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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1902
Page
3
Bowser schemes to launch Bowser's One Day Cough Cure claiming a ten cent bottle cures a cold in one day. He boasts of vast profits and philanthropy while wife suspects quackery. After dosing himself, he experiences severe pains and hurries to the drugstore, returning home to find disaster and ridicule.
A spoof dialogue shows a schemer pitching a cough cure that would supposedly save millions by curing a cough in one day for ten cents, only to reveal the bottle vanishes as a quip about misdirection and folly. The humor mocks grandiose medical schemes and penny-pinching schemes in a wry newspaper voice.
A crowd gathers around a traveler claiming to have survived the 1894 Mississippi cyclone at Glendale. He tells how he stood in a hotel bar with a pepper sauce mistake, the bar keeper’s bottle hoisted, and the town wiped out in a flash, all while he kept his glass steady. The tale ends with the crowd dispersing and the narrator noting the peppering mishap.
A Chicago Tribune snippet recalls a hushed hallway moment where a companion teases a man about a growing mustache, capturing a sly domestic tease and a wink of humor in a city paper tone.
A St Louis physician Dr Blister complains of swindles from grateful patients. A doubtful payer asks about a morning stomach pain and the doctor answers with a fee. The column includes quips about good books larceny and aging, with assorted jokes and witticisms.
A Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph piece celebrates winter woes and joys as freezing pipes, snow shovels, and icy streets disrupt daily life yet spark cheer from skaters and sledders. It notes townsfolk grumble while others embrace the season’s playful side and carnival of ice.
A promotional notice for the 1902 World Almanac and Encyclopedia touting its reliability and scope. It highlights features such as lists of millionaires, labor statistics, the Nicaragua Canal, Hay-Pauncefote treaties, aerial navigation progress, census data, and extensive topics. Price is 25 cents in stores, 35 cents by mail with 10 cents postage to The World, New York.
Frank Work McLaughlin died December 23 1901 in Fort Morgan Colorado, aged 25 years 6 months and 6 days. A charter member of the Washington Y P E G E organized seven years ago he remained active in Christian Endeavor church and Sabbath school work and the choir. The society adopts resolutions mourning the loss and offering sympathy to his family and friends.
The Chicago News notes Bid For Bluffers and Quinn discuss a new country club seen as perfect for poker. De Fonte questions the appeal while Quinn argues it sits on a bluff, highlighting the venue’s strategic charm.
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