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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
3
A fragment ad style notice touts Mrs. Austin's Pancake Flour as cheapest breakfast option with constant price claims. It weaves in various line ad jingles about cures and cosmetics, cautioning readers on gendered power and social norms while asserting stable pricing at grocers.
Farmer Barnes boasts of buying a barometer to predict rain while Mrs. Barnes jeers at the expense saying the good Lord gave rheumatism for weather sense.
The Pacific Coast Borax Co offers four water color pastel pictures free to introduce 20 Mule Team Boraxo Bath Powder. Printed in ten colors on 14 by 17 inch sheets, the art would sell for $1 each if available in shops. Send a postcard to Pacific Coast Borax Co in New York City for full information on obtaining them.
Postmaster General Buxton proposes a small mourning border stamp issue as a trial. If unpopular with mourners, collectors may drive value. The Prince of Wales, a major philatelist, recently bought a blue Mauritius two-penny stamp marked Post Office Mauritius for $7,250.
Mrs. Marie Sipfle of 416 Miller St Elena Montana reports relief from a three year history of backache and kidney trouble after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She credits four boxes with a complete lasting cure and notes the product is sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. A seed catalogue note follows about plant and vegetable crops.
Charles McCormick of Kenville Manitoba reports 100 acres with 80 acres wheat at 22 bushels per acre sold at 0.90 a bushel and 20 acres oats at 60 bushels per acre sold at 0.35, totaling 2004 dollars with net profit over 1600 after expenses. Thomas Sawatzky of Herbert Saskatchewan notes wheat value per acre at 22.50, threshing 1750 bushels from 70 acres, oats 500 from 15 acres, and barley 80 from 5 acres, praising district prosperity in Western Canada.
A reflective note on teaching as a divine calling that energizes youth. It frames education as a path to redeem defeat through new thought and firm action, aiming to spark purposeful effort and enduring improvement.
A New York winter campaign seeks to restore dignity to Newport society. The old set plans to lead a return to formal luncheons, dinners, balls, and parades, ending the era of monkey dinners and improvised entertainments.
Paris sees rapid rise of English tea rooms beyond Neale's once sole venue. Spots offer tea with four to six English specialties, light meals, music, and fashionable ambiance. French women may visit alone, marking a social shift noted by Travel Magazine as an English contribution to female emancipation.
A New Haven shopkeeper, famed for scolding clerks, erupts when told there have been few sales. He boasts to a customer of abundance downstairs, prompting the customer to laugh and depart. The clerk explains that the customer said there has been no rain lately, prompting the storm of misunderstanding.
The piece traces home brewed cures from teas and tonics to the shift toward standardized patent medicines. It notes Peruna’s Mennonite origin, Hartman as original compounder, and its rise from physician remedy to mass produced drug. It concludes with an unrelated gun question from the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Borus laments a favorable reception for his current farce and questions a critic's advice to write one more before retiring. Naggus, the editor, clarifies the critic meant Borus should write one more and then quit.
A Bakersfield California grandmother describes her seven year old granddaughter's severe itching and bleeding sores after measles. After trying various remedies the child improved within twenty four hours of using Cuticura and was fully cured in five days. The report dates from June 25 to July 20 1906.
An elderly, white-haired man in an English club in Hong Kong reacts with fury after a letter addressed to him in Chinese is marked by a hall porter as “for the old baboon with white fur.” The man, a first class scholar in Chinese, confronts the porter after a hurried descent to interview the staff.
An investigated anecdote recalls a UPenn expedition to a Southern state to view a solar eclipse. A professor promised a slave named Tom that the household chickens would roost at 11. Tom, astonished, learns the joke a year later that the chickens were not yet hatched.
New York residents now spend Sunday dinners at hotels and eateries turning meals into four hour events. Demand was so high yesterday that many establishments refused accommodation and reservations must be made days or weeks in advance. The trend benefits hostelries but harms home life and hospitality.
An English periodical asserts women drive stage success since male audiences follow their lead. It argues a play must win female interest first to be engaging, noting this pattern holds in the country as well.
An Akron dealer A B Reid touts a “latest, greatest money maker” with a free sample claim. The short notice adds a proverb about quarrels and cites Indianapolis No. 14, 1908, as context for the ad.
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