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Newspaper
Heppner Times
Location
Heppner, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1904
Page
3
A pickpocket boasts of taking what comes, while a policeman counters by saying he can take men. The scene narrates a tense exchange as the pair part ways with guarded steps, amid chatter about a cure and a haunting church chandelier made of bones.
In a comic exchange a guest complains to waiter Walter about a Swiss cheese sandwich missing cheese. The polite waiter apologizes noting the cheese sits on the holes, explaining the cheese ended up on one hole while two slices appeared missing on the other.
Readers are urged that Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive remedy for catarrh and other constitutional diseases. The advertisement asserts the medicine acts internally on blood and mucous surfaces to destroy disease foundations, build up constitution, and is endorsed by medical professionals.
The dahlia was introduced into Europe for its bulb to serve as a substitute for the Irish potato, resembling it when baked.
A sister accuses an unnamed man of wronging her brother by not replying to his letters. Miss Jill denies any intention to offend or to write him, insisting she does not mean to wrong him or to correspond. This dialogue fragment appears in the Catholic Standard and Times.
A surveying party in the Bay of Apia Samoa reports discovering 453 distinct fish specimens. Researchers catalog each specimen, noting diversity in species and regional marine life. The finding highlights Samoa’s aquatic biodiversity and the need for conservation measures.
A summary of 1908 highlights notes mass killings in Kishinev and Belgrade, labor strikes in the United States, and major floods storms and earthquakes across Kansas Nebraska Iowa Missouri and Asia. It also cites advances like the Pacific cable, wireless telegraphy, and a new Department of Commerce, while listing notable deaths and events through the year.
Chicago Tribune recounts a tale from Col. Marcus Kavanagh of the Seventh Illinois National Guard. Private Mike Casey confronts his commander with a teary plea for leave and ends revealing he is not married, under the colonel's tent.
A curb broker Tucker, seeking to sell ten gas stock shares, outwits Uncle Russell Sage by trading at 05 after Sage initially dismisses the offer. Sage later buys the shares and, impressed, hires Tucker to handle his curb business. Tucker gains a key patron and employment through a bold stock ploy.
A chaotic scene unfolds at a bus office where a man buys two seats to reserve them from two women. Another man from inside offers extra seats near the back, but the outside man insists on keeping those two vacant to block the women arriving after the lecture.
The Governor of Oregon endorses Peruna as the catarrh remedy of the age. Letters of praise pour in from every state. Dr Hartman reports hundreds daily. The ad extols Peruna cures colds, prevents catarrh, and promotes winter health for households. A testimonial from W M Lord of Oregon confirms its usefulness for family cold prevention. Readers are urged to obtain Dr Hartman’s free book Winter Catarrh and Peruna Almanac for 1904.
Layard notes in History of Nineveh that royal records were inscribed on bricks with characters so minute they were nearly illegible without a microscope, with a variety of such instruments found among the excavations.
A fragmented clipping cites a query about Middlerib's bitterness toward Turks and a young man calling on his daughter smoking Turkish cigarettes. It mentions Dr Kine’s Great Nerve Seed and a nervous freeness claim tied to a Philadelphia address.
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