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Newspaper
Hobart News
Location
Hobart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1910
Page
7
A brief dialogue shows Kitty refusing to contribute when the usher lacks change for her nickel. She asks if giving all would mean going gumless for a week, while her mother frames the act as a test of generosity.
An advertisement from Chicago claims a simple horme-treatment for drunkenness can cure health and fortune issues. It promises secrecy and offers a mail address at Dearborn Street, with a fee of $4 and dates for service.
A New York factory owner jokes about a fast rising employee who may become a finance king after selling homing pigeons in Brooklyn and receiving them back again in a cycle. The piece also notes sharp lines about romance and social behavior in a small town.
A St Louis street scene shows a crowd mistaking a fox terrier for mad due to foam at the mouth. A calm woman lifts the dog as onlookers urge shooting. The officer reiterates the dog is mad, but the foam is dismissed as cream puff residue from a snack.
Potter Drug and Chemical Corp of Reston Massachusetts promotes Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as emollients for skin scalp hair and complexion. They offer free mail response with a 232 page Culticura Book on skin and hair.
In a Native American tale Standing Elk asks Major James McLaughlin for a coffin for his dying wife who believes ghosts call her. She paints for death to summon help, relatives claim her property, and she ends up carrying the coffin home.Years later the coffin serves as a cupboard in her house.
A commercial traveler recalls a traveler who feigned illness on a train to obtain free hot water. He uses a boiling-water bag to warm fried steak, then chops and eats it with sugar tongs to avoid a fork on a curve. He finishes by pouring hot coffee from the bag, keeping the grounds inside.
The author notes a common New England practice where deacons walk the aisles after services and issue metal checks to individuals deemed fit to commune. At the Sabbath of communion they ensure each communicant holds a check before receiving bread and wine, then collect it afterward.
Count Zeppelin’s airship Deutschland completed the first scheduled trip from Friedrichshafen to Duesseldorf carrying twenty passengers. The 300 mile voyage took nine hours at an average 33 mph with peak speeds near 43.5 mph. tickets priced 25 to 50 dollars.
After nearly thirty years of effort the Senate approved the House postal bank bill by 44 to 25 without amendments. The act allows the Postmaster General to designate money order offices for savings deposits and to restrict initial depositories to about 7,000 presidential grade offices. Individuals 10 and older may open accounts, married women may hold accounts without husbands, with caps of $500 per account and $100 monthly deposits. Interest capped at 2 percent, withdrawals under rules, funds to be placed in nearby banks at not less than 2 1/4 percent.
HE V M Long of Harvard says he has lived on one dollar weekly for four years while being a top student and a varsity football player. Separately, railroad wage talks proceed with arbitration decisions and a six percent raise for Baltimore and Ohio workers. President Cyrus Northrop lauds home economics graduates at Minnesota State Agricultural College.
The Senate approves the conference report on the railroad bill by a 50 to 11 vote. House adjourns after adopting a rule allowing recall of bills from committees. The deficiency and public works measures move forward, with Arizona and New Mexico statehood bills awaiting Presidential approval. The Senate debates postal savings bank amendments and Lorimer investigation. multiple bills, including Moody retirement and arid land funding, pass.
Reuben S. Crohn, once public administrator of Kansas City, fatally shot himself amid exposure of alleged $50 000 embezzlement from Adolph Huntemann's estate. Cincinnati streetcar workers gain 1 to 2 cent hourly raises affecting over 2 000 men. English employers paid 10 million in 1908 accident insurance. Nicaragua's Madriz resumes attack on Estrada at Bluefields with Honduran aid. mediators urge June 14 date for Peru and Ecuador to assemble troops and discuss frontiers.
Bloomdale Ohio resident Mrs E M Frederick reports relief from chronic backache headaches and nervousness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad cites backache as a sign of female weakness and urges readers to seek root-cause relief and confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
Miriam's mother warns her daughter about Percy Piaxham a well connected young man while Miriam insists she will not let him misread her acceptance of a gift. The exchange hints at social pressure and potential romance within a Chicago Tribune reprint.
An old advertisement touts Dr Martel’s Female Pills as a seventeen year standard remedy for women’s ailments. It claims rapid, permanent results and urges purchase at drug stores. The piece pivots to humorous verse praising rustic living and home comforts, contrasting chores with leisure.
Alvin Adams helped establish the express business in New York with two horses a fast one and an old nag. Urgent deliveries went by the fast horse while slower items were left for the old hoss. Today every express office keeps an old hoss room for undelivered and unclaimed packages.
A Salisbury Missouri woman explains how Grape-Nuts relieved severe cramps nausea and vomiting after other remedies failed. She reports full recovery and claims lasting health improvement enabling normal meals and a thriving habit of recommending the product to patients and doctors.
Harper's Weekly describes a vivid street scene with a fashionable woman wearing a biscuit-colored hat with olive green plumes and a flat mushroom crown. She sports chestnut hair, a shrimp-pink gown, a chain of oyster pearls, Persian lamb coat, frogs, and a beaming confidence as scallops and jam figuratively circle her feet.
Mrs Kawner reveals she learned from yesterday that Mrs Blackaway’s husband was a professional cook. He prepared dinner alone while his wife was ill, arranging dishes from a delicatessen properly rather than in original packages.
Sparker hints at a public reveal this afternoon in front of a business. He promises a striking feature by pointing to the girl seated in the front, inviting onlookers to observe. The exchange underscores local interest in the vehicle and its eye catching presentation.
A teacher and pupil discuss danger signals with Tommy noting an old clock’s warning before it strikes. The exchange contrasts a rattlesnake’s warning with the clock’s warning, underscoring caution and anticipation.
A brochure from the Grand Trunk Railway extols the Lake of Bays area in the Highlands of Ontario as a charming resort. It highlights the new hotel The Wawa at Norway Point and offers free copies on request to W. S. Cookson in Chicago.
A poem excerpt from the Motor Record describes a barebones couple eloping in a horseless wagon along dustless roads. The man and woman drift toward union with no funds or traditional comforts as a tasteless cod meal and stringless beans frame their frugal voyage. The scene emphasizes techless sophistication and parental worry via wireless telegraph.
An Iowa feature highlights a local woman recovering health, with general health tips and ads for Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and Perry Datis Painkiller. The column mixes light humor about politics and a cigarette brand, ending with a brief joke about a daughter’s vocal training.
An old advertisement urges readers to try Marine Eye Salve aseptic tubes trial size for itching eyelids and falling eyelashes. It directs readers to ask a druggist or write Marine Eye Remedy Co. in Chicago for more information.
A humorous exchange notes Balaam’s ass spoke in its own language and Balaam understood. The reply frames it as the animal’s speech being self evident, with a wry remark on Balaam’s reception.
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