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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1915
Page
3
A mother and washerwoman nicknamed her son Grasshopper due to his quirks, claiming he frets about waking to eat and stopping eating to sleep. The scene blends comic byplay from Lowville Times and Little Lester row snippets, ending with a note that a musical education doesn’t always harmonize a discordant soul and a jab at prizefighters.
Vintage ad fragment touts Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product for grocers and buyers. It extols white clothes and the appeal of a content, unobtrusive helper amid busy life.
A collage of quips and snippets shows a vain proprietor, a rare smile from a writer asked to pen an obituary, and a four year old bargaining with his mother about angels. In a nursery exchange Harold requests company while noting no angels arrive.
Sir Archibald Hunter, praised by Lord Kitchener, built a forty year career of valor. Known as Fighting Archie, he led divisions from the Nile to Khartoum and earned nineteen decorations. A South African war figure, he declined a public reception, preferring the battlefield.
The French writer Jules Bois discussed in America the tragic romance of his youth and its influence on his belief in women's emancipation. He argues that wars reveal the value of human life, and foresees a new Eve arising to claim political rights alongside men.
The future Harvard Slavic scholar and Norbert Wiener father began as a shoe string seller in Kansas City. Penniless and friendless, he worked as a dry goods janitor then a pedler with 25 cents capital, quickly multiplying his funds and later turning to study at the library. He later taught at Central High School, then Missouri University, and finally Harvard.
A wartime reflection notes fox-hunting is the shires HQ with 150 masters of hounds 3000 hunt members 15000 hunt staff plus army officers, suggesting the sport resembles war and has mobilized broad support despite humanitarian condemnation.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura for hair loss and dandruff with a free sample offer from Boston, including ointment and soap. It also features generic ads for Allen’s Foot-Ease, Dow’s substitute, and a Red Cross Ball Blue claim, plus short humor lines about prices and cleanliness.
Miss Rosalie Jones, a national figure in the suffrage movement, has inherited over a million dollars from father Oliver Livingston Jones. She has moved to New York to work as an automobile saleswoman while maintaining her belief in women's right to vote.
Fer Saxe remarks in a light exchange about affording possessions and his wife humorously agrees that he often buys things beyond his means, framing the joke as a playful contrast between desire and budgeting.
Mrs Maben of Murfreesboro Tennessee reports relief from female weakness displacement and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. The ad notes the remedy's roots and herbs and invites women to seek confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
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