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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1913
Page
3
A Philadelphia Ledger note recounts Richard Mansfield recalling childhood London hunger inspiring lines for Beau Brummel and the concept of suggestion used to powerful dramatic effect. It also cites a Wall Street thirst tale leading to the song The Old Oaken Bucket and a clever family remark about nostalgia.
S O Garden from Clarkfield Minnesota describes a long lasting itchy leg condition that started as small red and yellow spots and worsened over two years. After trying various salves he found relief using Cuticura Soap and a fifty cent tin of Cuticura Ointment. six weeks of use completed the cure. Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold worldwide with free samples and a 32 page Skin Book.
A carpenter proposes building plans to a young European American workman in an outlying district. The contractor asks about the kind of place desired and suggests a cottage, but the client replies with a humorous mishearing about “bunghole,” reflecting a light local exchange from the Youngstown Telegram.
Mildred Lawson, an American dancing girl, debuted in London last month. English critics praised her dancing but complained about the scantiness of her costumes. Lawson forwarded the criticisms to a New York agent with a letter noting the fuss over her dresses.
Safe and sure remedy highlighted for infants and children since over 30 years. Encourages caregivers to check bottles for the signature and notes children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a glee club member jokes about a refrain while a friend teases that more refrains improve his liking of the tune. The banter highlights lighthearted backstage humor and character interplay.
A Paréel Post item questions whether a bulldog can be mailed noting a playful aside about cats and mail. The fragment hints at a postal curiosity or comic note regarding sending a dog through mail channels.
The London Daily Mail reports electric current therapy at St Bartholomew's hospital. Ionic medicine, first used by Le duc of Paris in 1903, treats rodent ulcer with zinc ions via lint pads and a zinc electrode. Sessions last ten to fifteen minutes, sometimes aided by cocainisation to reduce pain.
The Scientific American describes an invention by A Schlosser of Dodge Nebraska that improves telephone attachments. It focuses on detecting unauthorized parties listening to party line conversations with a simpler more effective detector.
Electrification of Kiruna to Riksgransen lines is nearly complete and plans extend to the Stockholm to Malmo and Stockholm to Gothenburg trunks. Total project cost under consideration totals about 30 million dollars for lines, 20 million for transmission and equipment, and 10 million for a new generating station.
The period notes Smyrna to gain an electric street railway while Berlin experiments with electric mail cars. It highlights fish organs delivering shocks, German hair curling devices, Paris underground railways carrying hundreds of millions of passengers, and English shipboard electric heaters. U.S. electric exports topped 23 million dollars. cedar growth limits pole sizes. the Juan Fernandez island is tied to Robinson Crusoe lore. Copenhagen forms a wireless station to clean and disinfect telephones.
A Popular Mechanics noted portable vulcanizing outfit uses an electric heating element between two plates to repair inner tubes and outer casings. It includes the vulcanizer 15 feet of wiring a rheostat on a clamping board straps and a thermometer for uniform heat.
A lake steamer has installed an emergency electric lighting setup using storage batteries on an upper deck. Batteries charge during the day when main lights are off. The system mirrors theater practice in Europe and a Chicago theater, aimed at safer exits after the Iroquois disaster highlighted lighting failures at night.
The device uses a novel distribution principle with a special upper reflector and a stepped lower distributor. An opal glass or aluminium reflector directs light downward while a clear frosted glass assembly hides the source, reflecting most light through clear rings for a bright, eye friendly glow.
A London electrician unveils a safe unlocked by a tuning fork. The fork’s vibrations cause a wire inside to vibrate in harmony and drive the mechanism electrically to open the container.
An international association of automobile clubs hangs a prize of $100,000 for the best gasoline substitute that is readily available in large quantities and cannot be monopolized.
Telephones enabling outside throat transmission have been invented for rescue work when an oxygen helmet covers the mouth. The device allows communication without exposing the mouth to open air and could aid miners or rescuers in difficult conditions.
An English designed electric room heater sends heated air toward the floor via a movable parabolic mirror positioned above the lamp, shaping the airflow.
The article notes the installation of the largest four gas chandeliers ever built in an Atlanta auditorium. Two chandeliers provide about 10 680 candlepower from fifteen lamps.
An entertain ment at a seaside clubhouse featured an Emigrant themed party titled All Aboard for the Manor Dock. Guests dressed in n um erous costumes like Dutch peasants and Cork immigrants with prizes for a Russian Jewish family and a lively grand march passed the inspector s health check. Refreshments and games added to the country station mood and the event suggested as a money making option for church societies or clubs with flag decorations as a possible theme.
Children play a simple game where one child calls themselves the cobbler and sits while others dance around holding hands. The cobbler reaches for a participant's feet with a quick motion, while the ring tries to dance away. If a child is caught they may become the cobbler.
A hostess can present small gifts like hosiery and handkerchiefs in a Jack Horner style pie. Guests pull ribbons at dessert time and invent playful excuses to reveal each gift to the honored guest.
A fragment discusses small gifts for a social event, recommending a sentimental donor card read aloud. It suggests wrapping handkerchiefs and stockings in tissue with fringed ends to resemble popular motto favors, with ribbons tied and placed in the pie.
At the fortieth wedding anniversary a dining room display featured dolls in reproductions of the bride and groom’s wedding outfits. A daughter wore the mother’s gown, guests compared fashions, and place cards showed photos from the original and current day with “Forty Years After.” Cards included pictures of the first and current homes with dates on cake boxes.
List of simple balanced dishes includes watermelons and cantaloupes with sherry, consommé and bread sticks, salmon croquettes with tartare sauce, roast beef with brown gravy, stewed tomatoes, grape jam, chipped pears, Parker House rolls, fruit ice, tomato salad, cheese balls, sandwiches, peach mousse cake, coffee and bonbons. Also beefsteak, creamed potatoes, tiny radishes, spiced figs, apricot marmalade, baking powder biscuits, wafers, peaches, sponge cake, and cat coffee.
A town paper recalls a nostalgic party pastime where players name items starting with a chosen letter. The leader guides with examples like Atlanta Amiens Alabama amethyst artichoke ape arctics, inviting endless questions and renewed youthfulness.
Link cuff buttons gain in fashion seen on coats. Dull silver handwrought design sold for eight dollars a pair. More attractive links with silver settings and lapis lazuli fetch fifteen dollars.
An old advertisement praises Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething relief, claiming painless gums and wind colic cure for 25 cents a bottle. The note adds a tongue in cheek line about political speech, stating some remarks remain enigmatic while silence invites more guesses.
In a New York Sun column a query about Becker asks if she is married. The feature riffs on status and societal norms while noting the public interest in personal life.
An exchange about a guest in a summer hotel features quips on marriage, names, and memories. A landlord recalls a visitor content with meals and scenery yet disappointed by sunsets not meeting his expectations.
A man says loving praise feels off to him while a young woman accepts with shy humor. They gaze at the night sky and fall into a deep quiet, each pondering the meaning of the other's affection as stars twinkle above.
Windom Kansas resident Miss Mary A. Horner credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her bladder trouble and female weakness after other doctors failed She urges other women to try the tonic and notes its long standing reputation with roots and herbs The company offers confidential advice from a woman at Lynn Mass via mail.
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