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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
3
Jumbled reminiscences touch on Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII with stray lines about an automobile roller skating misadventure. The passage hints at historians and a famous ball player tied to Chicago newspaper sport sections and the lingering presence of a past figure in print.
At the Authors' Club Christmas dinner in London, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tells a winter tale about Americans and stockings. A man without stockings hangs his trousers and jokes that he has received a man when his pants disappear by morning.
Old tin is repurposed into trunks and various utensils by flattening and smoothing cut pieces. Across the country, businesses remove tin coatings from discarded cans and scrap tin to supply these craft and re use activities.
Women attend signals at small stations for about six daily trains while rail firms cut costs by hiring female labor. The husband is seen working on hillside vines as the wife guards the fire and keeps children calm.
An eminent physician and his wife clash over a remark about a counterpane in a humorous exchange. Uncle Ab len Sparks quips that Senator La Follette overlooked Mrs Hetty Green among the money controllers, adding a political jab to the dialogue.
A collage of dialogue and jokes shows a teacher calling on Freddy Fangle to name the Danube in German, with Donna confirming, plus a pun laden exchange about a best seller and a quotes from the Kansas City Times and a child’s misheard water bill gag.
The famed pianist Hans von Bulow is said to have joined a regimental street procession in Vienna and applauded a young drummer amid cheers. He praised the rhythm and bowing, then thanked the drummer, claiming the experience refreshed his nerves.
Chicago social worker Miss Jane Addams tours the East delivering speeches urging America to value immigrants. She warns that indifference costs the nation the contributions of foreign populations and their communities.
The speaker laments the lack of native American art in absorbing immigrants and argues twenty-five years of contact with foreign colonies and granting them citizenship would yield surprising results. She asks if we are not foolish to refuse this realization.
A Brooklyn wife suspects her husband drinks wine and tests him by reading a list of difficult words. He mispronounces most of them, revealing her suspicions. The scene ends with the wife sobbing over the results, as reported by the New York Tribune.
A historical account explains the sun's surface temperature as about 18 000 degrees Fahrenheit and 80 to 90 times boiling water. It notes artificial limits, extreme grit emission, and a glow far surpassing Beasemer converter sparks and an exhydrogen flame by hundreds of times.
The Yonkers Statesman notes a local quirk as a reader cites a cat that fears water but laps up milk brought by the milkman. The item hints at household humor and urban life in Yonkers.
A Portland Oregonian item highlights Carrie a conscientious telephone operator nicknamed central for her sweet tone who earned her own cottage by consistent good service and calm temper.
A fragment from Out of the Dim Pact notes Samuel Woodworth's doubt about The Old Oaken Bucket's value yet hints posterity found value. Mentions Henry Hudson memorial bridge planned as a vast concrete span 708 feet clear and references Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup for teething children in a scattered ad-like passage.
A speaker’s dull remarks prompt Uncle Allen Aparke to liken some men to an old water mill that runs without producing anything, their wheels turning but yielding no grist.
A critic argues that some women fixate on keeping a house in perfect form and order, sacrificing the comfort the home was meant to provide for its inhabitants. The piece elevates practical comfort over rigid routines.
The advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease by acting internally on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers one hundred dollars for failures to cure and invites readers to send for testimonials while promoting Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A dialogue between Alming and Kidder features a woman's club aimed at suffrage versus focusing on other goals. Miss Strong argues for sole focus on suffrage, while Mr. Kidder contends broad aims may better advance the cause. The exchange highlights strategic disagreements in reform circles.
A garbled OCR fragment recounts random phrases and quotes about hair, a joke on a husband and coat sleeve, plus a mock ad and a college play remark. It mentions John in a Greek play and Sophocles as a faded reference, all from a Meveland Plain Dealer style snippet.
Mrs Hardapple laments Hiram's college life is not as pleasant as expected. Mr Hardapple jokes he sees him writing affectionate letters for tens of dollars while he greases his boots.
A mistress objects to Norah hosting a shabby looking visitor, urging police presence at the kitchen door. Norah defends the man as a plain policemen, stating he is all right and part of her clothes.
A Chicago Tribune snippet records a terse exchange about money expectations and timing. The dialogue frames a friction between Dinguss and Shadbolt over prior requests and ongoing expectations in a terse, conversational tone.
Letters from readers in Missouri Iowa and Michigan attest to Peruna's health benefits. Davis reports thirty seven years of ill health improved after twelve bottles. Peterson credits Peruna with immediate relief from confinement and restoration after five bottles. Precoerer says catarrh of the stomach and past typhoid left him weak but Peruna cured his stomach troubles after three to four bottles. Manufactured by the Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company Columbus Ohio.
A Philadelphia Press item notes lightning in South Africa may strike ironstone beds and cause blue flames that sometimes set buildings ablaze hours after a storm. It includes a comic exchange about a forgetful wife as a lighter aside.
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