11 Jun 1908
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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
1
The advertisement promotes Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a reliable laxative. It claims the product cleanses and relieves internal organs without debility or increasing dose, and notes physicians approve its safe ingredients. It urges buying the genuine California Fig Syrup Go product from leading druggists.
A London paper recounts a bishop in a small country town noting scarcity of good servants. Awake early, he heard a soprano voice singing Nearer My God to Thee and praised the hostess. Her reply, boiled eggs by three verses for soft and five for hard, reveals a witty hymn tale.
Testimonial notices Levi P. Brockway of Anoka Minnesota recounts five months in a hospital where doctors could not cure him. After using Downs Kidney Pills he reports improvement and credits the product. Sold by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo New York.
In the Youth's Companion excerpt opinions on the proper length of the workday are debated. The piece notes laws set eight to ten hours but skilled leaders still put in long hours to run businesses. It argues eight hours for work, play, and sleep is insufficient for ambitious men and warns laws alone cannot shape labor practice.
The piece argues against home ownership for men under 60 unless they prosper, claiming debt from a home purchase burdens families. It weighs renting versus buying, noting monetary factors like interest and taxes, yet emphasizes nonfinancial benefits for the family in a owned home.
A Toledo Blade excerpt urges strict thrift in buying a home, noting lower spending for children and the long term gains. It argues that economies teach the value of a dollar, create genuine home life, and allow permanent improvements and memories that rent cannot. The piece emphasizes the deeper rewards of ownership over money alone.
Seattle Daily Times laments the two happy classes: workers who meet simple needs and the born educated wealthy enjoying leisure. It argues middle class regret, and contrasts the daughter of a multi millionaire with that of the poor, noting unfulfillment in idle luxury and the dullness of retirement without purpose.
A Scotsman column notes a leech kept in water predicting weather. Motionless at bottom signals fair skies, while rising to the vial top indicates rain. Wind is foretold by the leech racing about its container until strong winds begin.
Beatrice Grimshaw notes a Talitt method to open coconuts. Native workers split young nuts with a ground stick and drink freshwater, which is sweeter and purer than commerce coconuts. Old nuts are avoided. half grown nuts yield several pints, providing nourishment during tropical travels.
The speaker critiques a man who shows much pity but rarely offers real help. He appears conspicuously generous yet avoids genuine aid, inviting others to view his supposed kindness while withholding substance.
A New York Journal quip notes drowning men grasp at straws, while Townes remarks that some drowners favored pranks. The piece also observes girls pursuing boys here, pushing boys to seek mothers’ parlor spaces for socializing instead.
Queen of Actresses praises Peruna in a boastful endorsement. The fragment links digestion to nerve health, claiming impaired digestion weakens nerve centers and causes nervous debility. Julia Marelowe is cited as the endorser in the clipped text.
Mrs J C Jamison of Wallace California credits Peruna with curing six years of stomach trouble described as nervous dyspepsia after doctors failed to provide lasting relief. She pursued a liquid diet then Peruna, taking several bottles and reports being entirely cured as the remedy addressed digestion and catarrhal congestion.
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