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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1900
Page
3
Mrs E Z Benomme of Cohoes New York testifies that her hair was thinning and turning gray rapidly until using Ayer's Hair Vigor. She claims the product restored her hair to its natural color. The dated signature is April 21 1899.
An older hair product ad promises to erase gray hair in less than a month using Ayer's Hair Vigor. It alleges the scalp stays free of dandruff stops hair loss and aids thick growth. A $1,000 bottle is advertised through druggists.
A miscellaneous humor column sketches quips and witticisms about temptation drinking and social gaffes. Notable gags reference Stubb and Fenwood with a bottle of French brandy, illustrating early 20th century humor in a Chicago Daily News flavor.
A street tramp tells a passerby he has seen better days, then the man retorts that the speaker should not blame him for it and adds he is not the weather man. The brief exchange plays on miscommunication and character without further action.
A humorous clash in language contrasts traditional liveried servitors with a lord who discovers a motor carriage replaces horses. The Chicago Record captures a wry exchange where a servant insists the car is awaiting, prompting the noble halk to realize the vehicle is an automobile.
A brief dialogue adapts a domestic kitchen moment where a mother urges her son Willie to eat his soup and he jokes that half would still be better than he has. The snippet reflects a simple, everyday scene from a historical periodical.
A brief excerpt from the Indianapolis Journal depicts a teacher instructing Johnny on self defense replies after a 10 minute talk. The dialogue suggests turning the other cheek and a counter strike if attacked, framed as a blunt moral lesson from a period newspaper.
A brief Chicago News item captures a quarrel exchange between Mrs Bruggs and Mr Bruggs. The argument centers on personal faults, with dialogue about shifting subjects and ongoing disagreement.
A humorous column notes two exchanges on smoking and punctuation. Myer questions tobacco use while Gyer jokes that quitting made days longer. An employer asks Miss Jimms about typewriter etiquette, who explains she adds a comma after breaths and ends every page with a period.
The Chicago Tribune notes two additional responses published to The Man With the Hoe reflecting ongoing engagement with the poem. The exchanges involve the weary world motif and debate over the work’s social critique.
A health warning cites moldy layers of outdated wallpaper and paste as breeding grounds for smallpox. Doctors urge replacing with sanitary coatings like Alabastine, a rock-base cement that binds to walls, is inexpensive, and helps render rooms safe and livable again.
The John M. Smyth Company of Chicago has grown from a small local supplier to a nationwide mail order enterprise selling wholesale at home prices. Their 1000 plus illustrated catalog images, produced by color photography, bring Curtains Carpets Draperies and Wallpaper to distant customers, cutting out middlemen and saving costs. References include any bank or express company, or any Chicago resident.
A Cape Town appeal from Africander Bond members urges Americans to aid wounded, widows, and orphans in the Boer War. George W. Van Siclen, American treasurer, notes prior donation and directs subscriptions to C. C. de Villiers in Cape Town for aid to the South African republic and Orange Free State. Funds to support Boer wounded on British American hospital ships are explicitly denied.
U S Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana visited Nagasaki during a Philippine trip. The 35 year old congressman walked the town unseen, paid a call on the U S consul, and endured a comedic moment when mistaken for a clever impersonator. An American officer later identified him, and the visit ended with an official dinner.
In a brief exchange, Young Curate asks Giles about church attendance while Farmer Giles jokes that traveling to church wears out two soles, playful banter that highlights parish life and rural humor.
Fragment from Detroit Journal notes Walter and Hildegard as lovers mocking readers by using a portrait as frontispiece. The passage reflects a wit about readers and authors, with other-era ad blurbs and humorous quips mixed in about cures and social advice.
A Mining and Scientific Press report describes minute diamonds forming in carbon steel during production. A 300 gram piece yielded an insoluble graphitic residue after nitric acid treatment, later dissolved by acids, leaving graphite which melted with chlorate of potash. Under iodide of methylene, octahedrons formed and burned on platinum without ash.
A playful item evokes a century of age jokes and quick quips. It blends a Le Monde Ilustre line about aging with a New York World punning exchange. Amber Pete features in a regional humor thread and a dating banter background.
List of patents issued to Northwestern inventors includes Carlestine E. Blake Minneapolis for a disinfecting device Ira L. Gleason Hutchinson for a fire-escape Corwin Johnson Watertown SD for a cream separator Knud Lerol Jr Newburg Minn for an anchor and tension device for check-row coin planters Patrick Mulloy Ardoch ND for a spice cabinet Emil Rohilffs Spencer SD for a draft equalizer Edwin C. Washburn Minneapolis for a draft-rigging brake beam Nils Wig Alexandria for a horseshoe Merwin Lothrop Johnson Patent Attorneys 011 912 Pioneer Press Bidg St Paul.
A historical note from Golden Penny recounts Bartholomew Diaz leading two ships in 1486 to seek an ocean road to India. Eleven years later Vasco da Gama pursued the voyage, discovering Natal on Christmas Day and naming it accordingly.
A short dialogue from the Detroit Free Press features a Boston youth seeking an office boy job. The boy asks for a weekly wage of one hundred dollars but expects to earn about three dollars, prompting a terse exchange about pay.
A wry note on flirtation and social play where a coquette withholds agreement until it serves no purpose. The line about a best play not rising above the head of the gallery gods hints at theater or social performance and disdain for showy spectacle.
Working women are invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham for free health advice about painful periods backaches and other illnesses. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is advertised as reliable for suffering women with confidential letters from Lynn Massachusetts offered.
One hundred dollars reward offered for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Advertisement from West and Wholesale Districts, Walding, Kinnan & Marvin Ohio. Cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Free sample pills offered with promise of safe, reliable treatment.
In a humorous Indianapolis Press note, the Savage Bachelor jokes that a young woman cannot drive a nail. A boarder asks why, and the Savage Bachelor quips that a woman's hammering skill is limited to allegorical use, delivering a light, period-voice barb.
The Detroit Journal notes the butter lobby was larger and more influential than the oleomargarine lobby and that pure food legislation prevailed. It recalls a satirical exchange where Butter asks How's the battle and Cleomargarine replies the battle is to be reconciled, illustrating civilizational discord.
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