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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1913
Page
3
A group of women discuss a newborn's weight with laughter and surprise. One recalls the infant weighing "three and a half pounds" and others gasp at the mention. The conversation ends with a confident claim of having done well in the moment.
Bertha Underwood of Tan narrates a six month treatment using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for scalp dermatitis with scaling and itching. She reports the condition fully healed within a month after applying the products and notes relief began promptly. The advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold worldwide with free samples and a Skin Book from Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.
A Chicago lad, bold and imitating adults, complains at table when his father talks, shouting with a mock adult tone. The boy, feeling snubbed, demands silence to insert his word, highlighting a playful yet tense family exchange.
A frazzled elder customer and a waiter exchange tense banter by a window table. The patron insists on removing an egg and grows wound up, finally commanding to wring its neck as the waiter asks what to do with it.
A humorous courtroom aside features Herbert asking why his mother does not travel with the circus. The judge notes she could be the strongwoman and wind him around her finger, as Herbert recalls his grandmother hearing this morning.
A doctor recalls a marriage era pantry shift from coffee to Postum. He and his wife noted digestive relief after switching, keeping Postum in daily use for years, and he urges readers to request the Road to Wellville booklet from Postum Co. at Battle Creek Michigan.
A historical excerpt compares how people from several nations prepare and eat boiled eggs. It describes English, French, Spaniard, Italian, German, and American preferences for egg texture, peeling, and consumption with bread, salt, pepper, and butter.
A Lyons Wisconsin boy trained a sheep and dog to draw a cart, building the harness himself. The pair worked as a practical team rather than a show act, and when asked to participate at a county fair the owner declined to avoid stressing the sheep and unsettling the dog.
A garbled OCR snippet features riddles about greed, sons, knapsacks, animals, and weather. It includes Q A pairs on plaid waistcoats, family inheritance, handcuffs, tourists, otters, strawberries, and a stray line about spurs and swift horses. The text is fragmentary with clipped phrases and misread punctuation.
Historic brief describes a prop routine where one hand supports the top of the other while a handkerchief drapes over the elephant head. The lower hand controls the trunk motion with the first finger, creating a swaying effect.
English phrenologist J Miller Severn argues that some heads keep growing after age forty amid measurements from prominent figures. Dr J B Mege of Paris counters that brain development continues until fifty. Severn cites hundreds of thousands of measurements over 25 years, claiming head size increases with continued brain activity.
A rubber comb is electrified by brisk rubbing with dry flannel and suspended by a silk thread. When a finger is placed underneath the comb it follows the finger as it moves, showing simple electrostatic effects described in Popular Electricity.
A fragmented note describes tickets priced at two cents each for Good-by Kiss travel. The text mentions Waterloo and London rail operations with references to trains, platforms, and passengers as a crowd gathers near departing trains.
The readable text shows a garbled discussion about a person named Mr Jones and a reference to a place or event. It mentions a person described as the nicest and includes stray phrases about a mower and an evening event. The source is too corrupted to identify clear facts or context.
The article explains that two identical steel springs with one wound tight dissolve in acids faster than the unwound one. The heated dissolution demonstrates that stored potential energy in the wound spring converts to heat, illustrating energy conservation per thermodynamics.
George Mc Crowley Jr of Newark New Jersey describes a self cleaning cuspidor for shops and public places. It uses a heavy copper flare top two inch brass nipple and trap with a top inlet angled to create a whirlpool wash ensuring thorough cleaning. A steady water stream may run in constant use.
Fragmentary 1913 data mention Colorado radium value at 2.5 million dollars, U S daily locomotive use over 61 thousand, a large textile workforce in Britain, and eight states producing mica led by North Carolina. Notes on a tufting sewing machine, a wire-free hydro aircraft prototype, Wisconsin lab accuracy, efficiency in New England shoe factories, Niagara asphalt repairs, Indian grass paper pulp use, and U S pottery output reaching 36.5 million dollars.
A German inventor has created pliers that automatically punch staples into papers. The device uses lever handles with springs in a casing housing a feeding mechanism. When closed, the rod drives a staple through the sheet and the anvil rivets it on the opposite side.
The wood greenheart outlasts iron and steel in water and dominates ship dock building. It is used for gates piers and jetties in Liverpool and many canals. Though found across several Guianas and Caribbean nations, harvesting is largely restricted to British Guiana along coastal areas.
A condensed description from Scientific American explains a method to form a socket wrench by drilling six small corner holes for a hexagon and one central large hole. The large hole cuts into the small holes, leaving little deburring.
A Texas inventor introduces a device that vibrates freshly laid concrete pavements and packs crushed granite into the surface, creating strengthened roads. The invention aims to improve durability and longevity of urban streets and highways.
In France vehicles per capita show one car per 500 people and one cycle per 0.13 people with motorcycles at about one per 1 382. Between 1910 and 1911 the nation saw a large rise adding roughly 300 000 cycles to the fleet.
Mexico's petroleum output last year nearly matched the combined totals of the two prior years showing a strong rebound in production across the sector.
A historical note warns that excessive self regard destroys trust and harms a person’s ability to attract buyers or customers. The piece highlights how vanity in business or social standing can backfire, limiting engagement and utility in exchange and reputation.
A man enters the book store of Dr. J. H. Rindlaub, an eye nose and throat specialist in Fargo, asking for fishing books. The clerk jokes that they have many works of fiction, suggesting the store leans toward novels rather than fishing manuals.
Local chat with Farmer Stubblegrass notes two uses for containers, storing peters or cider, and asks summer boarder from Boston about top sellers. The exchange hints at local tastes and seasonal demand shaping popular items.
A brief exchange features a woman urging a doctor to raise her baby with modern improvements, while the doctor dismisses the notion, describing the child as lacking any clear modern advances. The dialogue underscores tension between maternal wishes and perceived conventional wisdom.
Advertisement claims Tyree’s Antiseptic Powder relieves summer skin troubles like hives poison oak chafing and sunburn. Sold at druggists or via samples entered by J S Tyree Washington DC.
A fragment notes a social gathering hosted by Sout is and Moike at a card party. The chatter questions a black Republican presence and references Mal loney, with asides about a progressive party.
A Kansas City Star item recounts a humorous misfortune where a friend explains missing a party due to a mosquito bite preventing her from wearing a new skirt. The anecdote plays on a trivial accident and the discomfort of a social mishap.
Readers urged to inspect every bottle of_CASTORIA for the signature and safety assurances. The notice highlights Castoria as a trusted remedy used for over 30 years and notes that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
Mr Staylate recalls a morning concern from a father who fretted about proper courtesy after the narrator left without breakfast, revealing the tension and care in their exchanges. The dialogue centers on misjudgments and imagined offense, with the morning visit underscoring expectations of hospitality.
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