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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1902
Page
7
The Greensburg Standard asks subscribers to inspect the date opposite their name to verify payment status. Readers can identify how long their paper is paid and report any errors as a courtesy to the office.
June 22 is set as children's day with services at Mapleton. Multiple local notices follow about excursions, rail rates, and events from Greensburg to Cincinnati and Indianapolis with dates in June 1902. Reader notices include endorsements of Chamberlain's Pain Balm by George Schaub and various travel specials by N. A. Crawford.
An old advertisement promotes Dr. King’s New Life Pills in Grover and Bonner’s drug store. It touts benefits like lively liver, active bowels, good digestion, and fine appetite for 25 cents.
A brief notice promotes purchasing stationery now, urging customers to take advantage of current offers and timely ordering to ensure supplies are available.
The notice states that any person who regularly takes a newspaper from the post office is responsible for payment. If a paper is discontinued the subscriber must pay arrears or the publisher may continue sending it and collect full charges. Courts have ruled that not taking a newspaper from the post office and leaving it uncalled for is prima facie evidence of fraud.
The paper prints obituary notices free if not exceeding twenty lines and charges for longer notices at regular rates. Cards of thanks, resolutions from societies and church notices with door admissions are charged as advertising. G A R, W R C, 8 of W, and Ladies Aid notices follow church notice rules.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt describes Hopi courtship where women woo men, grind corn to prove devotion, and lead to long ceremonies. After marriage the wife owns the house and fields, and can divorce by tossing the husband’s saddle out the door, ending the union.
A humorous exchange in a Baltimore American item shows a fiancé objecting to marriage after a fiancée boasts skills in driving nails, cutting paper, balancing ledgers, and judging pictures. He fears the prospect proves female superiority in practical tasks and calls off the match.
Advice to buy Chamberlain's Remedy now to prevent summer bowel troubles. Praises effectiveness for children and adults and urges immediate purchase in Batter ton.
On Roberts' ship a crippled man received £800 from common stock with proportional sums for lesser hurts. Lowther awarded £150 for loss of a limb, while other captains set a tariff of wounds covering ears fingers and toes.
A 19th century advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an untreatable catarrh case. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy, lists F. J. Cheney & Co. as proprietors, and includes endorsements from Toledo wholesalers West & Truax Walding Kinnan & Marvin. Price 75 cents per bottle.
A hospital patient in Michigan quips to his doctor that he would enjoy the daily egg and sherry diet if the egg were as new as the sherry and the sherry as old as the egg, highlighting his humor during confinement.
A renowned athlete praises using a specially made flesh brush for an hour each morning. He says it replaces baths, colors the skin like a boiled lobster, opens pores, removes dead cuticle, and keeps the body supple, claiming it is the finest exercise.
A science cook explains cheese should be cooked to be digestible. Grated cheese on crackers and baked is an excellent method. The Welsh rarbit rabbit dish offers a digestible cheese option. Melt cheese in butter without layering. crumble or grate for raw use and dissolve with milk or broth when cooking.
To synchronize hatching, fanciers remove early eggs and replace them with artificial ones then return all eggs once laying ends. The male guards incubation, ensuring the female lays properly and chastises dalliance with pecks when she leaves the nest.
A classroom exchange recalls a famous figure with a speech impediment. The teacher asks for a great man with an impediment and a pupil cites George Washington unable to tell a lie.
In a Chicago News item a clerk at the Burning Hotel presents the bill for extra fire and water services to escaping guests. Guests are asked to step into a new office across the street to pay the charges.
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