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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1899
Page
7
Poem fragment from Harper's Magazine lamenting love and mortality. The speaker recalls eternal seekings and two angels, one to return and one to guide home, with imagery of seasons, cups spilled, and a final rest or roam. The tone is reflective and somber about love’s end and spiritual ascent.
A narrator, calling Monty a lordly, lazy, indolent suitor, recounts Monty toying with marriage to Effie a seventeen year old ward. Monty mocks romance, prefers money and career, insists Effie be domesticated, and the wedding proceeds amid humorous jabs at names and matrimony.
The Chicago Record describes the Kaiser's personal war game called griegspiel. Count von Schlieffen leads the session with staff. players arrange colored bricks as armies on a green table. The game tests strategy under air line distances, force strength, and gun ranges, with the Kaiser aim to trip up rivals.
An advertisement promotes Grain-O as a healthful coffee substitute. It emphasizes that it is not medicine but a nourishing grain beverage with a rich brown color and coffee-like taste. The pitch targets children and adults, urging readers to ask grocers for Grain-O priced at 15 and 25 cents.
Magnetic life vigor and quitting tobacco offered by No-To-Bac. Cure guaranteed with booklet and free sample. Available through all druggists for 50 cents. Address Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New York for details.
An old medical advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery claiming diseases start in the stomach and are cured by healing digestion. It features patient Mrs. Ken E. Bacon of Shutesbury Mass who reports dramatic improvement and weight gain after using the remedy. The ad also promotes free medical advice and offers mail order volumes for purchase.
Wanted several bright and honest persons to act as managers in this and nearby counties. Salary nine hundred dollars a year plus expenses. Permanent position with office work primarily at home. References from any bank in any town. Enclose self addressed stamped envelope. Department 3 Chicago.
Claims a day cure for rheumatism and neuralgia with rapid action and full relief after first dose. States 75 cents and available from all druggists in Indiana. Also promotes Cascarets Candy Candies to cleanse blood, improve skin, and remove impurities, priced 10, 25, or 50 cents with guarantee.
An advertisement touts Armour fertilizers for pure ground bone and world reading quality, notes Lister leads in dissolved bone and potash, claims Quinnipiac avin phosphate is top grade, promises first quality acid, and urges customers to inspect stock and compare prices before buying.
Brilharts advertises a broad selection of home wares and money saving options. It promotes decorated dinner sets and toilet sets newly received, lamps and lamp trimmings, plain and fancy glassware, an eight day clock with half hour strike at $2.33, iron express wagons priced 98c to $1.63, screen doors 44c, plus brooms brushes and baskets as part of a house furnishings lineup.
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