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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1900
Page
3
A scene unfolds with Miss Antique correcting the traveler as he pretends familiarity and references a husband brother and children. The returned traveler struggles with memory and misreads relationships while probing about Tit-Bite.
A humorous New York Weekly exchange has a housekeeper and milkman debating spoiled milk flavored by garlic. The dialogue ponders kitchen habits, possible neighborly garlic use, and a stray French teacher as the sole visitor, ending with a curt suggestion to drop French.
A fragment from Chicago Tribune and The Smart Set features two women discussing money and romance. The pale blue shirt waist recalls a failed bonnet purchase while plans to travel to Europe with family unfold as a practical choice over leaving others behind.
A rustic poem verse describes a boy lounging on a sunny hillside half waking from dawn to noon. He envies the long-winged birds and falcons while squirrels, thrush, sheep, and cows fill the tranquil landscape as nature's season cycles. The piece ends noting that while work is good, a yearly holiday to loaf and dream remains cherished.
A long married couple in Chicago enduring a chilly patch rekindles affection after a home invasion scare. John Trumbull, once henpecked, finds a renewed role as protector when thieves raid the Smiths’ flat, lifting his wife’s nerves and tightening their bond.
In Saxony Markneukirchen and surrounding villages form a violin making hub with about 15 000 residents employed in every step of the craft. Prof Moorhead, an archaeologist, finds an eight foot skeleton fragment and preserved pottery at an Aztec ruin near Phoenix Arizona while researching for an Eastern museum.
An inventor patents horse spectacles to alter perspective for high stepping gait. Amsterdam hosts ninety two diamond cutters with about 850 to 400 workers under way. A proverb on honesty and an anecdote about near sighted women are mentioned.
A ventriloquist visited the House of Representatives causing astonishment and laughter after a whispered exchange with Speaker Henderson. The unseen performer’s echoes and taunting lines disrupted proceedings before vanishing, leaving a puzzled chamber and amused stenographers. The Chicago News piece also notes a vivid circus scene, contrasting modern politicking with show business spectacle.
A Detroit Journal report describes a front line exchange where a yellow correspondent questions the Kaffir runner about his credibility and whether he would swallow his dispatches to avoid capture. The Kaffir replies affirmatively that they are credulous and would swallow them. The correspondent then dismisses his thoughts in a violent outburst.
Experiments show fish fin like propellers yield powerful propulsion and may transform water transit. Hostetter's Stomach Hitters attributed as a surf cure for constipation indigestion dyspepsia and bile issues amid the era of medical claims.
Farmers urged to contact T M Roberts Supply House Minneapolis Minnesota for a special price on binder twine. The firm is well regarded by major rating agencies. Also notes charity subscriptions to the State Air Fund to bring farmers' children to the city for a few hours. Excursion tickets to Philadelphia sold June 1 to 18 at one fare round trip for Republican National Convention. tickets valid to June 26 1900.
United States Senator W. V. Sullivan of Mississippi writes from Oxford praising Peruna as a cure for catarrh and a tonic. He claims personal improvement and urges others to use Peruna with The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus Ohio offering a free book on catarrh.
A Philadelphia Press quip about plum pudding notes the dish often contains no plum. The exchange jokes that dictionaries define plum as a small mass or weight of lead, highlighting language quirks and misnomers in a quick lunch counter dialogue.
The Savage Bachelor jokes about why women marry soldiers noting their obedience and training. The King of Spain replaces his pony Puce with a chestnut horse as he enters his thirteenth year.
Limited text fragment notes a product named Halls Catarrh Care with an apparent price tag of 75. No clear dates, entities, or full context available to identify who or where.
Mail to Sears Roebuck Binder Twine Department in Chicago with how much twine you need and when you want it. Sears will quote a price that secures your order or forces suppliers to lower their price. Includes Sisal Standard or Manila twine and promises savings.
In a London Tit-Bits item a comic exchange shows an old lady asking a chemist for canine pills. The chemist, noting the dog’s condition, quietly prepares quinine pills while the lady defends her husband as a gentleman.
Try Grain-O the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. It suits children and adults alike and is made from pure grains with a rich seal brown color like Mocha and Java. Priced 15c or 2c per package, sold by all grocers.
In a domestic vignette a woman laments a missing household journal while a man smiles after burning a recipe. An accompanying ad promotes Allen's foot ease powder for sore feet with free samples and directions to contact Allen S. Olmsted. A light humor snippet ends with a mother feeding her child the first day of school.
An old advertisement fragment promotes Jell-O as a quick healthful dessert with orange raspberry and strawberry flavors. It also features Lane's Family Medicine promising daily bowel movement relief and liver kidney benefits, Piso's Cure cough medicine praised by a Minneapolis reader, plus a note about Breslau building a fireproof paper chimney fifty feet high.
An advertisement touts Hall’s Caterrk Cure for internal use at 75 cents. It also promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry whitening agents, writing folders, and various paper sizes with per-item prices. The copy urges readers to ask their dealer and avoid substitutes.
Antique advertisement extols Grove's Chill Tonic for malaria with iron and quinine, claiming tasteless formula and superiority over imitators. It asserts authentic status across malarial regions, states no cure no pay, and lists a price of 50 cents.
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