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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1905
Page
6
A historical advertisement from Wyman & Co. highlights year round sales on shirts drawers and underwear for men women and children at deep discounts. It touts silk taffeta wraps undergarments hosiery jewelry perfumes hats fans umbrellas and a varied gift department with low prices and frequent promotions.
Readable fragments describe luck charms like a rabbit foot and horsehair in pockets for luck and hair. a call to inaugurate a household thought experiment with officers. claims of buying more goods at Wyman's and selling cheaper than rivals. overall aim to offer goods cheaply.
The passage notes a proposed rate of one and one third times the fare for round trips within 150 miles. It mentions dates around Thanksgiving and references a limit and return terms. The text is fragmentary and unclear about the exact entities or destinations involved.
Herbert Vivian narrates a Strand Magazine excursion to Roumania's salt mines at Slanic and Doftana. He describes modern mining methods preserving pillars, subterranean basilicas, perilous bridges, and glowing gas fires. Visitors witness vast stony cathedrals, angelic echoes, and surreal scenes of miners like insect crowds in a Br Broadway vision.
The organ uniquely sustains tones allowing long suspensions and polyphonic lines. Pedals enable bass emphasis and grand, extended harmony. English organs lacked pedals, shaping Handel’s lighter style compared with Bach’s monumental organ music.
After 1862 at West Point Cozzengs hotel a judge filled in for a missing player and paired with General Scott. They were soundly beaten, provoking Scott to quip that he had learned his opponent’s latent talent and was not playing with a natural born fool.
Liszt recalls a feud with Mendelssohn accusing him of jealousy and failure to grasp his complexity. He recounts altering passages in Mendelssohn’s G minor concerto and Mendelssohn’s alleged inability to perform Liszt’s works, leading to vilification.
The Harvard Dental School orthodontics clinic in Boston trains specialists who straighten crooked teeth and repair jaws to improve function and appearance. Patients come for fractured jaws treated from inside the mouth, often enabling better livelihoods, with daily cases of jaw fractures noted.
The Ma jorana telephone bids to extend long distance use by transmitting audible vibrations too faint for standard receivers. A device uses sulfuric acid in a capillary tube to regulate current and alter transmission as acid concentration changes. Experimental work spans Paris to Rome with a Berlin to London test achieving clear speech through Paris.
A Russian mill delegation, in a courteous tone, informed the superintendent that they had decided to assassinate him. The spokesman said the men voted that way and they wished to tell him to avoid hurt feelings. The director, amused, soon left the city to avoid action.
In the last fiscal year deposits in New York savings banks rose by more than 85 million dollars. in the past six months the increase was 52 million. The piece praises savings banks for safeguarding vast sums and contrasts them with insurers, noting over 1.252 billion dollars under their care and commending their prudent management.
The New York Post notes teachers expurgate Dickens and rearrange high literature for public schools. A high school class is assigned to read and critique a story by Auwthorne, focusing on nutrition rule violations and writing an assessment.
Oxone, a form of sodium peroxide, is described as tablets that release over two cubic feet of oxygen when placed in water. The article suggests using a few tablets and water to improve breathable air in confined spaces with poor atmospheric conditions.
A historical note traces the fork from Italy where nobles used iron or silver forks in cutting meat to England where the utensil was ridiculed as effeminate. It recalls 1611 observations of Italian dining customs and cites writers Beaumont, Fletcher, and Ben Jonson mocking forks before their broader adoption.
The piece explains viz as a corruption of videlicet with a terminal z mark. It notes writers differ on its form and origin, and that the sign was never intended to be a z, yet is now fixed as such and likely to remain in use while writing persists.
The Rev Myron Leiall faced nerves and baby noise in his new parish at H. He advised calm, then ten young girls minded the infants in the Sunday school room. Freddie Smith spiked gumdrops with pepper causing a churchwide stampede and the nursery never reopened.
A clever Philadelphia physician cannot smoke cigars without illness. At a New York dinner, all men smoked except him. The host quips that he loses half the dinner by not smoking, to which the doctor replies he would lose the whole if he smoked.
The Catholic Standard and Times reports a witty dialogue about misidentification. Cholly says Miss Veppry confused him with another, while Miss Sharpe recalls her reaction and notes she impressed her with the puzzle’s apparent simplicity.
A clipped Philadelphia Press exchange shows Vera and Mr Stammerton in a shy dialogue about a sudden confession. The dialog highlights hesitation and coyness in a social moment.
A fragment from the Detroit Tribune captures a conversation about feelings after a first meeting. The speakers debate the consequences of an early kiss, pondering whether meeting at all would have been better or worse.
A brief cartoon style panel appears with the Doctor noting his wife’s past as a lawyer and the Jones character asking what she does now. The Doctor replies that she tests his patience in a light domestic exchange from the New York World.
Obliging. Gebhart and Carson exchange light quips about a spouse in a casual Chicago News excerpt. The fragment hints at a plan or joke set far enough away to discuss openly, reflecting a conversational tone within a press page.
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