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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1915
Page
3
A collage of wry quips and captions from various sources lampoons marriage, fashion, war, and dating. Jokes touch on coffee quality, cooking, friendship, poker nights, dentistry, and a college boy's economics postgrad plan, with quick punchlines and local flavor.
An Ohio woman recounts four years of heart trouble and nervous prostration tied to coffee. After switching to Postum she reports improved health, steady nerves, and resumed daily work, praising Postum Cereal and Instant Postum sold by grocers.
A crowd surrounds Judge Ostrander’s secluded home after a widow visits to seek help to clear her murdered husband’s memory. Deborah Scoville and her lawyer uncover clues from clippings, a knife blade, a cap, and a shadowed figure linked to Oliver, the judge’s son, in a saga of past murder and hidden loyalties.
In a tense study scene, Deborah implies a forged document changed by the judge, as he wrestles with Oliver’s accusation and the fate of the Ostrander family. The judge asks Black to arrange a secret telegram for Archibald Ostrander, while Mrs. Scoville lies exhausted and torn between duty and sympathy.
At the gate scene Mrs Scoville and Mr Black discuss Oliver Ostrander’s disappearance and plan to surprise him. Reuther volunteers to locate him, while Flannagan’s police briefing hints at looming danger. Night falls as Reuther and Black prepare to travel toward Tempest lodge, hoping for a safe crossing.
A writer in the Wise World recounts an iceberg near Newfoundland that the passengers of a steamship forced the captain to inspect. As the berg split and shifted, a massive underwater shelf toppled toward the vessel, washing it to safety after a towering wave. The incident shows how iceberg collapses create distant, powerful waves that threaten ships far away.
In a table talk attributed to Napoleon Buonaparte the young commander faced veteran generals Rampon and others who urged patience and strategy while he declared that the art of war was in its infancy and that fights would no longer be politely arranged with formalities before firing.
The first shell fired at Toulon by Bonaparte struck and destroyed the hotel where he and his family had lived after leaving Corsica. The blast killed the husband of the foster sister of his mother, who ran the hotel. The account appears in The Napoleon Anecdotes edited by W H Ireland.
Cleveland Ohio and Hanover Pennsylvania letters praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from Female troubles and avoidance of surgery. Testimonies cite long standing pains, improved health, and willingness to recommend the product. The company invites readers to write for confidential guidance.
A gunner in the Garrison artillery wearing hammer and pincers on his sleeve jokes he is a qualified army dentist. He explains the hammer is used to knock out nervous patients who resist chloroform, as a substitute.
A reflective maxim urges patience with others and self, noting that you cannot shape others to your wishes nor fully perfect yourself. The quote by Thomas a Keupis emphasizes inward progress over changing others.
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