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Newspaper
Democratic Northwest
Location
Napoleon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1890
Page
2
A collage of comic vignettes and snippets from newspaper pages features quotations on commerce and manners. Jokes about customers, clerks, and shop talk mingle with odd anecdotes, headlines and captions from various papers, highlighting witty asides on daily urban life and retail humor.
A Kentucky well near Burkesville in 1829 yielded a vast oil reservoir at 800 feet. Gas explosion sent tools out and oil rose to tree tops then formed a river along the Cumberland. A downstream fire ignited about forty miles below, alarming residents who feared judgment day. After three weeks the flow ceased, leaving millions of barrels lost though later marketed as American Oil embrocation.
A garbled collage of product claims and humorous quips from an old newspaper page. It mentions Syrup of Pgs and Cal Ple Syrup Company, references to Texas Ma, a murder tally, medical notes, a London hospital claim, a brass band serenade, weight gain claims, Dr Foote, and various snippets about jokes and consumer goods. The text intertwines ads, anecdotes, and medical opinions with scattered names and events.
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