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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
6
An old ad copy boasts that the Red Cross Ball Ewe offers double value for money and goes twice as far as any other product. It urges consumers to acknowledge their grocer and ends with a quip about sting versus getting stung.
A Times feature notes that monarchs lavish large tips on domestic staff during visits. It cites King Edward’s yearly tipping running into thousands and the Kaiser's generous practice, with envelopes prepared by secretaries to ensure full disbursement to every servant. The piece contrasts royal habits with ordinary restraint and closes with a coffee-to-Postum testimonial endorsing a caffeine-free beverage.
The 1914 German budget raises legations in Guatemala, Venezuela and Peru and creates a consulate general in Montreal while increasing subsidies for German schools abroad and funding for Berlin’s 1916 Olympic bid. It notes no embassy plan for Washington, hints at ending North German Lloyd subsidies, and lists army and navy expenditures. Also recaps Count Zeppelin’s defiant perseverance amid naval disasters, and the Mittelstand’s economic revolt across Austria and Germany against large enterprise and labor encroachment.
Gladstone reports wheat yields in 1913 above expectations with several farms yielding over 40 bushels per acre and one noted as 66 pounds per bushel. Portage Plains shows remarkable results with Nash Elgert at 61 bushels per acre and other farms ranging from 30 to 54 bushels. Reports from Marquette and Binsearth note good progress, average wheat around 20 to 25 bushels per acre, barley about 45, oats around 70, and No.1 Northern samples. Weather favorable for cutting and threshing with high samples, no significant damage. also a humorous classified mail item about a love letter mix-up at Euclid Village post office.
An old advertisement from Circleville Ohio narrates a mother treating her daughter's scalp dermatitis with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. It claims rapid relief after two applications and eventual cure, signed by Mrs. Alice Kirtin on November 4 1912. The note invites readers to obtain a sample and mail a postcard to Cuticura Dept L Boston.
In a sharp exchange a woman named Mrs. Torkins notes that those who once cheered the man now hurl eggs. The comment questions public sentiment and reflects a fall in esteem as eggs are joked about at 50 cats a dozen.
Fragmentary notice describes a powder product for feet called Aluens Foot-Ease used to shake into shoes. It mentions supposed benefits for relieving stings and irritants, with a price and an address for a package order. The readable text is garbled and names and locations are unclear.
A fragmented quip laden item hints at jokes about friendship and need. It mentions avoiding a fictional danger and takingMentholated cough drops from drug stores as real value. The piece ends with a whimsical comment on marriage luck.
The Maxwell Motor Company urges owners of Maxwell Briscoe Stoddard-Dayton Columbia Gasoline and Electrics Everitt Brush Sampson and Courier cars to overhaul and replace worn parts. It claims vast parts stock, bought from United States Motor Company assets, with 24 to 48 hour direct shipment from Newcastle.
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