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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1915
Page
4
Ad copy touts Red Cross Bag Blue as making beautiful white clothes. Mentions Barber and Victim dialogue as a fragment from a Boston Truth feature. Promotes availability at all good grocers.
A brief quirky note discusses remedies to remove a pip from chickens. It mentions a proposed garden trap or catch and implies a practical rustic approach to poultry ailment without detailing methods. The language reflects a homey, instructional tone from a local column.
A playful back and forth centers on a character leaving new friends over their cheap car, highlighting social friction and pride in possessions. Pack remarks on liking friends yet choosing distance because of the economical vehicle.
A humorous exchange has a clerk named Goldbug asking his boss for ten more dollars a week. The boss questions the request and quips about how many women the clerk plans to marry, highlighting comic banter.
The article notes German invaders spared park trees in Belgium while cavalrymen were forbidden to tie horses to trunks to prevent bark damage. It mentions Germany’s long history of state forestry with crown forests scientifically managed for over a century.
Fred Jumper of Parsons Pennsylvania faced a wounded black bear on the Pocono mountain. His companion Lewis Edwards fired a shot that struck the bear in the head, stopping its charge as Jumper stood within a yard. Edwards, carrying a rifle, aimed for a vital spot and saved Jumper from a fatal end.
A colored man visits Mrs Baxley seeking employment and reveals his name as Poe. She mistakes him for having family ties to Edgar Allan Poe, and he confirms his identity with a playful twist, saying he is Edgah Allan Poet.
President Wilson addresses a joint session outlining the need to mobilize resources and shipping, expand merchant marine, open foreign markets, boost rural credits, survey coasts, and strengthen national defense while preserving peace. He urges practical economy and a citizen army as the core of security.
A woman finds a delicate water pattern silk on a back platform and returns it to the store lost and found. Two weeks later she wears a waist made from the same silk, admitting she kept the piece but later retrieved it herself.
Henry Jackson Waters of Kansas State Agricultural College spoke to the agricultural society about dried grasshoppers in the Philippines. He cited a yearly Manila market of about three thousand tons and described a driving method using a kerosene-filled tank to trap the insects for drying and sale. He also noted a Brasshopper plague every decade and suggested Dean's poisoned bran mash as a more effective control method.
Catherine Breshkovsky, aged seventy known as Baboushka, was imprisoned at Irkutsk and banished to the arctic circle for anarchistic activities after an attempted escape. She had toured the United States years earlier.
Two months after disappearing from Rob ert Owen of 311 North Hardesty avenue a brindle Boston bull terrier named Buster was found and purchased by a Kansas City theater owner. Buster matched Owen at the Globe theater when a New York act was on stage and the dog identifi ed him, ending an eventful period from street outcast to actor.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Ointment for pimples blackheads and skin smoothing with a five minute application followed by Cuticura Soap and hot water. It also touts a free sample offer via a post card to Cuticura Boston. A separate joke references Senator Sniffensnuff chewing and a boy asking about his lost chew from the Youngstown Telegram.
This notice urges mothers to check every bottle of Castoria for the authentic signature and notes Castoria has been in use for over 30 years. It emphasizes that infants and children benefit from Fletcher's Castoria and that children cry for it.
The Martins trip left eight year old Edward at home with master Edward. He sent his father daily letters each containing a shining dime. After several gifts Edward wrote a terse note begging his father to write more often, signing himself loving son Edward.
The tale recalls Alderman Curran of New York who funded his Yale education with three eight hour jobs. He studied law, worked as a newspaper reporter, and sold life insurance to pay expenses. A friend asks how he manages it all, and Curran says they are all eight hour jobs.
A fragment shows dialogue about marriage and shared thinking. A husband notes that his wife often misreads the mutual thought, while the other responds that the situation is similar though misinterpretations occur about half the time.
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