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Newspaper
Keota News
Location
Keota, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1911
Page
6
Wise asks about the veiled woman and Howe wonders why she wears the veil. Wise explains she fears the sun might blister the paint, revealing a curious domestic exchange.
A Wisconsin farmer took his twelve year old son to a village in February and the boy, overwhelmed by a train of cars, lost the power of speech for three weeks. The tale suggests he would be struck dumb at future circuses or zoos and that his father's farm should be hidden away.
A historical quip attributed to Burkitt offers guidance on sharing praise publicly and handling private matters with prudence. The maxim emphasizes balanced communication and discretion in interpersonal conduct.
A Chicago reader testifies to the healing effect of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female weakness and stomach trouble. The ad urges insistence on the product amid substitutions and touts thirty years of use as a standard remedy for women’s health.
A Minneapolis St Paul and Sault Ste Marie passenger train wreck near Verges Minnesota killed two. A tornado near Pekin Idaho killed two and caused substantial property damage. The Chicago Northwestern passenger station opened at a cost of 23750000. Roosevelt spoke at Newark unveiling a Lincoln statue by Borglum. Fire destroyed grain elevators and a malting house in Sheboygan Wisconsin with 300000 in losses.
Milwaukee capitalist George O. Harper reaches a deal with local ranchers to fund a $350000 railroad from Maher country to Hotchkiss aimed at opening gypsum claims along the Gunnison river and starting operation of a new $100000 gypsum mill. About $125900 of the half million in new improvements has already been subscribed locally.
A Marmaduke saying notes that asking a favor of an enemy can turn into a friendship while asking a favor of a friend may create an adversary. The adage highlights the risks and dynamics of requests across relationships.
A terse exchange contrasts a visitor urging departure with a native claiming local limits never blight ambition. The dialogue hints at stalled success and the pull of imagined elsewhere in a town.
A short Harper's Monthly vignette portrays Johnny Williams as a mischievous boy whose misdeeds prompt his Sunday school teacher to lament never meeting him in heaven. The piece centers on moralizing the boy's behavior through a humorous didactic tone.
A successful young woman shares how Grape-Nuts eased nervous prostration and dyspepsia after years of brain strain. She credits the diet with stabilizing health, enabling her to keep working, and praises noon lunches with fruit and milk or cream.
A remark in the Yonkers Statesman notes a French inventor mounted crow wings and tail on a wire frame for an air device. Mrs Styles quips the contraption could serve as a hat, signaling a humorous take on early aviation experiments.
In a London Sketch Farmers Giles disputes a cashing sum with a cashier who insists the amount is correct. The exchange ends with Giles acknowledging the total is just right after a cautious recount.
An ambitious amateur actor pesters a club manager for a part and is finally cast as the heroine’s father. The manager explains the father dies six years before the curtain rises, illustrating the meta humor of the era.
A compilation of curious definitions and statistics from the era. It covers social terms, lunar and ocean life estimates, hair exports, wealth figures, hydroplane speed, library etiquette, railway costs, disease spread by wind, Civil War enlistments, and Norway's 1910 foreign trade totals with import and export breakdowns.
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