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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
10
The article argues that beauty in clothing should be modest and purposeful, warning that fashion excess corrupts character and erodes ambition. It laments how dress distracts from virtue, citing social costs to poor workers and urging inner grace over outward ornament.
A male writer argues why more women remain unmarried, blaming female business activity and independence for reduced marriage rates. He contends many women fail to seize opportunities, warns against overly eager social behavior, and urges women to appear refined to improve chances of marriage.
The text notes polygamy arises from heavy domestic burdens on women. It reports that women fetch water, cook, and farm while men idle in palaver houses. Marriage varies by tribe with wealthy men taking multiple wives and no formal ceremony in some groups.
A testimonial from Charles Cole of Iola Kansas endorses Doan's Kidney Pills claiming relief from irregular kidney secretions backache and swelling with two years of good health since using the product. The ad urges readers to remember the name and buy at 60 cents a box from Fos ter Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
In Thirteenth district Tammany circles Mr. Hogan faces widow Casey at her husband’s funeral. Hogan's long tribute reveals they never met before today, though he praises the deceased’s qualities and offers condolences to Mrs Casey in a poignant, paradoxical moment.
Charles T Bauer of Volant Pennsylvania describes twelve years of eczema on hands arms and feet with swelling itching and raw skin. After trying many salves doctors and failings he used Cuthurs Remedies and saw rapid improvement with no recurrence. March 11 1908. Potter Dru Chem Corp sole proprietors Boston.
George-There s Miss Passay. She claims she s never been kissed. Harry-Why, I ve kissed her myself, years ago. She means not since she can remember, A City Clerk s Garden. Five colleagues visit to see the clerk s boastful garden and discover a tiny yard with a sky high claim.
A widow writes to Mr Robert Marshall, a London police court missionary, asking if a very respectable man might wed again. The note, dated in the mid years, shows a bold matchmaking plea and ends with a claim the man deserves no sympathy for being duped by a pretty woman.
A collection of curious vignettes and ads from a bygone era. A child ponders a water droplet under a microscope, a farmer tests barley and corn yields from tiny plots, and miscellaneous jokes, remedies, and product pitches fill the page with offbeat humor and fragmentary observations.
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