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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
7
A brief exchange shows Hicks refusing a loan after his wife visited his office. The Catholic Standard and Times quotes Hicks saying his wife kept him from lending any money.
A Houston Post excerpt notes a man attempted suicide by drowning yesterday. The speaker questions the motive and recalls the man’s wife had left him, suggesting heartache drove the rash act.
Mrs. Mary E. H. Rouse of Cambridge New York credits five years of kidney pain and back ache to Dean's Kidney Pills. After using the medicine she reports quick relief and full recovery, claiming improved health. Sold by all dealers 59 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
Advertisement for Mother Gray, a nurse at a New York Children’s Home, selling Sweet Powders for Children. Claims cure for constipation feverishness teething disorders stomach troubles and worms with 30 000 testimonials. Available from druggists 15 cents. Sample free. Address Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY.
A nineteenth century anecdote recalls a missionary who seeks refuge at a Swede’s ranch. The Swede objects to Indians staying indoors and asks how heaven can hold many Mansions for such guests. The missionary replies with a Bible verse about many rooms in the Father’s house.
A Philadelphia School Board member recalls a northern Pennsylvania school where a strict master keeps boys at desks yet allows lunch box snacking. He scolds a pupil for pie devotion during arithmetic, noting the boy listens with one ear while eating.
A surgeon recounts quitting coffee after tremors and insomnia nearly ruined his skill. He describes trying Postum, finding it mild and calming, then sharing it with a friend whose family also uses it. He asserts Postum improved circulation and reduced nervous symptoms, urging readers to brew per directions and consider it the national drink.
A roundup of curious items includes camphor’s moth repelling quirks, a New York burglar who regrets mismatched neckwear, a ten foot six inch octopus in Victoria, a Venus statue pried by a pistol shot, and Boston’s new four to eight person automobile fire patrol wagon. Also notes on German tobacco urgency, barbershop dissolutions in New Orleans, a tiny pearl boat valued at $5000, and Belgian hares overrunning Argentina with hunters tallying a thousand kills daily.
At a Lakewood dinner gathering a plan for a wood chopping contest became a tree felling competition between Herbert Manly of Philadelphia and Graham White of New York. Fifty backers escorted them to a private estate as spectators cheered while bets on bonbons changed hands until both men admitted the task proved tougher than expected.
An arrival, Margaret Durham, Tops the select musicale at Miss Simmons's school. She is shy yet chosen as usher for the pink musicale. She asks an elderly gentleman for seating, but misreads and proposes sewing him to a sheet. Five ushers mime the seating while Margaret flees in embarrassment.
A minister's wife bursts with joy over a church call and is told by an elder woman she understands his happiness because her pig won a gold medal at the cattle show. The exchange underscores a humorous misalignment of priorities.
Dialogues reveal Towne and Browne discussing Towne's wife insomnia and the severe nightly attacks that begin when he returns home late, as reported by the Philadelphia Press.
Satirical exchange from a Philadelphia Ledger piece hints at wit about sibling ties. The dialogue presents a male narrator and a quick rejoinder about lacking a brother, delivered with humorous irony.
A Brooklyn temperance leader, Bessie Farrell, president of a Young People's Christian Temperance group, lauds Peruna as a valuable nerve and blood remedy for worn out women. She cites personal experience and notes Dr. Hartman prescribes Peruna to many, with grateful letters. A closing quip questions stingy men.
A little girl asks why bouillon cups have two handles and is told in a humorously blunt way that it is because some people are left handed.
An advertisement claims deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tube mucous lining and not local treatment. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, and promotes Hall's family pills and a laxative bromquinine with a World wide cure claim and doctor endorsements.
Fragmented oddities from the Providence Journal and other clippings reflect quirky dialogue about hunting boars and domestic life. A man jokes about the wild bore hunting him while a housewife’s rocking chair signals self-reliance in daily chores.
A Japanese speaker decries the term Japs used by foreigners, arguing Nippon and Nihon are proper, while sayojin means Western men. He warns that the word foreign devil, once used in Nippon, should not return and notes foreigners in Japan would not insult Japanese with the abbreviation.
A writer argues there is no single American beauty type due to the nation's diverse racial and cultural stock. He says a true standard will emerge only after social problems are resolved, education advances, and living conditions homogenize into a unified national identity. The piece critiques illustrators and fashion as biased.
A humorous dialogue in the Catholic Standard features the typhoid germ boasting it fights best when down, while a grip microorganism asks about its own peculiarity. The exchange uses wit to reflect public health themes in a playful tone.
An advertisement touts Billion Dollar Grass and other seeds from John A Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin. It highlights a Yowa farmer selling seed worth 3800 dollars on 100 acres and 300 tons of hay, claiming up to three crops annually. Readers urged to mail 14 cents for a seed catalog and sample seeds including Macaroni Wheat and Victoria Rape.
Mrs Lizzie Vincent Thomas of Fairfield Tennessee reports severe eczema on a girl and poison oak on a boy healed in weeks using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills. The note claims near instantaneous relief and urges reliance on Cuticura products over physicians.
In a backstage exchange a stage manager asks why a star was ejected earlier. The stage carpenter explains catching a crew member striking a match near the fire-proof curtain, implying a safety breach during a performance.
From October to May colds are the most frequent headache cause. Laxative Bromo Quininid claims to remove the cause. E W Grove on box 25e.
A brief exchange features Becker humorously critiquing the president's stance while the New York Sun offers a quip about blame. The ad promotes Mrs. Austins pancake mix as a wholesome breakfast, distributed at grocers.
A man asks for preparations to remove superfluous hair at a drugstore. The druggist agrees and the man requests a pint to use on his head. The man admits he has almost no hair left and hopes to finish the baldness with one sweep, venting his fatigue over hair loss.
A reflective piece argues that daily annoyances expose the core traits of a person. It suggests patience and composure under minor stress reveal integrity more than grand gestures.
Mrs. Sallie French of Pancaunia Indiana Territory writes she suffered seven years with female troubles and nervous weakness. Doctors offered no relief. After writing to Mrs. Pinkham and taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound she is now strong and well.
An advertisement exhorts women to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for a wide range of female ailments. It invites letters to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Massachusetts for confidential, free advice based on her experience.
A concise reflection notes that religion worn out through neglect becomes hollow. It argues the driving motive, not suffering, transforms someone into a martyr, highlighting optics over genuine belief.
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