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Newspaper
Golden Era
Location
Golden, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 04, 1900
Page
3
A veteran reporter recalls a columnist who left a top editorial post to write speeches and letters. He narrates a banquet fiasco where a man with no gift of gab relied on a typed manuscript, a menu card, and sheer nerve to deliver a barely intelligible toast under pressure in New Orleans.
Mr. James Upper of Allenburg, a longtime village hotelier, suffered kidney troubles for years. After trying many medicines without success, he reports that Dr Williams Pink Pills restored his health, enabling him to resume farming and enjoy life again.
Fragmented OCR text shows a garbled quote about a famous criminal and bigamy. The readable parts mention marriage, a second spouse, and a victim's question, with unclear names or dates. No coherent event or outcome is established.
A passage from Life of Archbishop Benson describes a Lambeth dinner with a foreign ambassador. The exchange reveals diplomacy and religious sentiment as the ambassador praises country churchgoing while Benson hints at shared secular views beneath polite masks.
A Chicago Times-Herald commentary argues that battle brings the animal self to the fore, making courage and brutality inseparable. It claims open danger and communal peril trigger primal instincts, transforming face and demeanor as the animal instincts fully possess the human body.
A playful poem laments naming a sweetheart Samantha Ann in verse. The speaker teases famed poets Poe and Burns while debating the charm and limits of rhyming a lover’s name. Roy Farrell Greene references Detroit Free Press.
An Alaska prospector explains a fraud method where a liar pays a 10 percent royalty on a profitable claim to lure investors. A Yukon-style conman buys unworked claims after seeing a royalty receipt worth $6,000, then leverages the paper to purchase the claim for $150,000.
A Memphis gambler posed as a naive planter to trap sharpers running a street betting scheme near Canal Street. The planter wins big at a high stakes turn card, revealing the game and breaking the dupe’s attempt to rob robbers. The incident exposes the deceitful practice and ends the planter’s scheme.
The Bangor Commercial describes smelt fishing through ice in crowded tents. Fishermen use six-foot tents with holes in the ice and lines eight inches apart, kept moving to lure smelts. Big catches come from expert fishers, while green hands risk starving that winter.
A collage of editorials and quips comments Chicago’s growing need for conventions and reform. Observers joke about women carrying arms and sun worship while noting Sunday closures by druggists and ongoing building work, highlighting evolving city life and culture.
A garbled advertisement fragment promotes Holloway's Corn Cure for corns, Bickels Anti-Consumptive Syrup for coughs, and Parmelee's Vegetable Pills for despondency from liver issues. It includes quips about Ladysmith, a witness, and disjointed product claims amid comic dialogue.
The Vera Cruz and Pacific railway seeks Italian laborers for construction. The Chicago Burlington and Quincy electric headlights use a dynamo ahead of the smokestack. White Pass and Yukon notes December snowfall with Glacier 2044 inches and White Pass 55 inches. Rock Island adopts a "school on wheels" delivering on road technical instruction for engineers firemen conductors and brakemen.
A series of testimonials claim Minard's Liniment cured grip loss of voice sciatica rheumatism and other ailments for residents in Sydney Yarmouth Nid Lewis Butler and Charles Plummer. The notes attribute cures to Minard's Liniment and list several names and places.
A historic tour across the continent led by the Duke of Norfolk shows his kindness to strangers. An unfamiliar woman at Rome asked him to help carry her bag and hail a porter. He complied and received sixpence, recalling it as his first ever earned coin.
Prebendary Rogers recalled Lord Rosebery urging the Duke of Wellington to open Apsley House on Sundays so the public could view the pictures. The duke and Rogers discussed reputations as they agreed on admission rules including wiping feet and not sitting on sofas.
The treasury warns that fraudsters cannot defraud the government by plecing or clipping small slices of several bank notes to make a full note. Some cases have led to penitentiary sentences, yet the government does not redeem such bills and loss falls on submitters. A $500 note made from ten allied notes is on display to show how cleverly it fools banks and the public.
A curious exchange notes that the owner sold his automobile to avoid tramps who gathered at the house. The tramps admired the unusable machine, implying it drew their attention and suspicion.
A California university president predicts this year will witness the downfall of the British empire. He comments that this view is safer than urging people not to invite the trustee to dinner, noting the cautious tone of commentary in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In a brief exchange quoted from the Detroit Free Press Bilza questions Eliza about trusting a man who once hired a carriage to take them to a party across the street. The dialogue hints at past social dynamics and financial concerns as they choose to walk.
A Philadelphia North American quip notes Minard's Liniment cures diphtheria as usual. Cartoonish exchange asks about suffering from a fire and attributes the most damage to water splashed on neighboring sufferers.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt depicts a scene with a boy asking an aging country shoeman for a child’s size, sparking a wary reply about whether he desires one. The dialogue hints at deceptive street barter and moral tension in a bustling city vignette.
A Chicago News item quips about a taxpayer fond of quotations asking why distemper cures are revised. The reply from the second party notes the speaker is a city employee.
Readers debate the Metropolitan Opera House model noting stockholders alone could not sustain the opera. Managers rely on the parquet and galleries as core support, arguing opera serves as a public institution rather than a social club.
A fragmented local note describes an unusual morning event with a rolled paper striking the door. Names and details are garbled, but the record mentions a front door impact and references to a Plain text source.
The piece discusses Mozart's Don Juan as sung in church context, noting an interruption and defense of a claim about the tune Smyrna and its devotional value. It touches on literary comparisons of the beast and man, and a Detroit Journal remark on preference for even numbers in Siamese superstition linked to household details.
A philosopher quotes that expansion depends on circumstances and a man resists his in laws yet may yield when profitable. The Chicago Tribune notes a writer polishes manuscript to a fourth public edition while the Philadelphia North American comments on human nature and gain.
The article traces early dentistry from ancient Egypt to Rome, noting discovery of jawbones with false teeth and gold fillings. It mentions Greek and Roman practices and cites the Twelve Tables, permitting burial or burning of gold teeth or bindings with the deceased despite general funeral austerity.
A literary observer returning from Schuylkill county’s coal region reports abundant local color and recalls an ungrammatical remark heard near a mining village. He describes a child’s retort to her mother’s call, reflecting the dialect of the area.
In Leek a conversation unfolds with Becond Nursegiri asking if the new Becond Nursegirl likes it and noting it is in front of a police station. The Indiana Weekly captures the odd exchange.
A brief exchange notes Alphonso says preparation time was short and men were restricted to very few seconds. The fragmentary quote suggests limited preparation in a competitive or timed context.
The fragmentary text mentions Yonver Yonkers Stites and references ancestral transmission of traits. The readable portions imply a discussion about heredity or origin but lack clear events or specifics.
In Montreal, Ella asks what to wear to the Upperten ball while FAGIONY and Hattie discuss inviting and complexion. Ella suggests a thick veil as a safeguard against uncertain fashion and social scrutiny.
A vintage advertisement touts Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator as a guaranteed cure to remove worms in children, urging parents to counteract illnesses and promote strong growth. The snippet appears amid unrelated phrasing and quotes from periodicals.
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