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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1909
Page
6
The Chicago Chronicle explains that "grass" widow is not slang but an archaic and correct expression meaning widow by courtesy. A professor defends the term as proper, noting it derives from French grace widow and carries respectful usage.
Mrs L Fridley of Delphos Ohio credits Dean’s Kidney Pills with curing her kidney trouble after years of illness. She says she recovered after prolonged use and now enjoys excellent health. The ad notes price and distributor Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. A Tunbridge Wells shopkeeper favors reform spelling with a bold placard reading fog A Whew Trysieu for Sal.
Fashion notes show fall styles with longer skirts and details like single- breavied frocks and self covered buttons. Separate puff of text promotes Edison storage battery and Munyon remedies with claims of endless life, cure for colds, and free guides from Munyon Remedy Co Philadelphia.
Rupert Carroll travels to London to meet his cousin Lord Netherville but arrives late. A valet warns of Netherville’s delay and sends Carroll ahead to reassure the ladies. meanwhile three men observe him from the platform before Carroll departs toward Starvington as rain ends and sunset glows red.
Carroll slips past three crouching figures and is struck down by unseen attackers in a moonlit hedge. A body lies in the muddy ditch as the assailants vanish into the night, leaving Carroll presumed dead or unconscious along the path to his sister’s house.
Pittsburg neighbors laughed at Peter Liebauch a reclusive hermit selling shoestrings and herbs living in a cliffside shack. Police removing him revealed gold and silver coins valued at about $75,000 stored in walls and trunks. Express wagons carried the treasure to a vault.
The English review notes Arn Belloc Lowndes’s Studies In Wives as reflective of current trends in modern novels. Laucan Malet’s The Grove is defended as not morbid, while Susan Glaspell’s The Glory of the Conquered draws praise for engaging storytelling. Ros a N. Carter’s death is reported. her last novel published posthumously.
A Travel Magazine writer recalls a Slav melody called Matushka Volga or Mother Volga. The tune, taught from childhood, evokes sorrow as convicts ride on prison barges toward exile. The piece notes harsh fates, with authorities moving exiles by the Trans Siberian rail toward Asia, sparing some partings from the river.
A quirky exchange from the Yonkera Statesman depicts a husband and wife with sarcasm about a cooking mishap. The wife is described as overly careful, even fanning a hot dish to keep it from stinking.
The fragment notes a joke about careful handling of eggs in the kitchen. It suggests cooks and helpers joke about who would make the best cook when precise handling is required.
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