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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1895
Page
7
R W Edwards of Lansingburgh, wartime survivor, describes a sunstroke ride to Washington and a long recovery. He credits Pink Pills with restoring nerves, heart strength, sleep, and circulation, noting a dramatic change from a stiff, decrepit state to renewed vigor and energy for spring work.
The duke of Hamilton's eleven year old daughter inherits a fortune of six hundred thousand dollars annually. Other notes mention American electric railroads spanning over nine thousand miles, ear piercing waning, a new lobe clasping ear ring, Nevada's sparse population with two and a half square miles per inhabitant, and a Worth County Kansas teacher keeping order with a pistol threat.
An advertisement touts No-To-Bac as a guaranteed cure for tobacco addiction with a free book offer. It claims quick, permanent cessation and cites a Drugists guarantee. The notice asks readers to contact Sterling Remedy Co. in New York City or Chicago for details.
A fragment from a 19th century ad and anecdote collection cites Miss Laura P. Brown of Dalton Georgia praising McElree s Wine of Cardui as life saving for excessive menses and menstrual irregularities while interspersed with unrelated dialogue about language and fashion.
A collage of quips and verse from Our Wit and Humor features flirtatious missives about October eyes and a poetic confession, a streetcar chatty anecdote challenging a winter prophet, and a family scene where a daughter resists acting on stage amid paternal forgiveness.
A story from the Argonaut recalls a Alabama delegation member who went to Washington to secure an appropriation for Mobile’s harbor. In a poker game with a senator his funds dwindled until he declared his aim to be obtaining funds, not making payments, exposing a mix up between purpose and activity.
Immense crowd packs a theater lobby as a stout blonde threatens to faint. Women scream for space while men scramble to help. A bold quip prompts laughs and a comic scene ends with no salts needed. Officer jokes follow as chaos settles and the scene ends in lighthearted confusion.
Congregation hears organ groans as bellows give out and the pastor notes the organist has failed at a vital moment. He urges the congregation to rise and sing Praise God, from whom all blessings flow, prompting reader curiosity about the pastor’s meaning. A separate item mentions Lumleigh and a boast about Phether Waite as a drummer for a bicycle company.
Dialog shows Mrs Nelehberly asking what will be made of her son and Mrs Fondmother replying they aim for a great piano player. The mother notes the boy has not started lessons yet, while his hair is being grown as part of the plan.
In a Washington Star item a man returning from a masquerade jokes about taking a Turkish bath. Mrs Binkle wakes to a barking dog and threats to call the police. He explains he spent the night “as Turk” at the masquerade and laments life’s lack of fun. The tale ends with a sigh about shy fish and eager mosquitoes.
A veteran reporter and a novice editor finish a lecture report with a doctored sentence. The line Friends, I will detain you but a few moments longer appears amid applause as the publication is prepared.
Excerpts and witticisms from Detroit Tribune pieces and quotations. A girl seeks to “save lives” by nursing or fixing a bicycle fender. Various aphorisms on business, manners, and farming appear with brief editorially stirring lines.
A compact 1920s style miscellany blends aphorisms from Carlyle Goethe and Shakespeare with advertisements for Patented tonics and patent medicines. It promotes Stomach Bitters Fos Pension and Piso Cure for Consumption while noting political quips about reporters and the wheelwoman. Local testimonials claim health benefits and child teething remedies.
A comic ad style notice urges readers to avoid corn pain with Hindercorns 15c at druggists and boasts of Hall's Catarrh Cure via Conductor E D Loomis of Detroit. It includes diet tips to eat fruits and vegetables, a cooling bath with ammoniated water, and a pineapple lemon ice recommendation.
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