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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
3
Lizzte Lohr of Chicago writes about years of night sweats and poor appetite, says doctors suggested surgery, and credits Dr Hartman and Peruna after four months of treatment. She is a widow with six children and says five bottles of Tenmna were taken. She offers to share details with interested women.
A London Answers item tells how a policeman at a children's fancy dress ball refused admission to an adult mother. The woman argued her child was dressed as a butterfly but wings were forgotten. The officer stood by orders and advised she go as a caterpillar.
In Yrecocity Mrs Tucker explains aerylites as fragments of a planet that drift into Earth. Tommy counters with a joke about ballast the man in the moon throws out to stay aloft. Also mentions Mrs Austin's pancakes.
A exchange questions the cost of a Jersey cow replacing an automobile. The reply notes the cow saves on repair costs, offsetting feed expenses.
Uncle Allen remarks that when someone claims the country is going to the devil it is their method of blaming the Lord for problems. The rant frames moral judgments as excuses for discontent and religious criticism.
A collage of comic lines from Philadelphia Inquirer Baltimore American Chicago News Yonkers Statesman Punch and others. Jokes hinge on courtship money theater and social pretenses with banter about engagements chauffeurs and households.
Dr Evans, a witty Melbourne MP, is humorously recalled as belonging to Queen Anne's era. During a speech he invokes Queen Anne and receives questions about her. He replies that he did know her, and that the scholar is contemporary with all time.
A New York merchant recalls a westbound customer sharing a water trip and a missing school badge. The pair discuss a castle image on a cafe wall, the Muaitese cross badge with C D L initials, and the Rhine boat Elsa. The badge is found and promised to be returned.
A terse dialogue between an elderly customer and a young clerk reveals tension over flirtation and age. The exchange hints at social attitudes inside a busy lunch counter setting.
G W Winney of Medina invites kidney sufferers to write for a testimonial. He claims Dean’s Kidney Pills cured his back pain after eighteen months in two hospitals. He weighed 143 pounds before and 162 after using 10 to 12 boxes. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The crescent origin story links Byzantium s defense against Philip of Macedon to a night attack reveal by a bright moon. After repelling the siege the crescent became the city s badge and later the emblem of the Turkish empire, seen in public squares.
A Philadelphia Ledger quip notes a sharp exchange about manners and seating on a streetcar. The line features a woman’s insistence on speaking last and a gentleman offering a seat as a courteous counterpoint. The public phrasing underscores social etiquette in transit contexts.
Despairing youth George pleads to marry Julie yet she hesitates asking if this time counts as a proposal. He presses, she pauses, uncertainty hangs over their exchange.
A father tells his son that he does not always travel first class, only that he always pays the first class fare. The exchange highlights frugality and choices in travel.
Winnipeg correspondence declares Western Canada soil highly productive with excellent grain yields despite late sowing and August frost. In Southern Alberta about 100000 acres sown to winter wheat promises large yields. The letter from Craik Saskatchewan cites a dahlia bloom 80 days after planting, illustrating soil productivity. Government offers 160 acres free for homesteads. entry can be by proxy through a relative.
In Bacon Ridge a village editor and postmaster describe a publicity stunt where Hiram Brown advertised city boarders at $2 a dozen to attract customers. The twist reveals Brown is the village photographer, not a boarder provider, and he offered large lot reductions.
One hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo. Walden, Einan & Marvin endorse the firm, claiming 15 years of honorable dealings. Cure is taken internally and sold by druggists. testimonials free. price 75 cents per bottle. includes a constipation remedy suggestion.
A Detroit Press blurb cites a tale of marital strife with a wife leaving her husband for an orphan asylum. It notes a prize bulldog valued at 4000 dollars, and reports a push to develop diamond cutting in Cape Town with US growth. London hotelkeepers report shorter guest stays and lower spending.
Advertising a full range of rubber stamps including self-inking daters ink pads and inking pads. Offers catalogue by mail to Lock Box 219 Fort Wayne Indiana.
The Dundee Advertiser recounts Whistler’s lack of business sense as he avoids debt by asking a friend to check his bank balance. The friend learns Whistler has more than $30,000, yet the artist forgets when or how he obtained such funds, responding with astonishment to the figure.
Charles F. Merriott of Fort Wayne writes that after long asthma spells while working as engine driver on the Nickel Plate Railway he tried Father’s Lung Elixir. He reports relief within 26 hours and returns to duty in four days, endorsing the remedy for lung troubles, with price details and address for orders from Lock Box No. 219, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Uncle Jasper contends the banana tree caused mischief, not the apple, remarking that troubles come in bunches like bananas. Deacon Dewberry questions the reasoning as the elder notes how troubles arrive in clusters.
The text notes Jim Gruet’s absent minded habit and mentions a routine contact with his office. It highlights meat and fruit shortages affecting purchases and promotes Mrs. Austin's pancake flour as a thrifty breakfast option. It also comments on German army mattresses stuffed with paper rolls as an improvement over straw.
Mrs Winslow’s Teething Syrup is advertised to ease teething for children by softening gums reducing inflammation and easing pain with wind colic relief priced at 25 cents a bottle.
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