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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
8
An article extols Peruna as a renowned remedy for climatic diseases and kidney issues. It cites Dr. Hart’s private practice and claims decades of use with many testimonials. It also mentions E E Law of Brazil Indiana and his 1400 marriages linking to the “MARRYING SQUIRE.”
Fragmentary OCR item appears to be a price list or notice from Burton with references to gold, weights, and envelopes on application. The readable elements mention central and bolleited Reno and pricing terms, though full context is unclear.
A Dundee Advertiser report presents frontier ideas on educating kids with simple terms not technical jargon. It favors practical language games to shape tone and breath, then offers a humorous tale of a long legged deer mounted above a dining room sideboard illustrating child curiosity.
A fragmented poem page recalls Old Favorites on a vee and a child’s yearning tale. It also presents Anonymous Frogs at School about twenty froggies learning rules under Master Bullfrog, ending with them becoming teachers.
A fragmentary medical ad warns against nonreputable products and Mercury based cures. It references Kline's goods sold at 121 Arch Street Philadelphia and emphasizes buying genuine Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. The text also includes a brief coin flip of a social scene from a Chicago Tribune excerpt.
A Scottish Review account describes a 1629 country house dinner where servants served with hats on, grace was said, and plentiful foods like pottage, kale, beef, mutton, and pies appeared. After the meal, a towel, basin, ewer, carpet, beer, water, and three boys reciting prayers accompanied the closing grace before bed.
The rabbit claims luck from its left hind foot while recounting near escape from a dog, noting the belief helped it get away as the robin queries the idea. The exchange reflects a whimsical tale excerpt from the Philadelphia Press.
A story recalls a bishop whose poor handwriting misled a young clergyman applying for a curacy. Believing the rector visited an earl daily, the man accepted a hard post. On arrival he learns the note referred to the “fall” not the earl, revealing a costly misunderstanding.
Mise Gabbell boasts sixteen chinups on a horizon bar while Misa Chillican concedes the challenge and predicts the other could chin her all day.
A Japanese young man, overwhelmed by despair, leapt into the crater of Mount Asama in Japan. He left a letter explaining the act as a path to a splendid death and a higher life above the sky.
An old and widely favored remedy. Brandreth's Pills are a purely vegetable blood purifier and laxative. They suit young and old, keeping the same dose effective over time. One or two pills nightly aid constipation and related blood impurities. sold in stores and druggists for over a century.
In a Pittsburg Press item a mother explains to her little son that the liquid in a bottle is mucilage not bay rum. The boy responds in surprise and then, after a pause, suggests that may be why he cannot remove his hat.
An advertisement for Allen's Foot-Base powder claims it cures hot sweating aching swollen feet and corns ingrowing nails and bunions. Sold at druggists and shoe stores for 250 with a free sample offer mailed to Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy NY.
A sculptor explains his door cap work as not unusual. He notes a Pink and white New York house and a door cap carved by a maker who later sold two of his finest pieces to the Metropolitan Museum last winter.
A writer for Everybody's Magazine relays a scene where Little Johnny Smith asks about bay rum in a bottle on the table. His mother explains it is mucilage. The child then speculates that this may be why he cannot remove his hat.
A fragmented note reflects a man’s thought that when women of a lodge travel to perform rites, he partly benefits by being freed from chores at home.
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