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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1911
Page
8
A boastful exchange features Puffman-Sir claiming self-made status and Blunt-By George commenting on the other’s appearance and aptitude for making things. The dialogue showcases a brash, informal confrontation.
Mrs H Albrecht of West Point Nebraska recalls her baby Gilbert’s severe eczema. Sores covered his face and ears, he scratched at night. After two Chicago doctors failed, Cuticura Soap and Ointment were used, giving clear skin in four weeks and a healthy head of hair.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are advertised as regulating and invigorating stomach liver and bowels with sugar coated granules that do not gripe. The text also claims fashion can drastically alter women's appearance.
A child narrator contrasts parental advice to save and study with adults like Mr. Jones who lament wealth inequality. The poem rails at wealth hoarding, envisions future power over a university, presidency, and national ruin through critic Taft era politics, ending with a wary view of fame.
A Sylvan Glade Summer hotel guest accuses landlord Mr. Meddergrass of switching to a quaint rural dialect when speaking to certain boarders. Meddergrass admits that paying extra on the week influences the language used with those guests.
A humorous dialogue about a man touting a hair tonic with bold claims and dramatic ads. He promises testimonials from famous literary, dramatic, and political figures but admits uncertainty over the product’s actual content or market name.
A man complains about Kenry James while holding a large book and mispronounces a title. Another man on the porch asks about the confusion, noting a copy of the diciuitary by mistake.
First promoter urges forming an air ship company while the second frets that ships won’t float. The exchange hints at a plan to float stock despite doubts about feasibility and practicality.
Winnipeg Free Press canvass of Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta farmers for 1911 shows cost of production and freight at about 68 cents per bushel with selling price around 97 or 89 cents depending on grade. Despite poor August weather and high harvesting costs, total wheat output reached about 35 million bushels valued at roughly 31 million dollars.
Practical tips for home care and cooking including oiling clocks with cotton, using bed spreads as cloths, making bath mats from fabric scraps, reusing baking powder cans as choppers, cleaning mills with dry crackers or rice, steaming velvet bows, shaping knitted garments on hangers, baking pumpkin pies in patty tins with whipped cream, saving fruit juices for frosted dishes, puffed rice balls as snack, and storing steel knives wrapped in tissue to prevent tarnish.
Poem lines describe clouds passing over the sun and the earth shining brighter after rain. The speaker urges endurance through shadow to reveal true light and strength arising from confronting wrong.
Wilson explains the split while Bitson cites his wife joining a cooking school as the change. The exchange highlights a personal reason behind the breakup and hints at shifting domestic roles.
Seasonal tips for households including meatless options with olive oil cream and butter, keeping a house purse, fragrance in cookies, a child’s broom for tight spaces, dual calendars for dates, lace ruching from old lace, tinting lace with artists paints, ironing damp to refresh handkerchiefs, using a bag wrapped broom to clean carpets, and drafting letter points before writing to avoid omissions.
A disoriented man seen zigzagging up Broadway at dawn confuses a policeman at Thirtieth Street. When asked his home, he says he is out of town and cannot name a hotel, claiming his stop might be in Cleveland or New York. The brief incident appears in the New York Sun.
A Baltimore waiter told a patron he was studying French because a Paris hotel proprietor offered steady work if he could speak it. The man insisted the skill was needed to understand Baltimorean wait staff as the Paris hotel sought clear French from its staff.
Jack saves young widow Mrs. Wiles from dangerous surf. His aunt predicts another rescue as the situation unfolds in this seaside incident cited by the Boston Transcript.
A medical warning about chest tightness signaling a lung illness and urging use of Hamlins Wizard Oil to prevent consumption or pneumonia. The text advises against attempting to understand women and suggests this leads to failure.
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