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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1904
Page
3
Poem about seeking the first spring flower in sheltered dell and sunny hillsides. Reflects on beauty, life, and endurance as petals bloom despite pain and distraction. Includes a satirical aside about advertising in newspapers and a joke about boys eating peanuts in church.
A collage of verse and vignette: bayou imagery and a modern mock opera in prose prompts, a Missouri divorce quip and geographies joke, and a light jab at health and humor. The pieces mix idyllic sunset scenes with comic and domestic lines.
The note extols Defiance Starch as unrivaled in quality and quantity and mentions it being sold widely. It also discusses peasant homes sharing space with animals and a plan to beautify Black Country in England by planting trees on industrial waste sites.
A home tip explains cleaning delicate laces by laying them on cotton under a glass bottle in Ivory Soap warm suds for an hour. Sun exposure may lift stubborn stains. A Parisian barber named Eleanor Ik Parker supposedly shaved a man inside a cage with a lion watching, for a wager.
A miscellany reports a $100 reward offer for a cure claiming catarrh is cured by internal treatment and strengthened by the remedy. It also includes stray notes on ostrich age and plume yield, a quip about temperaments by age, a pie product ad, and a controversial brain weight comparison.
A garbled page of early 20th century advertisements and notes mentions Kilne's Creag Nerve, Defiance Starch, Piso's Cure for Consumption, Mrs Winglow's Soothing Syrup, metal works by G. & Shannon, and a Victorian tip about repelling ants with wintergreen or wormwood branches.
In Milan cooperative restaurants a plate of soup costs 1 cent and beef 6 to 7 cents. A westbound sales pitch promises satisfaction with Defiance Starch and a money-back guarantee. Sponge fishers near Tunis test submarine boats while Colombia's commerce largely uses US currency. There are 155 women commercial travelers in Great Britain.
A Norwish angler landed fourteen pike weighing a total of 17 pounds in three hours on Rockland Broad. The report notes the largest fish at 7 pounds and 9 ounces.
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