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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1906
Page
12
A garbled report recalls a disturbing bilingual excerpt describing a mutilated family scene with references to nobility and strange names. The fragment hints at a child’s future, concubinage implications, and an annexed Jap resident in a distant place, signaling a controversial wartime era account from the Times.
A servant delivers flowers to Miss Avice as a stricken man confronts his private sorrow. In a nearby scene, a family discusses a ruined wine auction and a hopeful but risky engagement, while a narrator notes a broader decline in society and a shifting world.
A sprawling social scene unfolds in a lavish Manhattan home overlooking the Hudson as foreign nobles and explorers mingle with American magnates. Guests include Baron Bonavit de Palliac and a Texas beard vogue, while Miss Millicent Higbee and her mother oversee a stylish evening of banter, fashion, and talk of marriages and fortunes.
Baron Renault de Palialc and Launton Oldaker mingle with Miss Psyche Bines and Miss Higbee at a New York club dinner. Oldaker notes old families are fading, while the scene hints at wealth, taste, and social maneuvering beneath opulent surroundings. To be continued.
A traveller on horseback halts at a dilapidated shanty and asks for dinner. The househead boasts of soon having food but delivers poor fare. When milk is requested, the host explains the dog fetches it, noting the animals don’t know enough to eat from the milk themselves.
An experienced California mining man, H Branc her, warns fortunes in mining are elusive. He recalls the Kiondike boom where his one fourth stake yielded 45000 after a winter, but only 5000 net after expenses. He notes many failures are rarely advertised.
A clipped parody of early 20th century ads and anecdotes notes that Mr. Saunders told a British Lords committee he could detect smokers by handwriting, calling handwriting a “cinematograph of the heart.” It also promotes Defiance Starch as safe and strong, plus a brief testimonial about Cuticura remedies curing hand sores after three doctors failed.
The narrator remarks that Notre Dame remains wondrous as it appears from a bridge on the Seine and again as she walks the quays toward the Pont Neuf. The scene tightens to the island and the great facade facing the calm square, renewed by familiar awe.
A famed author famed for precision in prose allegedly based a romantic story on a real life circle. A friend challenged the tale citing Miss Blankfort, but the writer coolly admitted he needed the money. Minnesota excursion ads promise weekly trips and cross region rates with liberal limits and stepovers.
A fragmentary advertisement and essay blend discusses tobacco nicotine in leaf hairs, home laundering with Defiance Starch for shirt waists, a Terence quip on wisdom and folly, Defiance Starch selling benefits, Mexican coffee favor of the Kaiser, and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claimed for teething and colic relief.
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