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Newspaper
Heppner Times
Location
Heppner, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1904
Page
3
The Germanistorian Professor Theodor Monimeon praised mastery of German English French and Italian as essential for students. He argued that without these four languages one cannot grasp modern thought and urged diligent study to learn them all.
Alpine California reports the local postmaster Mr T M Albee, a man of few words, endorsing Dodd's Kidney Pills after using four boxes with excellent results. The letter claims miraculous cures in California for rheumatism urinary trouble backache and kidney complaints and predicts widespread home use.
Miss De Btyle asks Mr Poorchap to declare deep feeling for two or three weeks to gauge Mr Richfello's reaction. He offers his heart and agrees to reveal intense affection, planning public display to test the response.
Important to threshermen the A H Averill Machinery Co of Portland Ore announces a 26 page thresherman’s account and note book to be mailed free of charge by addressing the company. Prison In a Hurry reports a notable jury trial in St Louis Otia Perceley charged with stealing $12 from Rufus Phillips tried in 21 minutes and sentenced to two years with swift proceedings.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the constitutional remedy for catarrh with a money back promise. Separately a New York Tribune anecdote recalls a nursery scene as a boy asks if his shirt is done when burned.
The rise of massive business architecture in New York belittles Gothic spires such as Trinity and Grace. Dr Clarkhurst’s Madison Avenue church replaces its spire with a dome styled like a bank, illustrating how American business architecture reshapes traditional church design amid crowded skylines. The site features a heavy 11 ton broken piece and local civic notes, including Ivan Alexeich Ivánovekala.
In Moscow at the Kremlin the Czar Kolokol bell stood on a granite pedestal near Ivan the Great’s belfry. Cast in the sixteenth century, an early note confirms a great bell cast during Boris Godunov’s reign. It broke in a fire in 1706. fragments lay until the reign of the ruler who followed.
Empress Anno ordered the bell recast in 1783 by Ivan Matorine. A 1787 fire caused the bell to fall fifteen feet and crack a side. Some say jeweld infusions during metal liquid caused imperfection. In 1839 M de Montferrand raised the bell for Nicholas I. It now weighs 440000 pounds, stands 26 feet 4 inches tall, and measures 67 feet 11 inches in circumference.
Kansas City Journal notes demographic split in the Cherokee Nation showing about 8,500 full bloods, 3,200 mixed whites, 22,800 mixed bloods, and 4,000 freedmen. The piece describes where each group tends to live, schooling patterns, and rising racial fellowship in combined schools.
A moral exhortation urges young men to work hard at any task fromDigging ditches to editing a paper, claiming hard work sustains health and happiness. It includes a humorous tale about a dictionary mishap with N and M. The piece also notes a London smoke washing apparatus using a water stream to remove sulphurous particles and an auto operation with regular water changes.
A father and son walk home from church. The boy Bobby jokes about money, calling the sermon “One!” after a prankster’s hat trick, while the father learns how little he was paid, only 10 cents, for the visit.
A Philadelphia Ledger quips about rival minds debating long plans. The exchange contrasts Lis’s constant talk of projects with Tio’s steady construction, mocking the endless pursuit of grand schemes.
A Useful Art Fair painter asks permission to sketch in a farmer's field. The farmer protests with a humorous line about missiles, joking that his scarecrow is less effective than a simple barrier to keep birds from the peas.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a speaker addressing wages for a cook and threatens potential resignation. The text then shifts to a statistic noting 1903 cotton exports reported as 378,000,000, exceeding a million dollars a day in value.
Letters from Cairo and Viborg express demand for Dodd's Kidney Pills and ask about Egyptian and Danish branch availability. A note on Irish comedian John Kernell recalls a Galway anecdote from the New York Tribune, illustrating the era's humor.
U S Senator M C Butler of South Carolina endorses Peruna for dyspepsia and stomach trouble in a Washington letter. The ad touts Peruna as a catarrh remedy that cures catarrh wherever located and notes it aids natural digestion without artificial methods or narcotics.
Featuring a quote about marriage and divorce from Brooklyn Life and a Piso's Cure for Consumption cough remedy advertisement. Mentions bronchial traumas and a 25 cent price at druggists.保
A quarrel over cake ends with a husband revealing he dislikes homemade cake. His wife admits she bought it at a bake shop, prompting a flippant exchange about taste and honesty in a domestic moment.
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