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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1903
Page
7
Carlyle writes about a teacher whose demanding standards and engaging method set him apart from typical instructors, highlighting how rigorous teaching can feel both grueling and inspiring to students.
Mary Proctor, author of Five Hundred Little Worlds in the August St Nicholas, is the daughter of astronomer Proctor. She lives in New York City and is a quiet, shy woman who has proven successful as a lecturer and writer in her father’s field.
The fragment touts Defiance Starch as unmatched in quality and quantity at 16 ounces for 10 cents, urging readers to try it and save money. It also mentions Red Crom Ball Large packings and a cryptic line about injuries on ice and kindness in stone, concluding with a social aphorism about wealth reducing worth.
London musicians complain foreign competition limits English work. There are 300 orchestral bands in London this season, mostly with aliens. English players must masquerade as Germans or Belgians to gain steady employment.
Russell Sage plans to leave his longtime Fifth Avenue residence after forty two years due to nuisance from nearby businesses. A candy store and a second shop with a large ice cream parlor fan create deafening noise while a smoking parlor smells permeate neighboring windows driving his relocation to the former mansion of Charles Broadway Rouss.
A woman describes quitting coffee and switching to Postum with dramatic health gains. She cites relief from chest pressure, palpitations, headaches, and digestive woes after two weeks without solid food and a return to skim milk, noting no medicines were used. The message urges readers to contact Postum Co for contest details and extensions.
John Pranklin saloonkeeper in Oyster Bay New York keeps twenty seven brook trout in a 165 foot deep warmed tank fed by well water. After four quarter kegs were dumped into the pool at 7 oclock the fish rampaged slapping against kegs and leaping from the tank. An escaped bung emptied a keg of beer and the next day the trout lay calm under the spout with one dead.
The article notes eye color statistics from Europe and America with blue and gray as lighter hues for men and women, claims gray or blue eyes dominate literary figures from Shakespeare to Brontë, and highlights notable historic holders like Catherine the Great for green eyes.
The article promotes fasting as a quick cure for stomach related ailments and indigestion. It argues many illnesses stem from the stomach and that a rested digestive system aids recovery. Milk diets are seen as protective by reducing dietary stress rather than the diet itself.
Edward Everett Hale argues in Cosmopolitan that a universal 70 plus pension of 100 dollars a year would not burden the state. It would keep aged citizens in homes with neighbors and relatives, reducing asylum loads and alms houses by boosting family care through small stipends.
Harry Sanderson of Cranford New Jersey thought a tramp asked for a meal and set him to sawing wood. The supposed worker earned a meal but the shed’s wood remained untouched. villagers later learned the visitor was a ventriloquist heading back to New York from Easton Pennsylvania.
Readers urged to believe and try Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure for various ailments. The letter urges women to abandon alpesados and seek the medicine, claiming thousands of cured testimonials and advising writing to Mrs. Pinkham for advice.
The August St Nicholas issue asks girls and boys to send letters and drawings from beach findings and to submit brief articles on recent books for young readers. The contest seeks to train observation and discrimination and highlight lesser known titles from the last two to three years.
An old advertisement touts Bromo Quinine Tablets claimed to stop coughs and colds. The copy notes a price of 5e and features a bold aphorism about the master’s eye doing more work than hands by Frank Lin.
Bishop Potter urges preservation of civilities in American life during Lawrenceville New Jersey school founders day address. The piece also includes quips about modesty, law, money borrowing, and snippets promoting Defiance Starch and Love as a lens for viewing others.
A concise quotation notes that kindness remains the sole acceptable charm for age and the soft coquetry of white hair, reflecting on dignity and appearance in the elderly.
Defiance Starch promotes a 16 ounce package with a money back guarantee and a price of 10 cents. The ad urges customers to try the product now.
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