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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1894
Page
7
A person describes visiting a clairvoyant who guided her to recover a stolen husband’s overcoat. The article swerves into an ad for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters promising nerve relief and health gains. It also mentions winter wheat yields and a quip about a policeman father amid jokes and notes.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative improving health and comfort. It claims gentle cleansing of kidneys liver and bowels without weakness, praises its pleasant taste and broad medical approval, and notes $1 bottles sold by druggists and manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
Betsy Baker’s birthday picnic at Uncle Jim’s farm unfolds with a riverine misadventure as Betsy and friends race a drifting skiff aided by two brave collie dogs. Dan the dog retrieves the line and saves the children before rescue by Uncle Jim and helpers. A companion feature describes a needle-case crafted by a girl without sewing and a clock on Lord Armstrong’s estate that rings bells for worktimes and holidays.
A fragment from Texas Siftings presents a comic exchange between Tommy and Mrs Yerger-Tommy. The boy offers jam while claiming to access the pantry with a transom trick, foreshadowed by a statement about waiting for his father.
A miscellany of social anecdotes from Frances-Elise and Adele-Ive, touching engagements to a baseball pitcher, funerary birds in bonnets, a church pew pin damages award in Kentucky, jokes about aging spouses, gloves for cabinet wives, gum chewing statistics, a Scotland jewel swap, long-married heroes Mr and Mrs Tolman of Rockland Maine, and Mrs Tolmans bear-built muff and boa from Thomaston bears.
A guide on ladies cards noting they should be nearly square and white, with married women using Mrs. before their name and including the husband’s full name. Addresses appear in the lower left, engraving in plain script, and daughters gain separate cards only after one or two seasons, with their mother involved early on.
An odd ad copy for Hall's Catarrh Cure touts internal use and a 75 cent price. The text repeats the claim and includes an offhand stage remark about a poet and a humorous exchange between a woman and her friend, ending with a quip about beauty and nonsense.
An OCR fragment mixes dialogue about engagement and breakups with a clutter of brand names and poetic phrases. It includes references to Karl's Clover Root Tea and Rosmae Magic, with a casual exchange about propriety and dress. The text is garbled and non coherent.
A San Francisco sign offers talking parrots monkeys and dogs at a bird and animal store. In Chicago 1100 patrons at a world fair fortune teller included women. The pillory lineage ends in 1937 in England. A New York linguist reports hearing ten tongues on Brooklyn Bridge. Joe Resoule aged 20 performs feats of strength bending a horseshoe.
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