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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1924
Page
7
A fragment from the Ta TS81 era describes Missouri marriage laws as strict, forcing couples to prove age and eligibility to obtain licenses. The text recounts provincial steps to verify applicants and hints at a sharp line between clerks and judges. The piece quotes a minister remark about the need to show proof.
An 19th century ad asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh. It describes an ointment that relieves catarrhal inflammation and an internal tonic that acts through the blood on the mucous membranes.
A Detroit News item describes an immense ivory white gown created for Empress Eugenie. Labor by artisans spanned six months with a two month gauze production. The unique fabric required magnifying glasses by weavers, using extensive yards of gauze and overskirts to create a diaphanous cobweblike effect.
A historical review recounts Keene Wan and his long career of high stakes bets and losses. It notes ties to Jay Gould, a $40,100 wager on Bryan in 1868, failed bets across Western Union and wheat, and eventual bankruptcy in 1884. It also covers later efforts with whisky, American Sugar Refining, Brooklyn Rapid Transit, Third Avenue Railway, and a peak during United States Steel before a drastic collapse as Southern Pacific and New York Times era finished.
The pineapple, native to the Americas, grows wild in Brazil and Mexico and has been cultivated for royalty since the thirteenth century. Brazil holds the best varieties with unmatched flavor and pulp even abroad. December marks the season, yet no shipments reach the United States in midwinter for a likely strong market.
A newly appointed Supreme Court judge dines at a hotel and chats with a waitress named Mary. He extols freedoms in the country versus Ireland, noting she would never be in a room with a justice back home, to which she humorously retorts that he’d never be a nudge there either.
A Hot Springs girl found and read a set of letters written long ago by her mother to her father before marriage. The daughter passed them off as recent, provoking the mother to declare that such silly people should not be allowed to live. The mother added she had more sense as a girl.
Two travelers en route to Chicago misidentify the station air as salubrious and exhilarating. The conductor corrects them, noting they are both wrong and the word is Kalamazoo.
A fragmented dialogue shows Mrs. Dumpling and a tired listener discussing a newspaper account of firefighters allegedly playing on the ruins after a blaze. The garbled text hints at idle behavior and unsatisfactory oversight.
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