Witty quotes and fashion notes from a bygone issue
An assortment of humorous quips and social notes appears, including a joke about connoisseurs of happiness and a playful exchange about composing. The column also reports on church fashion changes at St Francis Me Sales Cathedral with Spanish lace teaddresses replacing hats, prompted by Rev. Lr G Connor to the Allar society.
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St. Francis Me Sales
Churea
Lr G.connor
Allar Society
Dr O'Connor
Cluyewad
When to Call the Doctor for Throat and Belly Trouble
A medical authority warns that sudden sore throat may be diphtheria and intestinal symptoms could signal peritonitis or appendicitis. Call the doctor at once to avoid wasted time waiting for fever or other signs.
Coffee Quitters Find Health With Postum Cure
Woman from Apple Creek details severe heart trouble nervous prostration and insomnia tied to coffee use. After switching to Postum she reports energy return, no medicines, ability to do housework, and sister’s health improvement. Source touts Postum as the cause of health turnaround.
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Cofee
Apple Creek
Cofes
Iso
Moyself
Dadow
Tima
Cline
Dan Blair's Fortunes Stir London Love Triangle
Dan Blair 22 of Bin'r town Mont travels to England with Lady Galorey's courtesy widened to Lord Galorey. He woos Lily, Duchess of Hregkewater, a beauty drawn by his fortune. A past memory with a church scene resurfaces as intrigue thickens around royal suitors and hidden identities.
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Dan Blair
Bin'r Town
Mont
Engikin
Lady Galorey
Dan
Lord Galorey
Hig Vialy
United States
Lily
Hregkewater
Whdow
Dan Trent
London
Letty Lane
Abe
Egvort
Londy
Peppe
Dramatic Confrontation Between Dan and Letty Lane
In a bustling theater dressing room Dan Blair, engaged to the Duchess of Breakwater, pleads to help Letty Lane. She asserts independence, refuses his charity, and warns him to stop visiting daily as public scrutiny swirls around their tangled romance. The scene ends with a tense promise to continue.
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Hera Wiggins
Indy
Dan
Higgins
Letty Lane
Yhle
Higgins Kappa
Abe
Duchess of
Breakwater
Miss Lane
Dan Blur
London
Poniatowsky
Latty Lane
Theo
Blair
Cieee Lim
Sit
Felati
Pele
Nstate
Aubily Ee
Mr. Blair
Brittany wedding custom of batting the bride at the ear
A traveler notes a Brittany tradition after a wedding in which the groom taps the bride on the ear and quips This is how it feels when you vex me then kisses her and adds thus when you w*at me well The quirky act supposedly signals playful reproach between spouses.
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Brittany
New Efficiency Plan Urged for Government Service
A presidential message endorses a commission on efficiency calling for vast reforms. It urges placing local officers in classified service, consolidating treasury auditors, standardizing travel costs, and shifting revenue cutter service vessels to the lighthouse service to cut costs and boost efficiency. The plan aims to save millions annually and requires legislation by July 1, 1913.
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Washington
Congress
Seasury
Post
Amce
Justice
Interior
Commerce
Sebor
Pine Ng
Internal Revenue and Customs
Lighthence Establishment
Icela
Treasury
Aix
Treasury Department
Painless Death Excerpt Sparks Grim Quip
A speadthrife proclaims a deadly boast about a tailor. A friend retorts that paying the owed money could cause the man to die from shock. The exchange underscores a tense, cynical mood captured in the Bits.
Sayos Hla Penclis conversation quirk noted
A short dialogue notes surprise at a claim of three children and a peculiar detail about a pocket Ipad gen. el in his pocket.
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Sayos Hla Penclis
His Preference and a Widow’s Marriage Quip
A distinguished eye surgeon recalls hospital days with three fledgling oculists debating eye colors blue brown hazel and gray. The fourth interrupts with a jokey line about preferring sore eyes. The piece closes with a wry saying that a widow choosing a bachelor might escape by dying.
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Oculista
Hell
War, nerves, and prophecy in a fragmented era
A fragmented passage mentions a commanding intellect, references Schiller and Garibaldi, and muses that war is not heavenly while asserting that the world will outgrow conflict. It notes dyspepsia, bravado, and a cynical view of battles won or lost, with odd dental imagery as a metaphor for nerves.
Nervous Despondent Women Seek Help From Lydia E Pinkham
Woman reports relief from nerves and backache after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Letter cites Mrs Many Halstead of Platea Pennsylvania and Mrs Amelia Dahl of Walcott North Dakota as prior cases. The ad invites other suffering women to write for confidential advice to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.
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Platea
Lydia E. Pinkhem
Many Halstead
Lydia
Pinkham
Walcott
N. Dakota
Lydia E. Pinkham
Amelia Dahl
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mary
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