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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1911
Page
5
An old advertisement touts kerosene burners and gasoline gas lights as the best current illumination. It emphasizes instant light, high brightness, and wide use from stores to homes, noting a hand light and a costly but convenient installation. It invites readers to learn more about lighting options and their pros and cons.
A collage of jokes and anecdotes from a vintage paper scene features spoof letters, editor’s quips, and light humor. It includes brief gags about a college president, editors, and daily life, with ribbing on language flaws and social foibles set in a folksy, period voice.
The New York Tribune notes that Staal children in Russia often lack joy in butterfly catching, a belief among peasants that fragile insects are the earthbound souls of the dead angry for sin. It asserts peasants teach children that torturing souls is wicked, fostering a lifelong superstition.
Fine stock farm for sale three miles northwest of Clermont. 155 acres total with 125 under plow or meadow, remaining rolling timber land with good timber. Farm features a main house, cellar, pantry, wagon shed, two barns, hog house, and other outbuildings in fair repair. Pasture fenced, two springs, large orchard, warm farmhouse, and outbuildings suitable for a farm at a moderate price. Possession March 1, 1911. Price fifteen dollars per acre with favorable terms. rental option available if not sold soon.
A verbose promotion for The Electric Handy Light highlighting its versatile, eyesafe, hands free operation for home offices studios hotels garages and public spaces. It claims utility for writers editors machinists tailors typists physicians and students with claims of superior light and eye protection, ending with the slogan the light that never failed.
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