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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
7
A Sewickley couple enjoys a brief honeymoon while elderly friends tease the bridegroom about cooking and beefsteak. The lighthearted exchange hints at domestic life after marriage. Also a waterfront quip recalls foggy seafaring tales from seaport taverns and Newfoundland coast lore.
An elder baptizes a man at a revival meeting and a sharp eyed spectator jokes that deep water over night is needed to save him. A schoolteacher notes elders read the papers and recalls a arithmetic riddle about a rich man’s will dividing among wife son daughter brother and foreign missions.
A quirky exchange where Becker explains baseball to his daughter Cordelia. The humor hints at misinterpretations of terms like diamonds and the idea that a man’s color does not define his competence.
A European murder mystery unfolds from Brussels to London involving Louisa Roman found dead in a taxi and Luke de Mountford as a prime suspect. The plot centers on family indictments, forged claims, and the elusive truth as investigators trace a web of motive and identity across cities.
The Puritans burned monasteries collections and Cromwell burned the Oxford Library once famed in Europe. Extremists in revolution and religion have destroyed books. The Spanish Inquisition and the French Revolution shared this penchant.
Fragmentary dialogue reveals a family bargaining scene where a child named Jack agrees to behave in exchange for nickels dimes and silence about an adult presence referred to as Mr Softly tonight. The tone suggests a casual, perhaps coercive rhetoric within a domestic setting.
Two men walk in California when rain begins. One laughs at meter rates. the other laments paying 310 a day for college. The quip ends with a pun about meat and water costs.
A fragmentary collage of nonsensical lines and invented quotes alongside ad copy for Hol douches of Paxtine Antiseptic and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Mentions of self pity and dubious advice punctuate the jumbled text with crude humor and product references.
A mother from Rochester New York describes her 13 year old daughter's monthly dizziness and cramps relieved after two bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A sixteen year old from Stoutsville Ohio reports headaches backache and menstrual relief after using the same remedy. The Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company in Lynn Massachusetts notes hundreds of grateful letters from mothers praising the product.
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