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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1893
Page
5
The speaker recalls a festive moment as Grandmother blushes and unlocks kisses kept for Christmas revealing a warm family scene narrated with a stately tone. The exchange hints at holiday cheer and tender emotions amid seasonal reverie.
In the Pinyon mountains of Nevada Sam and Tom drill a winter mining drift and reveal a rich find. Tom falls gravely ill during a nine day chinook thaw and dies on Christmas Eve as Sam buries him on a knoll near the cabin. The next summer Sam returns to develop the mine named Dead Man's Find for Tom and fulfill the mother's last wish.
Mrs Brown jokes about a turkey as a gift joke about washing it down. Brown answers that the turkey is a raffle prize and has already been washed down.
A Boston Herald piece recalls a late start, a nail in a shoe, and a day of sour mood. A tiny tack triggered crossness, missteps, and broad social ripples, illustrating how proportion and humor temper life’s daily irritations.
A Philadelphia Times anecdote recalls a society girl seeking a wrap pattern for her aunt. Lacking size data, she learns her aunt is 45 years old, revealing why size guesses fail for clerks in the dry goods department.
In 1830 in Paris a law student was kicked by a king's officer for tearing placards. By 1879 the officer, Patrice de MacMahon, resigned as president and bade farewell to Jules Grevy who then succeeded him, with congratulations on the election to the presidency.
Advertisements tout cures for rheumatism and neuralgia claiming rapid relief within days. D. G. Higley druggist offers 75 cent dose packages in Fairfield. Another ad promotes Shilohs Vitalizer for dyspepsia liver and kidney issues with a satisfaction guarantee from Bradshaw and Thoma.
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