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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1903
Page
2
Audubon notes show brief items of local life including banking offers from Davenport Savings Bank, visits by John Ward and John O Connel, business trips to Omaha, Des Moines, and Kansas, a marriage, a death, and civic events. The column records village activity, arrivals, sales, and social gatherings with multiple named residents and nearby towns.
J E Griffith and Laura Musson were married Wednesday at the bride’s parents home with immediate friends present. Rev Smith officiated. The groom, a town businessman, once ran the Republican and later entered the drug trade. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Musson, has bank experience as a former Commercial Bank bookkeeper. The couple have a home ready and will be at home in August. Mrs Applezate of Alexandria, Ind, credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing a long cough and lung troubles after other medicines failed. Trial bottles free at Nick Dofling &o’s drug store.
Paris Nature notes a paradox in arsenic, long vilified as poison yet described as a constituent element of tissues in all living beings. Professor Armand Gautier summarizes physiological and clinical observations showing arsenic as essential to life, despite its deadly reputation.
A Detroit Free Press note recalls a line from The Touch where a woman praises a book as devoid of materialism. The narrator sees on the title page the price of two dollars and fifty cents, deciding not to shatter his wife's illusions.
A brief Philadelphia Bulletin item notes a child named Willie asking how many commandments exist and the joke that breaking one would reduce them to nine, reflecting a lighthearted local moment.
The item notes a man starting as a saw sharpener and later becoming a dentist with a blunt jokey remark about his early training. It includes an ad for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and a sale notice by Niels DofMing Co.
A detailed account recalls Louis Napoleon Bonaparte’s audacious 1846 prison escape from Tam in 1846.Disguised with shaved beard a blouse and working clothes and wooden shoes he walked out carrying a hook to complete his disguise. He reached Valenciennes then London two days later. His physician staged a dummy in bed to fool the governor leading to a brief discovery and three months’ imprisonment for the physician. Within thirty-one months Primo Napoleon rose to become the first president of a French republic.
The article describes Bedouin water discipline, noting their abstention from drinking between days and expert knowledge of water sources. It then discusses rats, detailing their food discovery prowess, organized movements, and role as garbage consumers in cities, countering myths about rat bites and sewer-eaten dangers.
A fragment recounts Ellen Terry as a child playing Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and escaping a trapdoor injury with grit. It also includes a brief, dark joke exchange between two fishermen about being widowers and solitude, ending abruptly.
Mrs Jorgson closes a book and muses on the world’s curiosity while the blunt partner in the duo responds with a wry line about a single woman not being curious. The brief exchange captures a sly, humorous tone from Stray Stories.
A Chicago Tribune quote shows Mr Higgsworthy boasting that he swiftly got rid of a life insurance agent by submitting his own policy application as a means of blame. His wife questions whether he insulted the agent. The remark reveals a darkly comic frame on murder and deception.
In London Answers a mge reflects that the longer he lives and learns the more certain he is that he knows nothing. His wife retorts she could have told him that twenty five years ago, but says it would be of no use.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip recalls a husband and wife scene about coming home late. The fragment notes the wife talking while the man slept and jokes about strength and juggling weights of sons, reflecting period humor.
In Meissen Saxony the royal pottery works kept strict secrecy. a fortress like facility with a raised portcullis forbidding entry. Workers and even inspectors swore to silence with monthly formal warnings. A foreman secretly fled to Vienna while the family line faced fortune losses and gambling disputes.
A garbled OCR fragment recounts a chaotic scene with references to a noble with a title, a queen or noblewoman, and multiple unnamed individuals. The text hints at late night gatherings, singing, and improvised misdeeds, set around a feasting or social event with inconsistent names and actions.
Nonsense advice on drinking from a cork, purifying water, and peculiar remedies. The text shifts to whimsical lines about parrots and a misquoted sequence of phrases, ending with musings on marriage, prosperity, ambition, and disappointment.
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