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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1902
Page
6
This notice promotes Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder disorders. It claims widespread prevalence, urges treatment, and offers sample bottles and a pamphlet by mail from Dr Kilmer Co of Binghamton New York.
The Atlantic notes how ordinary characters become engaging through patient exposition of traits. It cites Thackeray, Scott, George Eliot and argues commonplace figures gain dignity via moral struggle and subtle, revealing details that transform them like living, fascinating things.
The article explains how in early England ships blended roles as merchantmen and warships. It notes Elizabeth I leased navy ships for piracy and slave trading, Henry III advanced as a naval founder by hiring ships and securing returns, and claims the practice ended after the Spanish Armada when warships and traders separated.
The article explains glaciers form when precipitation and cold unite. It argues low temperature alone cannot create ice without moisture and that glaciers need ongoing snow accumulation, avalanches, and re freezing, with pressure building as ice mass grows and begins to flow down valleys.
A young woman exiting a theater ride on a tram was targeted by a deft pickpocket. She felt a pinprick and released her grip on her purse, but another thief quickly seized the bag and vanished before she could react.
Comedians Toole and Brough, costumed in tattered rags from Dearer Than Life, visit the home of artist Fradelle and Marshall. The maid and the master’s staff react with shock as they pretend to be cousins from the workhouse in a humorous London Tit-Bits moment.
A New York Tribune recounts how Rowland Hill saved a poor girl from paying ninepence postage in Victoria’s reign. His empathy sparked the penny postage idea that later transformed mail in Britain.
A young speaker at a public meeting calls a public official a thief. A police officer quietly asks for a retract, and the orator replies with a concession to withdraw the word while preserving the idea. The crowd applauds the speaker’s escape.
The remark attributes Tennyson to Sir Henry Taylor, noting he claimed Shakespeare and Austen left no letters to be opened, asserting both writers lived unknown behind their writings. The quote compares literary secrecy to being not “ripped open like pigs.”
A Richmond Dispatch item notes Time For Business in Pennsylvania where a father asks his son’s persistent traveling suitor to keep visits businesslike and to call again at ten o clock sharp. The dialogue frames a domestic scene urging practical aims and punctuality.
A Chicago Record Herald fragment recalls a poet announcing future discovery while his wife, exhausted by poverty and unable to keep a girl, quips that posterity would likely regret the time spent pursuing fame.
A Bacon quotation reflects on how children add to daily cares and responsibilities while softening memory of death, illustrating the bittersweet nature of parenthood and existence.
A Paris manufacture creates a transparent paper resembling glass using kelp and other seaweeds. The item promises strong, clear sheets for possible commercial use.
A Venetian market scene reveals a self proclaimed expert buyer who buys a carnelian looking jewel for 40 cents only to learn it is glass. The tale contrasts knowledge with price and shows how genuine value may lie in overlooked finds.
Middle Branch residents attend church. J M Reddington and wife visit relatives south of Versailles. Lewis Osting visits parents near Greensburg. Residents attend Flatrock Association at Sand Creek. Tremain couple visit Greensburg. Loren Doles returns from Indianapolis and Terre Haute. Festival yields about 24 dollars after expenses. Grover Redington returns from Indianapolis to teach at Washington school house. Fred Stewart of Kingston and Mildred Hart wed at Greensburg home of John Hart. Congratulations extend.
Westport items report many visitors and relocations including Miss Elma Thomas from Harrison Ohio and Miss Lucille Bill from Meridian Mississippi visiting friends. Local residents Dr Isom Scripture of Frankfort and Walter Sharp of Terre Haute are mentioned among relatives. George McFall buys Main street property to build a new business house. C C Robbins and Bird Sefton haul two thousand bushels of corn purchased near Forest Hill.
Williamstown reports multiple fever cases including Mary Endicott with malarial fever and Alice Fleetwood with typhoid fever while Nora Cooksey and Mrs. Emma Cooksey suffer illnesses. Local despatches note village residents traveling, property sales, a burial, church reunion, and a county budget outline for 1902 with township and county expenses and public works.
A London Answers item notes the Ogmore valley coal workers travel daily by a workmen's train from Maesteg to Abergwynfi and back. Pipes and matches are banned in the pits with heavy penalties, yet every smoker leaves his pipe on the seat and finds it untouched on return, as doors stay unlocked but no pipe is ever stolen.
Mrs O E Datton of Danville Illinois recalls both her children suffering from whooping cough. She credits Foley's Honey and Tar with curing the cough and saving a doctor's bill.
Horace reports Mrs. Lib Robbins convalescent and Ed Samuels on sick list. Mrs. Lou Davis shopped in Greensburg. W.8. Robbins did business in Indianapolis. Bartlow Samuels poorly and unable to walk alone. John Samuels hauled logs for Samuels & Sons mill Wednesday. Webster Holmes and crew carpentering for A. C. Gilchrist. Milton Stapp of Tarkey visited daughter Mrs. J. G. Davis Tuesday. A. G. Taylor weighed cattle for Will Davis Thursday. Charley Knorr baled hay for William Davis and son. John Owen from southwest of Lette circulated locally Wednesday. Mr. Allen and son near finishing plastering the school house. Robison & Davis sent two loads of hogs to market in Queen City Tuesday. Dr. Welsh aided Mrs. Sallie Land Saturday night and she is somewhat better. I N Wynkoop and daughter with Vannie Taylor were excursionists to Benton Harbor Thursday of last week. George Keith of Westport put in a tubular well at the new site.
A New York Weekly snippet shows Mrs De Jarr asking about an asylum near by, Mr De Jarr wondering about recommendations, and a line about obtaining old love letters. The dialogue mixes curiosity and surprise with a punchy, witty tone.
Wederly asks about Enpeck as a relative and Singleton explains he is a step friend by marriage. Singleton reveals Enpeck eloped with the girl he was engaged to, causing the predicament.
Readers are urged to subscribe to The Standard as promotional offers open. The campaign emphasizes access to local reporting, opinion pages, and community coverage for current and new subscribers.
A letter from A. H. Davis and Mr. Sterling of Indiana recounts a two year kidney ailment cured by Foley's Kidney Cure after using two one dollar bottles. The claim emphasizes a permanent recovery attributed to the medicine.
Store catalog style listing of sewing items with unit prices including Clark O N T thread spools, brass pins, hair pins, baby ribbon in colors, good thread, best buttermilk soap, and Mennen's talcum powder priced at 7 cents or 12 cents per unit as read.
Mill end prices list heavy brown muslin yard wide at 7 4 cents unbleached muslin soft finish mill end price .43 cents ro and 12 cents ginghams and percales mill end price .63 cents best lonsdale muslin yard .63 cents best calicos choice of gs and 6 cents calico yard .3 cents
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