25 Dec 1908
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Newspaper
Mansfield Press
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
1
Local items detail visitors and moves through Antrim, Macomb, and nearby towns. Notices include fence and wire sales, barber shop updates, farm loan offers, livestock shipments, and travelers like Freeman Miller Reynolds and Johnson families visiting relatives across Missouri and Oklahoma. A safe at Glenn's store was blown, with arrests anticipated.
A vintage drug ad claims the bowels can be trained and promotes Candy Cathartic tablets stamped C C C for gentle relief. Sold in druggists for 10 cents, not in bulk.
An article notes that baseball is becoming very popular in Vienna and may rival tennis. It highlights its appeal to women, mentioning an Englishman named Hill who promoted the change in the 1820s and describes baseball as increasingly seen as a national pastime in America.
A humorous discussion outlines many compensations for short stature. It notes how a short man reaches to greet a lady, finds dropped dimes, slips through a letter box latch, and survives combined ailments that would strike others separately.
A medical note reports Dr. Louis Kolipineski treating persistent hiccoughs by pressing the tongue with a spoon handle to relax palatal muscles. The patient’s four day hiccough episode ceased after the tongue manipulation and self-application stopped when hiccoughs returned.
The Delineator questions why public schools struggle and points to teacher wages as the core issue. It argues that pay below skilled labor levels drives unmotivated workers away, harming education and future citizens, urging boards to raise salaries to attract capable teachers.
The cow Liat pays the mortgage and the dual purpose beauty that toils on the hill. She feeds the little ones with milk butter cream and cheese and keeps them clothed in winter. Her milk days end with market day when she is sent to market. The housewife sings her praise and the farmer earns praise for the cow that pays. Source: Prairie Farmer.
Residents of Wilmington Delaware were awakened by a continuous whistle scream for over an hour. The next day officials learned a locomotive whistle valve in the railroad yard had jammed and the engineer could not release it until steam pressure dropped after the fire in the poles coal.
An old fashioned drug advertisement touts Vascarets Candy Catharine promising a lively liver pure blood clean skin and bright eyes. Genuine tablets stamped C C C available in bulk and at all druggists for 10 cents.
A Ruralist article urges farmers with limited land to raise pure bred poultry. It argues small farms can lead in the world market as rural mail improves, recommending Leghorns for eggs and Plymoth Rock Wyandottes and Langshans for meat, plus turkeys Bronze and White Holland. Ducks and geese are noted less desirable but a farm should keep a mix for eventual profit. Leopold Fessler signs as Ruralist.
A firm of English solicitors wrote to the University of Idaho president offering to purchase an Ll. D. degree for a young client seeking Parliament. The university replied caustically that the principal they represent has aristocratic pretensions and that a cad's actions, unless limited, are unimpeachable.
A trade note explains readers per 1000 sulariber and handbill reach, noting costly impact and higher engagement when using a newspaper. It claims readers span women and girls and half the men, with a merchant using papers gaining 3,500 additional readers per 1000, and that each dollar of advertising can yield up to 20 dollars in business.
Salem Sepublican notes odd hunting misadventures with Uryan hunted in Mexico and Teddy in Africa. A possum scratch and a monkey bark spice a quirky regional yarn about chase, misfortune, and local humor amid rough sports chatter.
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