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Newspaper
Ireton Clipper
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1891
Page
7
A mid nineteenth century reflection on teaching in June. The weary teacher longs for outdoor play and rest yet envisions a future where virtue, guidance, and noble leaders inspire children. A motherly mentor recalls lessons from childhood and warns against corruption that would stain honest names.
Janet, a beautiful girl, travels with Judge Seaton's party to Long Branch and the Catskills where Tom Seaton wins her affection. He replaces her engagement ring with a diamond, keeping Jack Hilliard's plain gold band, stirring memories of her first love. Janet returns home to find the camphor box and a hidden treasure, a white shawl and silk, within.
Janet grieves for Jack after his ship burns at sea and misfortune leads to a hurried engagement with Tom Seaton. Christmas brings news of Jack alive, his kiss and proof of survival, and Janet’s tale of folly is forgiven as they renew their vows.
Four women at Widow Berry’s home near the city heard an owl and chickens in a tree. A pistol shot outside struck a man in the forehead, who had been impersonating an owl to steal chickens. The Dawson News reports the event.
A hungry petty thief in Topeka Kansas demanded food and left unpaid. The cashier drew a pistol, the man mistook it for a stomach pump and left in relief after learning he had no funds to pay. The exchange ended with the tramp departing calmly.
Deresa C. Crofton, in St. Nicholas, describes early human tool evolution from stone to bronze and iron. The narrative covers hunter toolmaking, the shift to sharpened stones, spears, knives, bows and arrows, mortars, and early ornaments. It notes fire discovery and speculative origins of fire.
A survivor recounts emigration from Springfield Iowa in spring 1846 to California, detailing family leadership by James Reed and the Donners, winter fears of Indian attacks, and Grandma Keyes storytelling of Virginia and Kentucky captivity that color the emigrants' memories of threatening plains and Native tribes.
A jovial man recalls a New York Tribune tale about trying to cut alcohol by limiting daily drinks. He jokes his wife’s advice to reduce to six then five or four drinks per day backfires as he hoards drinks and finds his self discipline faltering. The anecdote ends with the man admitting his wife is right in her practical counsel.
A fragment from a social column shows a neighborly call about Mrs Newcomer’s children and rumors of social climbing. The exchange hints at wealth, aspirations, and a husband living on his wife’s money as a punchline about Winkers.
An assortment of short items from a newspaper includes claims for Syrup of Figs as a family laxative, a Berlin Philosophical Society prize for essays on nature, a word-find contest tied to Dr. Harter’s Tonic ads, a Bloomfield farmer’s land mound disappearance, a Detroit doctor praising Hall's Catarrh Cure, a juror mishap in St Louis, Piso’s Cure for Coughs, and a Georgia infant prodigy who can read music at four.
An old advertisement voice claims Castoria for infants and children with repeated testimonials. Separately Philadelphia clergy face fines for unreported marriages. A U.S. drug trade piece notes New York pharmacists debating labor unions amid long hours and possible night calls.
A testimonial from Mrs. Sarah M Black of Seneca Missouri describes two years of neuralgia affecting head stomach and womb with poor appetite yellowing of the face dull head left side pain morning mucus taste and breath issues. She notes winter spring worsens and cold extremities with sleepless nights until using August Flower produced marked improvement and claimed cure from Woodbury New Jersey distributor G G Green sole agent.
A rural ad proclaims Kennedy of Roxbury Massachusetts mastering a medical discovery that cures deep seated ulcers inward tumors and all skin diseases except thunder humor and cancer. Sold by every druggist in the United States and Canada for $1.50.
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