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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
8
A summer visitor, Mayor Bedight, is chased by ten laughing girls through the Woods. One girl kisses him and the group later forms a court to sentence him to follow the bidding of each girl for ten days. A pamphlet opposing woman suffrage used to compel obedience. First day features May Andrews. The sheriff warns of consequences.
Judge Jackie Vining watches a bewitching July night as Mayor Bedight helps Miss Mabel Arney flee after a cheeky escapade. A chaotic chase ends with jail, a jail break by boat, and a carefree escape downriver amid village mischief and romantic tension.
An excerpt notes Wantage as a village since Alfred the Great, perched on hills near Oxford, contrasting it with the idea that villages become cities with time. The passage recalls a hoary druidical wood, rocky eminence, and soil turned for building the year of Christ’s birth.
An American missionary in Burma gives palm killer to villagers to ease an epidemic. They later worship the bottles as a god, arranging them on a shelf as a shrine. The scene ends with the villagers prostrating themselves before the display. The report also notes cornstalk huts seen near Cairo and Bedouin camps along the Mahmoudieh canal.
A dialogue contrasts views on prize fighting. One man argues the sport is brutal, while another defends it as disciplined. He praises prize fighters who refuse to take fights for nothing and insist on substantial purses of thirty to forty thousand dollars.
The Rev. Edmund Heslop of Witon Pa suffered a year from dropsy with swollen limbs and heart fluttering. After using Dodds Kidney Pills his swelling subsided and he felt renewed. He remains convinced by the remedy and notes no change in faith in it months later. Correspond with Rev Heslop about this remedy and other Dodds products.
Uncle Hoy defines a snob as a wealthy person who buys veneer culture abroad and returns home posing as a connoisseur while snubbing poor relations. Eddie asks why the query, noting Donald’s big brother call.
Fragmented ad copy and quips appear, discussing constipation cures, skin salves, laundry blues, and child teething syrup. The jumbled text includes product names like Dr. Pierce's Pellets and Cole's Carboli salve, with stray lines about cooking and thrift.
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