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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1897
Page
8
A fragment from a 19th century column quotes witty banter on love and rivals, with snippets of overheard conversations and advertisements. The scene features flirtatious exchanges about tickets, parties, and a man who might try to win a girl’s attention, set among crude humor and brief product notices from the era.
A garbled political passage shows a member seeking privilege and recording rights while the Cincinnati Enquirer notes a door interruption. An ad promises 100000 in gold to subscribers of American Home and Garden and asks readers to write for details. A dental remedy exchange ambiguously references a youthful romance with a light moral plea.
A reader recounts twenty years of drinking ending when his wife used a product named Anti Jag. He claims sobriety and asks for the remedy by mail from Renova Chemical Co., 65 Broadway, New York, offering to pay one dollar or receive free full details.
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Hage as a quick cure for corns bunions and swollen feet claiming instant relief and comfort in tight shoes. It promotes mail order samples and lists Le Roy New York as the address for trials and druggists and shoe stores as sellers. Also notes New York horse show and mayoral race briefly and mentions Boer families often numbering sixteen to seventeen.
A fragmentary dialogue portrays a teen amusement with coy responses and a refrain of just sixteen. The stilted exchange features a speaker pressing for affection while the other character responds with playful insistence on age. The quirky line reads like a period voice snippet.
A Brooklyn hospital janitor nicknamed Billy, long trusted in surgery, heard a voice from a coffin and fled in fear. He later speculated a ventriloquist trick by a student, noting the improbability of a corpse speaking.
A young man with neglected education heads to a church wedding carrying a bundle. He insists the bundle is his present for the occasion, boasting a card that reads Present at the church, prompting a friend to chuckle at the miscommunication in this Boston Budget anecdote.
A quirky aggregation of humorous exchanges from era newspapers includes a half-shot orator debating microbes and anti-toxins, a jab from a smiling bartender about insects, and other light lines. A German tenor, a manager, and a girl named Peggie appear in brief gags from Cleveland, New York, Detroit, and Indianapolis papers.
A satirical montage from a 19th century press mocks gender roles. Soubrette lines and a heavy villain clash over dating, work, and fashion. Quotations lampoon male boss talk and women’s independence with period newspaper tone.
A newly married man recalls a visitor returning from South Dakota who congratulated him and wished him many happy returns, prompting light conversation with the bride about the remark in the Washington Star.
A drowning man clutches a straw and cries for a whisky punch to gain strength to reach shore. A stream of bubbles marks the spot where he sank as observers discuss sensational carriages and papers in Brooklyn.
A kinder class near Crystal Palace discusses Methuselah. A bright pupil answers that Methuselah was the longest man who ever lived, following a session where children offered various responses to the biblical question. The humor touches on celebrity autographs and playful phrases about angels.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer item, a very short description notes Mrs. Van Dyke, a tiny woman, perched on her husband’s desk while he writes. The gag says he uses her as a paper-weight, a remark echoed by humorous contrast about Ham mere retiring to pursue literary yen and writing applications for engagements.
A Cleveland Leader quip notes that a visitor avoids rich relatives because their wife complains for weeks about not being as well off as the hosts. The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune laughs at the idea of abundance versus skill, joking about a queen with many pianos.
A rich uncle warns Harold he will start smoking cigarettes himself and shorten his life by at least ten years to push Harold to quit. The Indianapolis Journal reports the curious sales pitch as a turning point in a family ultimatum.
Northwestern inventors received several patents including John Uetz Jordan from Minn for a vegetable cutter, Reuben Disbrow of Owatonna for a combined churn and butter worker, Herbert Freaman from Pierre for a hat holder, and Victor Hinger with Slay Tom Mion for a steam baller. Also listed is Winney Sprague from Minnesota and RG Sprague of Cedar Rapids for an evaporator. patent lawyer Y D Merwin located at 110 Pioneer Press Building, St Paul. The page shows a fleeting, chatterlike interlude about a boy and his father and a fishing trip.
An advertisement describes relief from bilious complaints and liver distress through Hostetter's Bitters, claiming rapid, lasting restoration of digestion and skin tone. It also promotes Cannarets Candy Cathartic as a constipation cure and notes a British regimental change adding the word Chittral to colors, plus a Trappist monk burial detail.
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