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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1914
Page
5
Private Jones delays a visit after learning Corporal Jenkins married and had a son. On the way he meets Sergeant Brown who asks where he goes. Jones jokes he will visit the newborn, only to be told the barrel is out and the luck is gone.
A quirky collection of misprinted phrases and humorous snippets. The piece wanders from patent powders for feet to whimsical musings on Solomon and a Mona Lisa smile. It mocks social pretensions and entertainment costs, reflecting a playful, satirical New York mood.
Mr. Meeklen describes an awkward domestic moment as he attempted an apology. He says his wife kept replying with compliments and salutes, turning a simple exchange into a formal back-and-forth. The exchange highlights humorous friction in communication.
Grace, a country girl, returns home for holidays as her mother hosts a reception in her honor. She proudly shows fashionable gowns and jokes that one dress came from a poor, insignificant worm, prompting her father to quip that he is that worm.
A reader shares that quitting coffee or tea, which contain caffeine, cured eye strain and heart trouble in her family. A husband avoided glasses after using Postum three years, and she reports improved health for herself and son. Postum Co promotes Regular and Instant Postum with pricing and preparation notes.
Ensign Jonmwph Hayward travels toward Fort Harmar where he encounters Simon Girty and Rene D Awdray amid rising tensions with northwest Indian nations. A dangerous mission to Sandusky unfolds as Hayward, with a mysterious prisoner and a half blood Wyandot preacher, confronts peril, betrayal, and a tense escape from a hostile cabin tunnel where a lurking figure stirs in the dark.
A fragment from a memoir describes a tense moment underground where a speaker remains poised in darkness, considering options as breath fails and death seems imminent, before making a quick, decisive move. The terse scene conveys fear, resolve, and imminent danger in a confined space.
In a perilous chase through a shadowed tunnel, the narrator grapples with a white man in disguise and a wary unseen assailant. A sudden flash reveals a negro attacker, who badly wounds the narrator before crashing his own head against a hardwood slab and dying. The tense encounter ends with the assailant's collapse and the tunnel's grim quiet.
Dramatic accounts describe lightning stripping people of their clothes, with a 1808 incident in which a woman died and two girls were torn nearly naked, and a 1868 Croix windmill case where a miller's assistant was split in two. Further tales note shocking effects on cattle and unusual poststrike injuries.
The anecdote recounts Matthew Arnold as a school examiner who marked a class of girl pupil-teachers with the same “excellent” grade. One inspector objects that some could be better, while Arnold replies that they are all such very nice girls.
In a smoky cellar escape, the narrator pulls a wounded British officer to safety and contemplates the riders of war. A chance meeting with a white soldier in the cave leads to tense dialogue about Girty Hamilton and Wa pa teetah as martial tensions rise in the northwest frontier.
A letter from a man asking for a loan to replace a horse, home, and wife, claiming to be penniless and homeless. He pledges repayment with interest and urges a large loan to speed recovery, addressed to a local Heaton philanthropist.
An old home remedy advises gentle application of Cuticura Ointment to affected areas without rubbing, washing off after five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Regular use of Cuticura Soap is recommended to prevent inflammation and clogged pores. Free samples and a 32 page Skin Book offered by Cuticura, Boston.
A playful Louisville Courier Journal quote recalls life before wireless light and the telephone, asking how society managed without the tango. The remark is framed as a light society aside and contrasts old comforts with a dance craze.
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