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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1913
Page
2
Classified snippet states single copies 2 cents each by carriers 6 cents a week by mail. Mentions reserve price of $3.00 a year and entry as second class mail matter at Greencastle Indiana post office.
Taking big chances, neighbors or medicine sent from afar may fail during sudden bowel attacks. Cholera morbus deaths occur in neighborhoods where medicine is not at hand. A bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has saved many lives, sells for a quarter by all dealers.
June 1 start date for round trip tickets to Atlantic and Pacific Coast points and other resorts. Information and full details by mail from W W Gilgis traveling passenger agent Monon Route Bedford Ind.
Greencastle residents read about a simple buckthorn bark and glycerine mixture sold by Jones Stevens druggists and Adlerika claims of rapid relief from constipation sour stomach and gas. The ad touts instant benefits and removal of old foul matter claiming it helped appendicitis.
The advertisement touts Mayrs Wonderful Stomach Remedy as effective for Stomach Liver and Intestinal Ailments Indigestion Gas pain and dizziness claiming lasting benefits after one dose It cites improved digestion blood flow and vitality and offers literature and free booklets from Geo H Mayr Chemist Greencastle distributor A Cook Drug Co and other druggists.
A preacher urges expanding the idea of the kingdom of God beyond royal imagery. The goal is a life where God’s will guides all people, not a palace or officials, with daily prayer for God’s presence in the common life and the world’s unity with divine will.
A Southern cotton house buyer who paid half the price for goods and left a note for the rest surprises the merchant with cash and a shawl. The buyer asks for a present, the merchant offers a shawl, and then accepts the note back as payment, ending with the buyer choosing the shawl.
A fragment quotes a casuial remark about the Smith girl marrying Jones. The speaker predicts she will wear the trousers and face financial tightness after marriage. The line captures social attitude and gender expectations reflected in the era.
An English traveler in Switzerland, ill and confined to his hotel room, asks for a doctor. A well dressed visitor enters and asks what ails him then steals the unwary patient’s watch and purse before leaving.
Two boys punished after school for poor behavior begin writing their names repeatedly. One boy calls out the unfairness noting the other’s name is Hush while his own is Schluttermeyer, prompting a brief humorous moment in World’s Wit.
A customer questions why cuff charges doubled after a laundry's manageress explains that extra time is wasted by staff when customers mark notes on cuffs. The exchange highlights time lost due to customer pencil notes and its impact on pricing.
At dinner Sam and his wife Mirandy argue over the chicken that supposedly came from the next door and kept uprooting her flower beds. The exchange highlights daily household tensions and a rural setting.
A dialogue contrasts glow-worm light with no heat and a wasp’s heat with sitting. It notes that light can accompany heat in operation and puzzles over this disparity. The exchange cites Bacon and Egbert as sources for the observation.
A satirical portrait of Barnaby, six foot three and wealthily pompous, who dismisses Treweck’s cosmology with a roar of rot and a shove across the club room. The encounter exposes Barnaby’s tyrannical politicking in two towns, his lavish self-image, and his contempt for anyone challenging his authority.
A sickly man seeks help from a village physician after trying numerous remedies. He consumed dandeline extract, Smith's Healing Compound, Green's Sure Cure Pills, poke berry, calamus, mullein, rye and boneset mixtures, a gypsy receipt, peddler goods, quinine, elixir of a hundred roots, and bitters. He asks if more treatment is needed.
A 14 year old girl enters a Philadelphia real estate office with a memorandum book and asks the bachelor broker to buy a chance on their go cart. He is sharply questioned by the girl who insists the broker may not win the prize but should purchase a chance.
In a physical culture lesson to Plainfield New Jersey police Bob Fitzsimmons dismisses feints and tricks favoring direct open work in boxing and wrestling. He cites a beggar as a cautionary parable about signs and deceit to illustrate straightforward action.
A Washington Star report quotes Farmer Corn tassel on why Biggins was sent to Congress. He notes Biggins insisted on wearing a high hat and Prince Albert coat on week days, causing fatigue among locals who grew tired of his appearance.
A student greets a disappointed mood with a joke about a dream of a teacher breaking his leg. The exchange turns somber as the student asserts dreams rarely come true, reflecting a moment of blunt humor and resigned sentiment.
A shopper asks about egg kinds and finds the seller listing fresh eggs stored eke and theatrical eggs, the clerk adjusting his spectacles during the unusual catalog.
A man cites a vow to his wife about drinking and asserts he is keeping the promise by limiting his alcohol intake compared with before.
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