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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1908
Page
5
A dealer describes catarrh cures and warns against blind trust in patent medicines. He emphasizes honesty, urges customers to rely on the store’s experience, and offers a single assured remedy with a money back guarantee if it fails to cure.
The fragment shows Stier Clothing Co promoting a clearance sale with promises of great bargains and customers getting value. Several lines reference special sales tactics and price reductions aimed at attracting buyers. The text is garbled but centers on discount clothing offers and urgency.
A fragmented mosaic: a divinity student juggling work and deception about his studies, a nod to Bryan replacing Mallory in Florida’s Senate shift, and quips about lovers of dreams from an organ loft. The piece blends personal resolve, political futures, and light theater of everyday life.
A New York Press note reports three stylish boarding school girls riding an express at Seventy second street with enormous hats, seating themselves neatly despite crowding. A Seattle Times item then mentions E G Simon, a Samoa cocoa planter, claiming Germany refreshes its coconut supply by replacing old trees with young trees, and criticizes U S neglect of Samos while foreign powers profit.
Tennyson recounted a Chinese scholar who found two lines of his poetry in an untranslated poem. Byron mirrors an ancient Sanskrit document about Mary’s death in his Sheridan elegy, though he could not have seen the source. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet paraphrase aligns with Bhavabuti’s Malata and Madhava nine centuries earlier.
New York, with 4,000,000 population, had been widening to its total in the three years preceding 1905 at the rate of 100,000 a year. Philadelphia, with a little less than 1,000,000 population had increased at the rate of 0,000 a year.
L Oignon notes an interesting elopement involving Skipp-Gayley and says the mother has not forgiven them. Tote de Veau adds that she has gone to live with the couple, highlighting strained family relations and social tension in the community.
A joke recounts a crow punishment tale from an officer and private. The private eats crow under fire, then the officer joins in. A later quip features the First and Second Summer Girl jokes about keeping cool with two admirers at the seashore, the latter delivering a playful punchline.
Two efforts resume to transform the Newark Jersey City area into productive land and a potential deep water port. A bureau chief surveys irrigation and drainage options. A War Department engineer weighs a Newark to New York bay ship canal plan.
A humorous exchange frames a dispute as a daughter jeers at a father and the father retorts over a clairvoyant’s fee. The kid challenges paternity while the parent defends authority in a comic dialogue.
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