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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
7
On his eighty fourth birthday Paul Smith recalls a boundary dispute with Jones in Malone. He describes sitting with witnesses as Jones enters the courtroom and asserts the witnesses are his. Jones concedes the win, saying he has had them witnesses twice himself.
In Atchison Kansas Miss Elsie Nielson describes years of facial pimples and redness. After four months of using Cuticura Ointment followed by Cuticura Soap she reports clear skin and continues to use the products. Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold worldwide with free samples and the 92 page Skin Book available by request.
The remarks compare Stoogins' floor movements to a camel and note few people love their job enough to refuse a better one. The playful quote underscores the lighthearted tone of the sports or social item.
Auburn New York woman describes decade of nervous pains and organic illness. After four months on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports relief. Another note from St. Cloud Minnesota praises her daughter who used the remedy and recovered, urging others to try it.
Walter A. Brenstrum of Brooklyn reports dramatic skin improvement from using Resinol Soap and Resinol Ointment after a pimples outbreak, noting swelling and inflammation reduced within a week and complete clearing after about a month. He endorses the products and offers a free sample through Resinol in Baltimore, Md.
North Platte valley ranchers recount a century-spanning tale linking John Jacob Astor to the old fur trading post near present-day Wyoming. The chain starts with 1512 Astor traders, then William H. Force’s Wyoming purchase, Kate Talmadge’s visit and marriage, and Madeline Force birth, leading to the potential return of the site to the Astor descendant. The 1812 1813 era fur trade legacy is noted with W Price Hunt and the American Fur Company.
The narrative recalls early commerce along the Platte and Missouri rivers, noting Bruce Husband's 1830s post near the 1813 site and a yearly buffalo hide shipment worth 47,000 to St Louis. It traces Astor activity fading by 1850 and a later revival linked to Union Pacific leadership, plus 1883 western land purchases by William H Force and partners near the old trading posts including the d Ab ford site, with Arbuckle connections.
Western ranchers say the books show ownership of 6000 brood mares at the P. O. ranch. Manager Mr Force, long based in the east, retains ownership of the P. O. ranch, likely to pass to Force’s grandson, the posthumous son of John Jacob Astor who perished in the Titanic. The ranch includes the site of Astor’s first trading post in the trans-Mississippi region.
A mailed hoax offers a sample demijohn of a liquor brand with discounts to M B Chisholm at 42 Maple Street Canajoharie N Y. Chisholm replies with outrage and burns the letter, signed by Miss Mary B Chisholm president Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
A farmer near Toulouse presented to the Bank of France torn fragments of ten twenty dollar notes eaten by a goat. The farmer had previously laid his coat on the ground and found the goat had access to his pocketbook. He had the goat killed and recovered the note fragments.
About 200 members of the University club hosted visiting alumni from Lafayette College Wiscon sin University University of Maine and Hobart college at a reception on Lafayette Avenue and South Oxford Street President Edward Ward McMahon gave a brief welcome The program featured 83 illustrated reptile lectures by Raymond Lee Ditmars curator of reptiles at the New York Zoological Park He discussed snakes and lizards noting their misrepresented traits and demonstrated specimens including a Gila monster a glass snake an infant boa constrictor and a milk snake highlighting their economic value in controlling mice and pests.
A Chicago physician offers fifteen months of board lodging and the ultimate prize of parenthood to a normal couple who place themselves under his control. He claims to create a perfectly formed, eternally knowledgeable child weighing fourteen pounds with teeth and eyes, devoid of faults, destined to reproduce every 600 years. He pledges sixty thousand dollars and plans to alter the course of theosophy, detailing a grand architectural approach to the experiment. The couple must follow strict rules. the doctor is married and childless.
After X ray tests at the University of Pennsylvania Frederick Steiner aged 42 of Camden reports displacement of the heart four inches to the right of the breast bone. A second Camden case involved Edgar Morill aged 63 of Fogarty Avenue. Doctors say with care and courage a cure may be possible in both cases.
A fifty pound wildcat was slain by three small terrier dogs on a ranch in Haywards Valle Vista district. The cat raided chickens. a rancher's son spotted it and chased it up a tree, then stones forced the animal to drop. One terrier was badly torn in the ensuing fight.
James A. Robinson of Hilleville Pa in a frigid state after escaping his house in a nightshirt during the Black Hand feud. He had been waylaid several times and winded, and was saved by a passerby near his home.
In Herne Switzerland the Schweiz canton reports a family of 11 brothers and sisters with a combined age total of 74 years. The article notes the large household and outlines the age spread among the members.
The piece extols letter writing as the best method to truly know a friend or sweetheart. It argues that distance fosters honesty, reveals hidden traits, and prompts clearer self expression than face to face talk. A long, full correspondence is needed to understand the beloved.
The slice imagines a century past with fears of Europe entering a disastrous war and critiques of Washington's government. It notes Hetty Green's lack of savings, Indiana's few successful authors, rising inequality, and aging locals claiming a worsened climate since their boyhood, while English writers neglect US impressions.
A renowned lawyer, famed for wit and a bald pate, visits a barber. The barber taps the shiny skull and jokes that the customer needs a shine rather than a haircut, delivering a lighthearted gag.
The text notes that average alcoholic use is about 22 gallons per person yearly, with 21 gallons in beer. It also implies brewing activity accompanies temperance talk by saloon keepers, hinting at social tensions around drinking.
A newspaper correspondent recalls President Wilson in Trenton during the inauguration period. He notes prior cabinet rumor fakes and Wilson's quip about the public craving facts, remarking that the truth may have to suffice with news.
In Wooden Leg a war veteran limped into a drugstore and asked for medicine. When asked what kind, he replied he didn’t know. The druggist asked where the difficulty lay. The veteran said the seal of his difficulty was in his wooden leg which is getting worm-eaten.
A spectator cites a performer named Hawking, calling him a dancer who performs as a French man in a cabaret. The exchange notes the artist’s prior respect yet pokes fun at the dancer’s self importance and private life identity.
A playful piece notes a widow pursuing a bachelor, with a quip about Prudence Marcus having a past at sixty nine. The author observes social chase scenes and hints at wit and gossip surrounding dating norms.
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