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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1908
Page
9
Dialog recounts a society mansion with tall white columns and a neighboring shanty home to Horatius Preston. It notes Trashleigh’s million-dollar take from glossy books and portrays Preston as a minor, frugal competitor.
A fragmentary newspaper slice presents mixed lines about money in automobiles and football, dismissive sports looks, and quotations from Chicago Daily News and Washington Star. It includes a London Paris Berlin Rome boast and a heckler taunt about Main Street, plus a joke about geysers and spring water.
A collage of quips and anecdotes from various sources including Washington Bhar and Puck, with chatter about life schemes, candles, circuses, and romance. Jests touch on work, trials, insurance, and the foibles of social talk, ending with a note on harmony and destruction methods.
New York iron worker Gennia Morris clung to a rope after a pigeon scare caused him to lose grip and fall from a 125 foot high tower on the Manhattan bridge construction. Crane operators swung him back to safety as workers nearby guided him to the base, where he resumed work. Pigeons have since filled the hollow steel structure, seen as a nuisance by ironworkers.
William and Arthur Quick, long separated since 1860, have learned they live within miles of each other in Putnam County after being sent to different homes as children. A sister was placed with a family near Sidney. Efforts continue to locate her as a joyous reunion follows seven decades apart.
In Athol Massachusetts Mrs James Hibbard used an unusual method to enforce morning bed making. After her husband demanded late cleaning she tied him to the kitchen door and strapped his hands and feet. Neighbors summoned police after hours of delay, and six officers removed him from the scene.
Borax is advertised as a harmless, economical cleaner and disinfectant for sinks and drains. The ad claims it prevents epidemics from unclean conditions, purifies water, cleans dishes, whitens fabrics, softens water, removes dandruff, and sterilizes baby bottles. Mothers are urged to send names and address with two one pound cartons plus 5c for a color booklet.
A collage of quotations and early 20th century advertisements appears, mentioning Alb Loat and David Belasco discussions, theatrical talk about Love's Labour Lost, and claims for Defiance Starch, Brown's Bronchial Troches, Pazo Dental Paste, Garfield Tea, Lewis Single Binder cigars, Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and Beecham? Campbell. The prose mirrors a period ad page with scattered literary snippets and product pitches.
A quirky dialogue sketches romantic hurts and social pretenses. A rejected suitor admits he never drinks, smokes, gambles, or swears while a witty girl teases him. A scene shifts to laundry advice praising Defance Starch and a flirtatious chandelier remark ends with a joke about genuineness.
The Well-Informed demand a simple pleasant laxative of known value. The California Fig Syrup Co offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as an ethical, gentle yet prompt remedy. Buy only the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product, sold by all leading druggists for fifty cents per bottle.
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