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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1907
Page
4
The brief appears to be the periodical’s masthead and entry details, listing editor Charles H. Vaughn, the Clinton Indiana publication, legal posting date, and the weekly rate. It notes the paper’s second class matter status and a 190- era subscription price and contact line.
Mrs Mansel Pleydell describes Moorish women using charms to gain or keep a lover. One method uses shredded fabric from a worn garment heated with charcoal to bind affection, while another involves donkey ear tips ground into a suitor’s food to induce folly and love.
A Chicago physician recalls a bitter winter night when two Wisconsin farmers sought help for a seriously ill wife. The veteran doctor offered care via his younger partner for free, insisting on a ten dollar fee. The farmers debated, one noting the funeral cost would likely exceed the fee.
The annual report of the commissioners of customs for the year ending last March notes the largest number of detected smuggling attempts since 1895. Despite lower tobacco and spirit seizures than the prior year, there were more seizures and fines totaling 21,900 dollars with 3,104 persons fined. Tobacco and cigars seized reached 11,222 pounds and foreign spirits 82 gallons.
A century ago whalebone held ten cents a pound with yearly U S imports around 2.8 million pounds peaking at 5.69 million pounds in 1853. Prices rose to a dollar per pound, then declined after 1860. total 19th century American whalebone landings surpassed 9 million pounds worth about 450 thousand dollars in present valuations.
Johnson tells Maria he will stay home to tidy the house and supervise chores while children are sent to grandma's for the day. The exchange shows concern for safety and domestic duties within the family.
Fragmentary OCR text mentioning a young heiress and plans to move to Hida. Confusing dialogue shows hesitation and possible travel or concealment. Readers see fragmentary names and temporary settings with unclear chronology.
A playful exchange centers on a spirited horse named Haw, with terms demanding advance payment for hire. A stubborn vender chides a hesitant buyer about whether the animal will return with or without its soul, signaling a farcical bidding moment in Stray Stories.
For sale saloon with steady trade. call on or write W R Batpwin Atherton Indiana for details.
We survey diverse medical camps and their claimed remedies from minute drug doses to barefoot walking and raw foods. The piece argues there are no universal cures and urges disease by disease treatment guided by experience and professional judgment.
A discussion of how right-versus left-handedness relates to eye dominance and brain centers for writing and speech. It notes that most children use the right eye for best vision and that forcing left-handedness may affect development.
A four year old boy on a Lenox Avenue subway car spent the day shopping with his mother and cried loudly until an elderly man asked if he had a father. The boy nodded and was urged to call him to give his mother a rest, ending the crying.
A romantic poem evokes a winter landscape as a bridal scene. Snow cloaks fields and hedges while stars and the moon light a lovers march. Inside, a fireplace glows as kisses and nuptial bliss mingle with the quiet beauty of a pristine world.
A speaker extols a bucolic ideal of farming with broad fields, sleek horses, and a life tied to the land. He envisions mornings planting seed and evenings dancing, with dairy and books as simple pleasures, while rejecting urban life as costly and distant.
A Kansas paper recounts a gaffe by a fussy groom who misaddresses notes to his Washerwoman and sweetheart on torn letters. A wrong envelope led to a silent, dramatic revelation as the bride read the blunder and vowed not to speak again.
Brown's Chapel correspondence reports a grand wedding last Sunday for Miss May Powell, eldest daughter of R L Powell, to Russell Duncan. Rev Coffelt performed the ceremony. E F Hudson and wife attended, with guests gathering from one house to the barn for the reception as rigs filled the road.
A Luther coin, uncovered in an old Novgorod house during reconstruction, shows Luther’s head and a pope with devil horns when reversed. The reverse bears a Latin inscription declaring Luther becomes a fool and the pope a devil by flipping the piece. The Berliner Tageblatt notes no similar coin exists.
A flat dweller complains that a constantly crying child disrupts sleep. He contemplates intervention by the board of health, joking about the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The dialogue reveals frustration and concern for personal well being.
A cautious Aberdonian answers a direct question about his father’s death with a cautious voice and a humorous reply. He brushes his beard aside and says the death was “nice” though sudden, admitting no prior warning. The anecdote illustrates wary reticence in1930s dialect humor.
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