare English poetry book for Marguerite Fenton. He then sends roses to Alice Gleason, recalls their old friendship, and seeks a human connection over his rising social life. At his Fleet Street lodging he confesses weariness and asks Alice if there is hope for him, finding life’s value in love.
English folk belief holds that on Christmas Eve at midnight the Christ child returns to earth. Mothers may take a sick child to the door before midnight and wait for the hour. If the child recovers, it is said the Babe of Bethlehem touched it with healing fingers. If the child dies, the mother is soothed by the thought the child was called to be the Christ child’s playmate in heaven.
Thousands of Ohio youths from Cleveland Cincinnati Columbus Toledo and other cities travel by Pennsylvania Lines trains to Washington D C on December 1 for the Buckeye Boys Corn Special. Winners in the Buckeye Boys corn growing contest tour Pittsburgh Harrisburg Philadelphia and the Allegheny Mountains with state officials and commission members, meeting President Wilson and others.
The French Gazette des Hopitaux cites Francis Garnier from 1873 describing opium’s pull on animals in China. Bees fed on poppy blooms vanish after two seasons, and rats in an opium refinery died awaiting fumes after a refinery closure and reopening.
Several electric railway companies including Detroit and Philadelphia use a delicate machine for weighing transfers. The device can count items weighing from 125,000 ounces to 15 pounds, with capacities from eight to six tons.
In a vaudeville exchange a blonde asks what was done on Crimson Gulch circuit. LT sang, the other blonde replies. The husband performs a sharpshooting act and by preceding her on the bill she gains polite reception.
A captioned vignette describes a baby displayed to admirers in best bib and tucker. A final visitor remarks the child resembles his father, prompting a witty reply from the mother that warmth explains the cheerful, handsome appearance.
Hewitt delivers constant singing at work while Jewett stars in a grand opera company performing in stage pieces.
A short exchange in the clip shows writing to Charlie about engagement rumors. One friend notes Helen has dumped him, prompting another to drop him a line.
Dialog fragment shows a social plan among men referencing wives out of town and a gathering tomorrow night at a house with a ten cent limit. It captures a vintage social tone and implied domestic humor.
A devotional study surveys Joshua 7 11 on Achan s sin and Israel s defeat at Ai. It links personal disobedience to national consequence and warns against blaming God while urging sanctification and neighborly responsibility.
Gossip from her era portrays Miss Burdet-Coutts as a perpetual object of marriage offers. The article notes she spurned the Duke of Wellington and many peers, earning the title of England’s glittering matrimonial prize for years.
A farmer defeats a conceited agriculture expert in a verbal clash. The expert boasts of education at two universities, one in the United States and one in Germany, but the farmer remains unimpressed as the debate spirals into a humorous tale about farming mishaps and misused credentials.
In a lively chat, Ethel recalls Jack vowing to kiss her or die attempting. Kitty asks if the kiss occurred, and Ethel quips that Jack is not dead yet, implying the dare did not end in tragedy.
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