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Newspaper
Mansfield Press
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1909
Page
1
Local items note Oscar Coday staying at home due to severe cold, sales pitches for Burn Bupion oil and Bupton family safety oil, and Dr Shoop’s pink tablets advertised. The piece covers a broken bank safe incident near Seymour, theater and opera house promotions, play reviews, and numerous local visits, lectures, and business updates from Mansfield and surrounding towns.
The article recounts Robert Raikes initiating the first Sunday school in 1789 in Gloucester England with ragged boys and a poor teacher paid by Mrs Brandon. It notes rapid spread to 850,000 pupils in four years and later describes Sunday school growth, the Sunday-school Union led by E P Bancroft, and related missionary activity and finances.
In Salem Massachusetts a smooth faced man named Betrosky tried to withdraw $100 using a depositing card that read red whiskers. The group produced bystanders including ex Mayor Hurley and five children to verify identity as the whiskers were lost in hospital after a fight.
An OCR advertorial promotes Dr Shoop Restorative for weak stomach or organs. It claims the remedy targets nervous control without drugs, promising improvement in 3 to 10 days. Sold by HL Cuday and emphasizes low cost and rapid effect.
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