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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
6
A business leader argues that social welfare follows from rational self-interest in employer worker relations. He asserts strict business conduct, rejects sentiment, and praises mutual benefits, wage increases, shorter hours, and a worker suggestion bureau benefiting 3,500 employees and lowering production costs.
The article urges young girls to prioritize education over social leisure while living at home. It advises limiting dissipation to Friday and Saturday nights, requiring early bedtimes, and respectful handling of callers. It notes that daughters cannot safely choose husbands while in school and should focus on studies until maturity.
A fragment of oratory urges America to unleash moral imagination and national will to fulfill its ideal. It calls for character, purity, loftiness, and sacrifice to justify global expectations and expenditures.
Mrs Joannah Straw of Canton South Dakota aged 81 reports relief from three years of rheumatic limb pain and backache after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She says she is now as well as a 50 year old and enjoys better work, appetite, and sleep. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Philadelphia house party tale shows a clergyman observing a young guest test bread with a broad bite then offering a humorous grace. A Maine village prayer meeting ends with a deacon invoking the Lord is no respecter of persons amid Miss Simpkins’s death.
Mrs. Blank cooked for a week and earned an ermine cloak from Judge Blank on Pacific Avenue. The tale circulated among social circles, spurring envy, as Mrs Jerome asked what she would receive for cooking a week. Jerry Jerome quipped a crepe veil as the reward.
A Piermont New Hampshire mother recalls severe eczema on her son from infancy to age four with the disease covering most of his body. After trying patent medicines, she used Cuticura three-product regimen and saw marked improvement within two months and full recovery in six months. Her testimony dates October 24, 1905.
A former boarding house tenant, once mistreated, rises to success as a popular dentist and exacts revenge by opening a rival practice opposite the boarding house. His bold window advertises steel pointed boarding house teeth as a specialty. The excerpt also includes miscellaneous old jokes and an advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure.
A young American barber in a men’s cafe encounters an Englishman who mocked Yankee business practices. The barber soap and reads while the Englishman asks to be shaved, then learns he must go upstairs for his “share.” A surgeon’s quip about a long journey ends the exchange.
A mother asks Uncle Josh whether to cultivate Daisy's singing voice. He advises starting cultivation and then settling it with seed, noting the locals’ warmth and his discomfort with their cold steam heat.
A group of traveling men in a Chicago hotel boast about sales and fame. One drummer claims no house in the country has more men and women pushing its line of goods than his. When asked what he sells he shouts baby carriages and then flees.
A reader testimonial extols Grape-Nuts and Postum as healthier, noting weight gain and better digestion after quitting heavy meat. The correspondent cites personal gains from 95 to 126 pounds and a 68 year old neighbor improving digestion, with a call to read The Road to Wellville.
A gossiping scene features Mrs Highflyer noting her husband Georges alimony troubles and her tactic of writing a threatening letter to induce a reconciliation. The dialogue also includes quips about Belinda’s love and a telephone gag.
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