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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1911
Page
6
An ad style excerpt mentions Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a remedy first introduced forty years ago. It claims the pellets regulate and invigorate the stomach liver and bowels with sugar coated granules. The piece blends humor about headaches and a comic quip about marriage and a baseball player relation.
A Wisconsin creamer y manager reports quitting coffee and switching to Postum improved digestion heart palpitations and mental sharpness. His wife followed the box directions and after several days the man noticed better health and office performance with no coffee on the table.
In a Royceton lawn party story, Miss Florence Harland meets Mr. David Belding and Miss Harland's teacher role shines as old hurts surface. Martha Brandon's confession spurs forgiveness leading to David and Florence joining life. A second vignette shows a boy puzzled by his portrait, wondering why his head isn’t perfect.
A nostalgic account recalls children roasting eggs and meat in embers of a wood stove or fireplace. Eggs were wrapped in damp paper to protect them, heated on live coals, with steam released by a pinhole. The passage notes similar roasting of small birds when game was scarce and praises childhood joys.
An advertisement urges use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment for skin and hair care. It highlights benefits for clear skin soft hands and healthy hair and promotes a free Cuticura guide mailed by Potter Drug & Chem. Corp.
A brief dialogue notes a man with little sense after he borrows a ten spot this morning and the woman comments on his cleverness or lack thereof. The exchange is casual humor reflecting everyday street talk.
Sydney decorates a discarded millinery hat with a long red ostrich plume. Her mother tries to tuck the feather away, but Sydney insists she wants to see it herself, noting others often only notice others’ feathers. The exchange captures a child’s self perception and playful vanity.
A juror claimed exemption for deafness at an assize court per the London Times. The judge privately asked if he was very deaf, the reply being yes, and the judge advised the witness box would be spoken to softly. Separate notes include humorous lines from Case and Comment and Harper's Weekly, plus an advertisement for Garfield Tea promising liver and blood purification.
A country household boarder laments no letters arriving for her. Melba the pet brings a worms filled chip to Miss Alice, declaring the postman failed to deliver letters and thus sparing the girl from eating garden worms.
A vivid scene from the Cleveland Plain Dealer imagines Rembrandt and Michelangelo playing checkers beneath a sunlit tree in the Elysian Fields. The dialogue focuses on a paid price for a painting and the painter’s financial readiness, ending with a light note on the game continuing.
The piece extols varnish as a sanitary, easily cleaned floor finish that keeps dust from the air. The National Association of Varnish Manufacturers offers a free booklet "Modern Floors" from Philadelphia to show how to make and keep floors wholesome. It argues varnish is cheaper and better than carpet. It ends with a social reflection on marrying for sympathy and the idea that many brains go unused.
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