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Newspaper
Mansfield Press
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
3
A rural digest urges careful feeding clean water and shelter for hogs sheep and cattle. Notes on apples corn shows milk safety and tool care. Promotes early colt handling, winter quarters, and seasonal market timing for farming success.
A Winnipee Free Press correspondent reports Pincher Creek in Southern Alberta as the original home of fall wheat with 25 years of strong yields. Common yields reach forty bushels per acre, with many fields at 50 to 60 and above. The district also prospers in oats, barley, stock and dairying, with a ready market in mining towns and British Columbia. The Canadian government agent offers information on land regulations for 160 acres plus 160 home stead at $2.00 per acre and rail extensions.
A humor filled exchange notes a new auto’s hill climbing limits while praising its novelty. The text shifts to home laundering and the role of starch, urging Defiance Starch for stronger stiffening without thickening fabrics and better appearance.
A playful exchange notes how eye color hints at character. The speaker cites stony cold eyes as indicating a hard nature while blue eyes on a cheerful girl imply gentleness, and cross eyed delightfully marks amiable friends.
The Well Informed World favors a simple pleasant and efficient liquid laxative. California Fig Syrup Co offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a wholesome gentle prompt remedy, trusted by physicians for family use. Buy genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product from leading druggists, price fifty cents per bottle.
A reader wonders if the piece belongs here noting an address in distinct and asking whether a new tire for the auto or a new hat for the missus is the correct item. The inquiry reflects everyday domestic concerns and mailing nuances.
A pastor who wed a woman with a $10,000 dowry briefly preached then hesitated during a hymn. He stopped after the first verse and announced the choir would omit the fifth. Congregants read the omitted verse themselves and smiled at the line about boundless grace and hope for more.
A French provincial visitor in Paris blamed a barber for hair loss after using two bottles meant to make hair grow. The barber replies with confusion as the man insists he will drink another bottle, but only as a last resort. The note comes from a Philadelphia Inquirer item.
Fragmentary ad claims a cure for catarrh by internal administration, lists F J Cheney and Co Toledo as trusted agents, and promises testimonials free with a 1 cent price. urges readers to purchase Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
A Houston Post dialogue excerpt shows a pair discussing a marriage proposal. One says the father has been unusually kind since the request, while the other suspects the father’s amusement hides disapproval. The exchange hints at tensions between affection and parental consent within a matchmaking arc.
A 25 year old patent starch is claimed to be inferior to modern versions. The Defiance Starch line is said to omit injurious chemicals and include a new ingredient that adds strength and smoothness unseen in other brands.
A brief, humorous exchange shows Elia accusing someone of slipping on a foot while Stella retorts about ashes. The snippet reads like conversational theater with playful banter and a domestic mood, reflecting light social friction.
Important to Mothers warns caregivers to examine every bottle of Castoria for infants and children ensuring the product is safe and proper, emphasizing diligence in checking packaging and labels for trustworthy remedies.
Witnesses report a heated exchange as a youth used shocking language during a recent event, drawing strong reactions from onlookers and prompting discussions on conduct and decorum.
A short anecdote mocks Andrew Thomas as a careless debtor who owed money and borrowed items and denied them with dignity. The piece includes a moral echo about restraint, while a string of unrelated ad-like lines promotes household starch, eye salve, spanking, Blue, cigars, and child care remedies from various brands.
A succinct moral noting that true politeness bestows a good name and fills any lack of reputation. The quote emphasizes cultivating courteous conduct as the superior life plan. Horton is attributed as the source.
A quirky ad urges readers to ask their grocer for a large 2 oz package priced at 5 cents. It jokes that a truthful man must tell a lie big enough to attract attention, mentioning Peona Illinois and a punchline about a man being short with a long face.
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