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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1900
Page
12
A Burdette essay critiques shop window display culture, noting Europe’s noisy, crowded windows versus American restraint. It pokes fun at chronic shopping fixation while praising artistic arrangement in European displays and their influence on urban retail aesthetics.
The writer laments pervasive advertising in America and compares it with continental practices. He recalls paying railway fares in the old days and contrasts prices, calendars, and daily life, noting how Americans resist giving away promo items while Europeans sell every item. He reflects on meals, economies, and a theater program amid travel memories with Phocion Howard.
The essayist muses on Cologne’s St Ursula's ossuary with 11,000 virgin martyrs and bishops, contrasts American burial customs, and extols the Rhine's legends over plain history. He admires the river's mythic history, the bones on display, and the region’s enduring storytelling.
The narrator rides Federated Imperial Brewing cargo boats from Cologne to Mayence on the Rhine. He notes heavy beer aboard yet all beer ends up inside passengers who relentlessly eat and drink, joking about the Teutonic drinker and the rumbling mystery of beer consumption on Rhine steamers. The piece blends travel anecdote with humorous cultural observation.
A store window in downtown sells hundred of tiny chicks for 15 cents each housed in a coop display. Shoppers wonder about buyers and uses as owner says customers take them home as pets for children and to start a country flock, though they will not die of old age. Also a bloodhound in Brownsburg injures a man during a performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin and is shot.
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