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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1901
Page
8
In a remote mountain road a wounded man paralyses his foe with a pistol held steady as he awaits Cy Grandy. The intruder arrives, a gunshot erupts, and both men collapse, dying on the roadside as a horse runs off riderless.
A dying man with gunshot wounds lies by a Kentucky road as a lone wish to kill Cy Grandy drives his resolve. He drags in a whiskey-fueled strength, clutches a pistol, and anticipates a long pursuit while a buzzard wheels overhead.
A well known Omaha youth, famed for artistic swearing, returns after a round with pockets emptied of pebbles and clods representing expletives. Friends recall his vowelled bursts as he dropped the tokens in the club house floor, the tale told on the Omaha Bee’s authority.
Mrs Edwin Knowles, new president of the Professional Women's League, dismisses suffrage as ridiculous and harmful claiming more voters would mean more trouble while conceding club life broadens women. She argues ignorant women exist on both sides and enfranchisement would not help. New York Times reports.
Cornhill Magazine recounts a humorous view of early Chinese barter from hatchets to coins. It traces a lineage from real hatchets to tin hatchets and then to small coinage, noting a mercantile instinct and an imagined invention of coinage far earlier than Lydia's electrum stators.
A New York Tribune note describes Cortlandt Street fruit stands near the Pennsylvania Railroad ferry refusing five cents worth of fruit. Vendors insist on a dime minimum, prompting a penny-pinching customer to switch to a cigar store for his nickel.
A London visitor recalls a Whitechapel dining saloon offering a half penny meal. A large brown pie filled with sheep liver onions and turnips, plus gravy, with two slices of bread and tea for another half penny. From twelve to two, east side poor dine among shoeblacks costermongers and young clerks.
A clergyman’s wife mends buttons for her boys when a visitor notes many buttons in a collection bag. She recognizes two matching buttons from her husband’s last winter suit, remarking on their familiarity. The visitor, surprised, hurries to leave as the scene unfolds.
Judge Rice of Novena is praised for punctuality and reform efforts at a Sunday school. He announces that after a few Sundays only one person is absent, praising Maggie Wynn and encouraging better attendance.
A Washington letter from Hon. Robert W. Wilcox, delegate from Hawaii and the Sand wich Islands, testifies that Peruna cured his catarrh of the stomach and dyspepsia. The piece argues catarrh causes many dyspepsia symptoms and urges readers to consult Dr Hartman if results are not prompt.
An odd collection of vintage ad copy promotes happiness from a joyous heart, Wizard Oil for pain, Mrs Winstow’s Soothing Syrup for children, Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product, Defiance Starch, and notes about temperance societies, with price hints and guarantees.
The Wabash Railway lists low round trip rates to Buffalo and New York with Chicago departures and through trains from Kansas City St Louis and Chicago. It notes many summer special rates with Niagara Falls and Buffalo stopovers and asks travelers to contact Harry E Moores Omaha and C Crane St Louis for details. The note ends with a quip about the undertaker’s income.
An old advertise boast urges readers to ask grocers for Defianch Starch the 46 ounce package priced at ten cents comparing unfavorably with other ten cent starches that offer only 12 ounces. The item ends with a morale line about facing difficulties without losing countenance.
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