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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1901
Page
3
An August visit by a French couple at a Swiss hotel exposes a forged marriage for money and a brewing plot of jealousy. The husband Dubar, 50, feigns reconciliation while secretly plotting revenge as the narrator overhears his muttered French curses and cold calculations. The group plans a mountain luncheon trip that hints at a fateful turn.
A man recalls watching Dubar and his wife on a mountain path. From a cliff above a ravine the husband pushes his wife to her death. Dubar flees to sound the alarm and the body is found at the inn before noon. The narrator, witness to the act, keeps silent as the tragedy unfolds.
A dinner party trick involves a pack placed in a soup tureen with a chosen card, the ace of spades, appearing as the seventeenth card. The performer later reveals the explanation, noting the pack contained 52 aces of spades.
In a rhetoric class at the Blank University, Professor Dash condemns split infinitives though a student cites a distinguished author who defends them. The professor quips the author is heterodox in precept yet rigid in example, highlighting irony in pedantic language debates.
A London Chronicle item notes a humorous bit about a gentleman praising a famous soap and a female Post Office Savings Bank depositor who cannot write. Her marriage certificate bore a signature. she explains the sexton held her hand with the pen, and since then she has never used a pen.
A report cites a grand scheme to establish an eastern model industrial town organized by modern business methods to maximize welfare. It also extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy and strengthener, claiming wide global use and proven benefits.
Bold medicine ad promises one day cure for a cold using Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails. Each box bears E. W. Grove's signature and is priced at 25 cents.
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