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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
2
A medley of short comic vignettes and childlike questions from a Chicago News column. Anecdotes include a teacher and pupils on heat and cold, a boy taunting about punishment, a dentist quip, a window-phobia horse tale from the Philadelphia Ledger, and family banter about bonnets money and stinginess.
A fragmented excerpt shows banter on engagements and credit rumors with mock dialogue from London Punch and Philadelphia Press jokes. The lines reference a skeptic novelist Mr Ego and a teasing young woman, Tammy, with playful remarks and a Bostonian tone.
A Long Prairie boy imagines an eagle snatching a child and his father repeats the tale as fact. The piece contrasts vivid imagination with factual reporting, arguing for training to distinguish vision from reality while cautioning against silencing visionary thought.
J Hampton Moore, chief of the bureau of manufactures in the department of commerce and labor, is profiled in Philadelphia for his keen insight into finance. A young woman asks whether to invest 25000 in government bonds at 8 percent or in Zaza gold mine stocks at 15 percent. Moore replies that for dining well choose gold mine investment, but for sleeping well choose government bonds.
The article notes Tom Carter's return to the U S Senate from Montana may revive the snuff habit there. It recalls a time ten to twelve years ago when many senators used ground snuff, with Carter ex Senator George of Mississippi and Senator Beck of Kentucky among frequent tasters, now a rare sight.
Reports claim King Edward may grant a peerage to Sir George White the defender of La dysmith. London papers propose the title Lord La dyemith. Sir George te has amassed many postnominals including the Bath Michael and Gooree Star of India and Indian Empire, with various royal and academic honors. He seems to prize the Victoria Cross above all, though the bronze medal is plain.
Speculation runs high in mining circles about the Cullinan diamond had it not been found on the surface. A stone of that size could be lost or destroyed if washed away or broken by rollers, with Wells the finder reportedly receiving a five figure reward.
The London Globe notes 2 461 newspapers active in the UK with 1 881 in England, 111 in Wales, 201 in Scotland, 191 in Ireland and 17 in the Isles. Daily papers total 18 percent in England and Scotland, 7 in Wales and Ireland, 4 in the Isles.
A French commission proposes that love be the basis of marriage declaring spouses must love each other. Supported by Paul Herrieu and Marcel Provost, the idea would invalidate marriages of convenience and alter literary and theatrical works on marriage. The London Chronicle notes potential upheaval to social norms and arts.
A Metropolis page carries a claim that Bucklow's Arnica Salve drew out blood poison from a friend, saving his life, and notes other health advertisements. Also features a sensational quote about a Tampa man cured by Electric Bitters and promotions for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, baby remedies, and a stationery sale at Horton & Burns Drug Co. The piece blends medical ads with editorial jabs at subscriber behavior and a brief, shifting notice about the paper’s own operations.
A compact ad notes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy to tiredness with claims of restoring strength and appetite. It mentions 35 conta per tea box and references Hor ton & Burns Brug Uo with unspecified product details.
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