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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1903
Page
6
A call to reform argues that the Girls Industrial School and Woman's Prison share a building, overcrowding and mis fitting facilities for girls. It urges moving the girls to a cottage plan farm, separating facilities, and amending the law to end homeless girls being sent there. It cites scandals from mixed confinement and advocates humane reformatory aims.
The editorial urges the Legislature to act to achieve results, questions Denver's incorporation, notes England's troubles with Colonel Arthur Lynch's treason verdict, warns Germany over Venezuelan forts, and cites David J. Ryn of Lincoln New Jersey praising Harts Honey and Horehound for a baby's croup cured by W L Piper Drug.
A 1903 dramatic sketch titled A Dream by Melvin L. Severy appears in The Public on January 24. The short scene features Satan and his first assistant in a domain that mirrors the famous paradox of preferring rule in hell to service in heaven.
A dialog between Satan and his assistant portrays a new revolution on earth driven by expansion. The assistant reports a nation sending many subjects with a misery called expansion, the symptom being overconfidence in rising while actually falling.
A fragmented dialogue excerpt shows an exchange about political bodies and allegiance. Mentions a republic renamed as the United Trusts of America and ballots in dollars. References a fictional August Presence and a business inquiry to an unnamed Most High.
A curious note extols a machine that cuts, pastes and hangs wallpaper and lauds Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. It claims it has helped many with grip bronchitis pneumonia and consumption and guarantees every bottle, with trial bottles offered free by W L Piper, Druggist.
A dramatic dialogue fragment depicts a monarch and an assistant debating ignorance and a nation called The United States of America. The speaker references Nero and suggests a royal pardon for personal illusion while questioning colonial ambitions.
An old advertisement touts Ayer’s Pills as liver pills claimed to cure dyspepsia and biliousness. It promotes the product with a 28c price and notes availability from all druggists.
Oran Hammond of Leroy Illinois credits Harts Honey and Horehound for curing his lung trouble after trying other medicines. The product is advertised as effective for croup, whooping cough, cold onset, deep seated cough, and sore lungs. Sold by W L Piper, Druggist.
In a playful exchange, students joke about a canary going extinct as a cat is blamed. The dialogue reflects classroom humor with Teacher and children named Bessie and Dick.
Ad promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve for cuts wounds burns and sore feet with claims it relieves pain and cures trouble. It touts salve as best on earth and notes 25 cent price from W L Piper, Druggist.
LOCAL TIMETABLES Lake Erie & Western shows through tickets to all U S and Canada. Trains from Denver depart northbound No 20 at 10 40 a m No 22 at 3 49 p m No 24 at 10 43 p m southbound No 21 at 6 57 a m No 24 at 1 11 p m No 25 at 6 59 p m No 21 and 22 run between Indianapolis and Laporte on Sundays.
East bound schedules show No 110 passenger at 7 46 am No 108 at 7 03 pm No 164 local freight at 9 00 am West bound lists No 103 passenger at 12 01 pm No 109 at 8 10 pm No 163 local freight at 3 30 pm J M Curesnoxoucu A G P A St Louis Mo CHas MORCOMBE Avent
Trains depart Union Station Peru Indiana on the Wabash Railroad with listed eastbound and westbound departures. Eastern Ex via Montpelier leaves at 4 12 am and 8 Buffalo Mail via Montpelier at 7 17 am among other daily services. westbound includes Kansas City Mail at 7 20 am and Western Express at 10 30 pm. ticket agent J. J. Skinner.
Timetable snippets show routes between Peru Richmond and North Judson with departure and arrival times. Agents C Ro & M Peru and F Signer W B Calloway G P A Richmond listed for ticketing and rates.
Contents announce GeLett Burcess and Witt's The Picaroons a San Francisco Night's Entertainment a clever readable set. Cyrus Townsend Brady a famed sailor author offers a serialized novel on Sir Henry Morgan the Last of the Buccaneers. Parson's will publish Jackson's Quarrel with Cethoun a long deferred explosion and consequences.
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