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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
8
A satirical catalog illustration from Klondike Incubator Co. Des Moines uses a colored hen and brood of ducks before the male head to mock duck hatching success. It touts an 82 percent average hatch and offers a catalog on request. Also includes brief jokes and legal notice snippets.
A column of vintage advertisements promotes rheumatism and backache remedies. Claims include a whiskey based tonic recipe, Pettit's Eye Salve for tired eyes, and Betchen's Relief for rheumatism promising relief in days. Also features a fur firm, a lure about guessing intuition, and light sentiment.
The excerpt recounts Dorothy in Kansas swept to Oz by a cyclone and meeting the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion on the road to the Emerald City. They face dangers including poppy fields and a perilous river as they seek the Wizard of Oz to return Dorothy home.
In a Riverside scene the Woodman crafts a wooden truck from tree limbs to carry a Lion as mice stream in from all directions with strings, while Dorothy awakens from a song signaling a shift in the tale.
Dorothy and friends travel through a green land toward the Emerald City. The Lion wakes from a poppy sleep and thanks the Field Mice for saving him. They seek audience with Oz to gain brains, a heart, courage, and a way home as villagers wonder about the Wizard.
A woman who employs a Chinese cook recounts a pudding incident illustrating replication of her actions. She notes the cook added five eggs instead of three after watching her smell eggs, then correctly identified two bad eggs she had discarded. The tale ties to a broader claim about Chinese people imitating others.
London Times notes humans fear earthquakes more than many dangers yet regions prone to quakes remain inhabited. It argues earthquakes are acts of God and unpredictable like death, but unlike death may not affect all, shaping inconsistent risk attitudes.
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