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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
4
By Hilton R. Greer nostalgic verse recalls boyhood evenings with Mary by the lilacs in the lane. the speaker wanders through twilight memories of summers past, music and fragrance, and a lingering sense of love and youth amid Evening light and June.
A rusting musket recalls a young officer Ned and his beloved Nannie in a Civil War farewell. Meredith, jealous and cruel, plots to win Nan as Ned falls in battle. The narrator, Ned's gun, narrates his master’s farewell, pursuit, and final hours in hospital.
A war era tale centers on a general, his wife Nan, and a decayed past. Meredith dies after a failed bid for Nan, and the general vows a grand heart shaped emblem for Merediths grave. Nan places violets on a private mound, honoring a tragic romance and memory.
The Brinten Swiss muslins divide favor with or gandies as a season’s dressy fabrics. Plain grounds are noted as particularly stylish while scroll patterns feature roses on one side for skirt borders. Embroidered lawns and light cotton ceilings bear the poetic Lalla Rookhs name, with new applique lace trimming massing on coarse cream net.
The New York Ledger Monthly notes vaccination origins: Dr Waterhouse introduced vaccination to the United States in 1800. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu popularized inoculation in England from Turkey in 1721 after her son’s success in Adrianople in 1718. Dr Jenner introduced variolation to England in 1709 and received Parliament’s ten thousand pound reward.
The czar of Russia inherits from his mother the Danish traits of opposition to animal suffering in sport and states that a boy who robs a bird or tortures a cat or dog should be punished by law in Russia as in Denmark.
Attleboro resident Georges St John Sheffield of the family that endowed Yale University’s Sheffield Scientific School will donate a fifty acre parcel for park purposes in Attleboro.
The Southern Pacific offers three return routes for summer travel to California via St. Paul Minneapolis Portland or via Denver Salt Lake Ogden and the Ogden Overland Route or via New Orleans Houston San Antonio and El Paso Sunset Route. Tickets Go on sale July 6 to 13 and valid for return until August 31 reading via any route and returning via another. Also includes various small ads for products and a Yellowstone folder promotion.
An old advertisement lists Detianch Starch at 10 cents for a 16 oz package and promotes various rail travel fares and dates. It mentions multiple city sales, seasonal rates, and contact details for O and St. L. City Office in Omaha, with names like Harry Moores and A.3 Bandy. The piece blends product pricing with travel promotions and a shopkeeper motto.
The notice advertises an extended Yellowstone Park itinerary with private coaches, Pullman sleeping and dining cars, escorted by the American Tourist Association led by Beau Campbell, Chicago address, and tours to Colorado and Alaska. Tickets cover all expenses, train leaves Chicago July 9 at 10 p.m. Includes broad promotional text from the Philadelphia Record.
Missouri Pacific Railway announces double daily service from St. Louis and Kansas City to Colorado Utah and Pacific coast. Trains depart St. Louis at 9:00 am and 10:10 pm Kansas City at 6:00 pm and 10:00 am with through sleeping cars to St. Louis San Francisco. Excursion tickets on sale. For details contact H C Townsend G P F T Agent St Louis Mo.
An advertisement asserts Piso a Cure for Consumption as an infallible medicine for coughs and colds from N W Samuel Ocean Grove dated February 17 1900. It contrasts weatherwise and others and promotes Defiance 10 cent starch, urging readers to ask a druggist or grocer.
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