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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
2
A Galena Tribune reprint presents Henry F. Cope of Chicago Tribune remarks on religious pose and social conduct. It critiques pious posturing, suggests true faith requires action, and warns against treating religion as a tool. The piece ends noting the quote about offerings versus sermon passing.
The piece muses on frugal living as wise and artistic, noting how some people endure absence for lectures yet claim home happiness, and observing that fictional heroines resemble real girls named Sophy or Mehitable. It reads as a reflective, opinionated column with light humor and social commentary.
A Medford Mercury excerpt muses on love at first sight and habit, noting readers prize their papers and early birds catch worms. It laments a hand made verse in delible ink on foot made paper, inviting the first old subscriber to prove where a snake’s head ends and tail begins.
A series of satirical snippets on money, creditors, and family. It contrasts bookkeepers with figureheads, mocks debt as a motto, and notes distant relatives as those with wealth. Humorous quips about keeping promises and a husband’s dream of bachelorhood close the collection.
Mrs Pare wife of C B Pare a Glasgow Kentucky resident describes suffering from kidney trouble with back pain variable secretions high color and burning scalding sensations. She credits Deans Kidney Pills with regulating secretions reducing inflammation and restoring comfort.
The Kaiser orders underperforming officers to leave the ball until their dancing improves. Throughout the pre court festivities, regimental casinos become officers' dancing academies with older officers teaching younger ones the court dances.
In Washington the Townsend rate bill would fix a rate by the Commission and prohibit its lowering by a railroad even in emergencies. Railroads or shippers would need to appeal again to the Commission, with no latitude allowed. Previously a maximum rate existed, but the proposed legislation makes no such concession.
The handsome young violinist Jan Kubelik has recently achieved the greatest Italian success by any instrumental performer since Paganini. Italy traditionally favors opera over instrumental music, yet has a deep violin heritage from Stradivarius to Corelli, and Kuba lik's acclaim reflects this enduring heritage.
Public health notice urges watching for early indigestion and liver trouble and using Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin to prevent progression. Claims chronic dyspepsia weakens the system and that Syrup Pepsin cures quickly and pleasantly. Sold by druggists at 50c and 1. Wu money back if not satisfied.
A duel in Paris lasted about two and a half hours with twenty three encounters. Neither combatant was touched. The seconds announced both men showed equal courage and urged reconciliation.
A dated advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward for incurable cases and cites endorsements from J Cheney and Walding Rinxan Martin. It promotes Hall's internal cure at 75 cents per bottle and urges use with Hall's Family Pills. A separate quip mocking Boston whisky availability appears at the end.
An advertisement touts Defiance Starch as superior to competitors offering 16 ounces for 10 cents and claims it resists shaking out or blowing away. The piece also notes labored health claims about strawberries causing rheumatism, promotes other products, and mentions assorted trivial items as seasonal chatter. It presents a collage of product pitches and quirky notes from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper page.
The New York fire department marine battalion under Chief Crocker fights ice floes and blazing oil tankers on the North and East rivers. Fireboats like the New Yorker tow burning vessels to safety, pump thousands of gallons per minute, and endure extreme heat as they protect waterfront property from Yonkers to the Narrows.
Firefighters aboard a burning steamer battled a blaze for days as the New Yorker raced to assist. Passengers fled to the deck and a frantic woman claimed a baby was aboard, but none existed. She later produced a frightened cat in triumph, taunting the crew.
In English prisons the treadwheel remains common in a blue gray stone building called the Wheel House. The interior includes four wheels on the left in two tiers, a gallery, and a lower right gallery with a warder. Compartments separate each wheel to block sight and sound among prisoners.
A Chicago Alkaloidal Clinic editor argues natural stoutness may be healthy and medical intervention unnecessary. He notes many women seek thinness while others desire to gain, paralleling common body image wishes across hair and weight traits.
Supt Foster of New Orleans Street Railway recalls a Salem Willows rush period when a car conductor suspected of stealing began underreporting fares. Each trip the cashier thanked him, until the third trip when the man confessed the theft, and the cashier again smiled and thanked him for bringing in the car.
The Admiralty announces the appointment of a dental surgeon for sailors and marines at Portsmouth. He will serve as a civil servant and will not wear a uniform, marking the navy’s first such dental appointment for its personnel.
Two women freed from troubles that made life wretched for years claim Dr Williams Pink Pills cured them. The ad asserts headaches stem from impure blood and that pills renew the blood, relieving headaches, anemia, neuralgia, and rheumatic pains. Miss Stella Blocker of Leander Louisiana recounts long illness ending after three boxes. Pills sold by all druggists.
This vignette from the New York Times recounts a doctor feeling a baby’s pulse while family observers sit in tense silence. A boy, fixated on the doctor’s shiny head, blurts a playful line noting the father’s head appears less empty, revealing gentle, humorous curiosity.
A man bursts into a Long Island Rail Road station on Thirty-fourth Street and pleads for a Fresh Pond ticket. The puzzled agent notes no such station exists on LI, nearest being Bushwick Junction. The pompous traveler insists he must catch a train, fearing he will be cremated, and queries round trip status.
A Brooklyn man details decades of coffee induced heart palpitations and his switch to Postum Food Coffee. After proper boiling 15 to 20 minutes the beverage proved palatable and healthful, eradicating the palpitations except when coffee was unavoidable. The ad cites Postum’s efficacy and promotes The Road to Wellville booklet.
A fragment from the Cincinnati Inquirer describes a parlor moment where a couple banters over silence. The woman laments prior interruption thwarting her bid for fame, humorously claiming she nearly set a new record for quiet before the man’s intrusion.
For thirty one years Harrison Elmer rang the town bell at noon and nine. On January 13 1890 the nine o clock ringing failed and at twelve a long strange stroke sounded as Harrison died. The Society of Psychical Research questions who or what rang the bell.
A historical excerpt echoes John Boyle O'Reilly praising unity across races. It emphasizes shared blood and common humanity beyond creed and color, denouncing arrogance and celebrating law, justice, and a collective national heart.
A Montreal Herald observation notes that many people burden themselves with an endless mountain of tasks. A tired woman once vowed to rest, but five years later she admits she never found “some day” to relax. The piece laments losing the ability to simply live.
A Chicago Inter Ocean note quotes a young hotel clerk who says the desk job offers keen advantages. He recounts soft perks like theater passes and discounts, noting a clerk can guide guests to amusements shopping dining and more.
A writer in Country Life in America notes polo players imitate horsemen but lack veterinary insight. He mocks their theories about a pony's ailment after death, saying they are players, not breeders, and show guesses five minutes after death.
The article notes night owls perform better after dinner at 8:30 and peak at 11:30, with sharper thinking if healthy. It warns that insomnia following such patterns should prompt a doctor visit.
Over three years the cantilever Thebes Bridge has claimed sixteen lives, nearly all by falls from the superstructure. A gale once swept a traveling crane off its track into the river, killing three men who were aboard. The bridge sits about seventy five feet above the water, making most falls fatal. Only one man survived an uninjured fall into the water.
Captain W. S. Graham of Wheeling writes dated June 14 1904 praising Cuticura Soap and Ointment after long suffering from facial and back sores thought to be blood poison or barber’s itch. He says doctors failed and friends’ guidance cured his skin, now clear as a baby’s.
In Pawnee Kansas a Mexican and a full blood Pawnee Indian wed in probate court. Neither spoke the others language. Night Marshal Winston served as interpreter for the Mexican groom and a court attache translated the Pawnee responses into English.
Some grocers won’t stock Defiance Starch because they already carry other brands in 12 oz packs and can’t move them. Defiance offers 16 oz for the same money and requires no cooking, suggesting buyers should choose the larger size.
Reported compromise in Scotland between Free and United Free Churches. Free Church to surrender about 25 million of the 37.5 million it acquired under the House of Lords decision. Details unclear but indicates a negotiated settlement to end the dispute.
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