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Newspaper
Farmington Enterprise
Location
Farmington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1908
Page
6
An old Harper's Weekly exchange notes Brown arriving with no funds a decade ago and now maintaining his position. The quip suggests he has kept his own despite starting with nothing.
A playful moment during a walk shows a sister and brother joking about fruit themed nicknames. She mentions a strawberry on her arm while he retorts his peach on his arm, highlighting lighthearted banter between siblings.
A humorous exchange notes a supposed laziness germ and prefers a satirical solution of gratifying laziness rather than killing it, attributed to the Hebrew Standard. The snippet reflects editorial wit about science and self-indulgence.
Mrs Framley and her friend discuss the cat show closings and playful poultry questions. A farmer's wife jokes about whether a hen’s cackle signals laying or lying, mixing playful quip with rural curiosity.
The Knight Campbell Music Co invites names of friends who want a piano. If an order is secured from referrals, $5 in gold will be awarded. Provide full details in plain writing. Address: 1625 31 California St Denver Colo.
A Houston Post quip plays on the biblical camel needle image. The speaker jokes that his wife is so large she goes through his pockets regularly, delivering a humorous personal aside.
A London Mansion House fete moment features Queen Alexandra pausing to kiss a shy flower girl named Molly who explains she did so to “tell my grandchildren.” The anecdote appears in Harper’s Weekly. Also included is a 19th century hog cholera report from Burnetts Creek Indiana and a Dr Sloan’s free book offer for livestock care.
A preacher cites the biblical Job in a lecture describing how Job endures spiteful trials from the devil. He mocks Job’s patience as the growling grows with boils, smallpox like afflictions, and a hurricane that destroys his house. The tale ends with Job bargaining for boils, not a hurricane.
A Chicago surgeon credits Postum with steady hands and better sleep after years of coffee use. He describes improved circulation and relief from tremors and insomnia, endorsing Postum as a safer national drink and noting the product’s boiling directions and a brand slogan.
More than 100000 signatures bearing a Swiss League petition urge the federal council to block mountain railroads and hotels in the Alps. Proposals include tunneling the Matterhorn and laying a glacier sledge railway on the Aletsch glacier, sparking strong Alpine club opposition and backing from Britain’s Alpine Club led by Sir Martin Conway and Whymper.
Shelly Sherr of Belleville tried peroxide of hydrogen on the advice of a friend and his hair faded from raven to a variegated straw burlap look. The transformation worsens daily with no remedy in sight as he endures the gradual change. Prof. David Eugene Smith reports unusual travel experiences in the orient and notes Buddhist priests showing interest in his mathematical manuscripts. He has obtained several Burmese manuscripts and will add valuable casts of numerical inscriptions from Calcutta to his collection.
In Rising Sun Maryland a farmer named Henry Burkens found nine snake eggs while sawing an old tree and planned to present them to the Philadelphia Zoological Garden. He fried the eggs into sandwiches and left them in a feed box as bait, only to discover the box emptied the next morning with bread crusts left on the floor.
The claim that onions heal many illnesses prompts questions about the actual remedy. Nutrition and traditional uses vary, with no universal cure-all proven by science.
An ad extols Truth and Quality laxative syrup as a superior remedy for the family. It claims the product cleanses and relieves internal organs without debilitating after effects and notes it is manufactured by the Caltable Syrup Co and sold by leading druggists.
A Boston group led by W N Hartshorn selects annual Sunday school leaflets distributed worldwide in many dialects for 40 dialects India alone. About 500 million leaflets released yearly reach Europe Africa Asia and the Pacific with farm seed and other notices interspersed.
Mrs Mary E H Rouse of Cambridge New York recounts a five year struggle with back and hip pains after a fall. Kidney discoloration weakness and weight loss followed until she used Deans Kidney Pills which brought rapid relief and full recovery. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A minister hosts a tea talk about who to meet in heaven, with Mrs Inthe swinmy admitting reluctance to meet Eve, saying she would not speak to her. Separate ad copy touts Cuticura remedies for eczema and a note on nobility titles proposed to curb foreign marriages.
A letter from Mrs. Sallie French of Pancannla Indiana testifies that after seven years of fetal troubles she was restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts the remedy as a standard treatment for female ills including displacements inflammation and irregularities and invites letters to Mrs Pinkham for free advice.
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