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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1913
Page
2
A string of wry aphorisms critiques fashion, manners, and science. Jokes touch on velvet ties, mistaken hunting deaths, fake foods, music versus piano playing, and the lure of wealth. The piece comments on youth, dress trends, and odd substitutes like pig skin.
A string of light anecdotes and observations covers diverse topics from law and romance to fashion and economics. Notes include a railroad dispute over a trunk, tango as a winter fad, rising snake prices, education costs, and blunt social quips about Yuan Shih kais political stance and Dutch wooden shoes. The column blends humor with social commentary on daily life.
Johnny Ward, eight, crippled from a street accident, longs for a football for Christmas. Doctors debate how to gift him a symbol of normal boyhood without hurting his mother’s feelings. Dr. Keith ultimately buys a pigskin football and considers how to present it to the patient.
In a hospital ward Nurse Blair battles with doubt over Johnny's recovery as he clings to a football and hopes for healing. The widow Mrs. Ward brings gifts and seeks a sign of miraculous progress, while Johnny secretly shows his mother his Christmas surprise and wiggling toes. Dr. Keith witnesses the hopeful moment.
Willie, surrounded by well meaning aunts and uncles, chooses not to break his father’s gift pledge. After Christmas, his family offers many toys but he opts to keep his season ticket for baseball, valuing the promise over material gifts.
A devotional exhortation urges readers to lift their eyes to the great meaning of the day and view humanity as divine, worthy of offering to God. It calls for a complete, unreserved offering and living anew in divinity as Christmas marked the birth of humanity.
An old style health beauty blurb touts obesity tablets claiming rapid fat loss and a dramatic body makeover. The text mixes marketing hype with casual observations about marriage and belief in a husband’s knowledge.
Many children grow ill and a popular remedy is advertised. Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders claim to break up colds in 24 hours and ease feverishness headache stomach troubles thin disorders regulate bowels and destroy worms. The ad notes 25 cents and claims 24 years of use with samples mailed to Frer address Le Roy New York.
A humorous quip plays on the phrase friendship by noting Jones is always in need, prompting light hearted laughs about loyal companions.
Mr. R. M. Fleeneer Otterbein Ind writes he suffered kidney trouble for 25 years and inflamed bladder. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills for two boxes he is recovered and recommends the remedy. Ad promotes Dodd's Medicine Co Buffalo New York and offers free household hints anthem and recipes.
French dressmaker Paul Poiret told a New York reporter he does not deal in morality but in beauty. He recounted a story of a young lady in a white dinner gown under a blazing electrolier asking her fiancé how her dress shows. He quoted the fiancé replying that it shows up almost to the knee with white silk stockings and gold clocks.
A New Jersey man ends a family dinner with guests from Philadelphia as his eight year old son, previously quiet, stands to request another story. The boy's timing and response delight the crowd, adding a bright moment to the gathering.
A light remark about a friend seeking soft things turns grim as the punchline reveals he is in a padded cell. The exchange casts a wary tone on mental health and restraint.
A wife recounts switching from coffee to Postum after warnings of caffeine effects. She notes improved health and skin tone as the household adopts Postum, except her husband who eventually tries it too. The ad promotes Regular and Instant Postum with preparation hints and claims.
The lesson reviews Joshua 14 1 14 and Caleb’s claim to Hebron after 45 years of waiting. It links Caleb’s steadfast faith to the Golden Text seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. The passage contrasts faithful endurance with choices that led others to failure and connects Caleb’s strength at eighty five to God’s sustaining provision.
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