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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1903
Page
6
A reflective, slightly humorous musing contrasts male assumptions about women with the ease of teaching a monkey to like intoxicants. It suggests contrasting ideas on peace of mind and domestic disaster arising from misinterpretation, weaving aphoristic lessons about gender, self-deception, and restraint.
Mrs W K Haviland of Armonk New York credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving her child from a near fatal attack of whooping cough and bronchitis. The same medicine helped Gurnice, with advanced consumption, to full health. Desperate throat and lung diseases yield to this remedy, claimed infallible for coughs and colds. 50c and 1.00 bottles guaranteed by Edgar Matthews & Co, druggists, with trial bottles free.
An old advertisement extols Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a universal digestant that enables the stomach to digest all foods and cure indigestion and stomach troubles. It markets the product as a never failing remedy and notes Graham Drug Co as the seller.
A concise aphorism notes that resilience wins through with steady effort. It emphasizes determination and grit over misfortune, suggesting persistence can overcome hardship.
A raw sports verse describes brutal football culture with players suffering injuries as freshmen, sophomores, and seniors collide for the ball. The scene is grim with grime, mud, and repeated tackles and throws.
The Chicago Record Herald recounts a grim scene at a high school game where a boy is carried home and laid to rest after a crowd collapses stands and a large gate incident leads to injuries. The piece highlights a mother’s pride and the macabre detail of removing and preserving a severed ear and eye in alcohol as a grim souvenir.
A middle aged couple plan a Washington trip and buy new clothes for the journey. Their grownup children tease them until they settle in. The children reveal the joke by filling both suitcases with rice, scattering grains as they unpack. A fat German woman comments humorously about the mishap.
Dialogue features Cholly joking that wine goes to his head and Betty responding with a playful quip about wine going where it won’t be crowded. A brief humorous exchange reflects light social banter.
A theatrical patron visits a German barber whose solemn mood breaks upon news of fatherhood. The barber’s smile proves fleeting as he laments time’s quick passage. He quips that a year hence the child will be one year old, as reported by the New York Press.
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt a young wife Amelia discovers the shelves are primitive and mislabels the library as a pantry while her husband Herbert corrects her. The playful exchange reveals domestic dynamics and humor over a house he has built.
An old notice proclaims Hunt's Lightning Oil as a universal cure with humorous aside that it heals all but broken hearts and soft brains, priced at 25 and 56 cents.
A fragmented reflection contrasts gossip with consumer behavior, noting happiness in restraint and the value of desiring fewer things. It argues many men are religious and that a youth who acts without knowledge of the best may seek fundamental Christian principles.
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