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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1908
Page
3
A playful exchange contrasts fashion and marriage with witty lines about attire. A wife teases a husband about buttoning gowns while a later joke pivots to a mock promise of revealing imagined events. The brief sketches mirror light social satire.
A famous figure being driven in Derbyshire was stopped by a police officer who asked him to remove a mask frightening witnesses. The man replied he was not wearing a mask, creating a humorous misunderstanding reported by The Tatler.
A sharp Philadelphia Ledger quip contrasts a woman’s last word with a street car seat exchange. The remark highlights social etiquette and humor in everyday transit.
Ms. B R Buphham of Roswell New Mexico reports success using 20 Mule Team Borax as a spray and wash to rid Leghorn houses of lice claiming it eliminated pests and reduced fire risks in poultry houses. The note appears amid a roundup of weather anecdotes and a mood quip about horses.
A Baltimore Sun poem notes that love unites two individuals into one, yet soon a new life makes the family count rise to three. It uses clever wordplay to describe marriage and pregnancy as a logical paradox resolved by time.
An advertisement extols Grape Nuts as a perfect food capable of saving a failing baby and sustaining healthy grown ups. A caregiver recounts doctors doubting condensed milk, credits Grape Nuts with reviving the infant and claims the product promotes health for all ages. Includes testimonial about preparation and a plug for Read The Road to Wellville.
Collier's Weekly notes the new East River bridge as a dramatic leap in engineering, offering double the traffic capacity of the Brooklyn Bridge with a longer span and taller towers. Four massive cables of 7,696 wires each support the structure, built to last beyond the old era of stone ends.
In a 19th century Atlanta Constitution snippet Old Si explains the race problem as a social trap. He argues white beings fear losing status and asserts Black people only care about work and meals, declaring personal equality is unattainable. He notes white men fear being treated as equals and ridicules the idea of shared food.
A vaudeville humor note tells of Ajax defying lightning with a rubber neck earning $500 a week. The Milwaukee Sentinel notes Tillman recounting a SC alibi case where the defense earns praise from judge as the best of four offered.
The Commissioner of Corporations questions if an 18 cent rate discriminates against oil shippers while noting other commodities were charged lower tarifas. He highlights President Moffett’s failure to produce grand jury evidence of alleged illegal acts claimed by a Standard Oil official, comparing with other large shippers in the territory.
Scant readable lines show a congressman objecting to stage cues and asking to replace laughter with gouging and baiting. The fragment references a Pittsburg Post quotation and a line about bromine quinine sanative cough remedy. The note mentions E. W. Grove and a World over cure claim with a 25 price reference.
Eph Green asks to purchase a razor claiming it is for social usage. A clerk questions safety as Green insists the item is needed for social purposes. Announcement offers free homes in New Mexico and cheap land in West Texas and Oklahoma through Western Homeseekers' Association in Prague Oklahoma.
A quirky trend in fashion blends nature inspired motifs with surreal patterns. Designers showcase items that imitate animal coats and plant textures on hats, challenging traditional style rules and provoking mixed reactions from observers.
A member of fashionable circles in the National Capital, praised for wit and height, married last spring to the daughter of a well known Federal official. A friend notes the husband seems shorter after marriage, while the wife replies he is settled and married. The piece also cites quotes from Harper's Weekly and Sterne.
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