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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1899
Page
4
The article allegorically discusses training cavalry horses for obstacle courses with emphasis on rider harmony and decisive action. It also reports a bountiful southern quail season despite heavy rains, plus a Paris Exposition sports preview and a note on football finances at Harvard.
A mixed set of anecdotes and verses from a late 19th or early 20th century periodical. It includes a tale of Frederick the Great rewarding a faithful page with money after a concealed thank you note, a hunter showman’s quip on a wild horse, a Lincoln lad outsmarting Lord Tennyson, a child’s honest question about pinfeathers, a poem fragment by Edith M. Thomas, and humorous exchanges about spelling and dolls, ending with classified ads for cheroot makers and tobacco products.
An ad proclaims kidneys cause more diseases worldwide and cites symptoms such as back pain insomnia and urinary changes. It touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure, offering samples and a free book by mail from Dr Kilmer Co of Binghamton NY in an appeal printed in The Durhara Recorder.
Fine ocean steamships leave Norfolk daily except Tuesday at 6 PM for New York direct. The service offers through passengers from the South Southwest and West a chance to visit Richmond Old Point Comfort and Virginia Beach en route.
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