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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1899
Page
4
The passage notes rational love letters implying prior punishment for love. It claims music soothes nerves but fastest cure is a stronger nervous system, praising Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and insisting on proper revenue stamps on bottles. It ends with a wary remark about half of what men say starting with there ought to be a law.
A collage of old patent medicine pitches and humorous quips includes Faultless Starch dominance claims, Wall’s Catarrh Cure, Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restore offer, Cascarrets Candy Cathartic, Mrs Winston's Soothing Syrup for teething, Fixbury's Ear Salve, and J P Hayter of Decatur Texas selling drugstore wares with no cure no pay.
A Pittsburg man is fined for eating peanuts on a street car. Mrs Samuel Bennett of Tanner West Virginia gave birth to her twenty ninth child all alive. A Spokane cross bill accuses her of hair and whisker pulling. Lady Florence Dixie claims three women disguised as men. Vice President Stevenson prefers cable cars to a carriage. An Oswego New York woman kills stray cats with chloroform and New York humane society backs it. Brooklyn has two women in skilled trades. Adams homestead in Quincy Massachusetts now hosts boarders from Sicily. James Clunan of Mancock New York cuts his throat during delirium tremens. A Scottish clergyman favors wind instruments for church music. A wife tells her husband to kiss her for dinner. A Boston printing office headlines wedding invitations with humor about hard times.
This piece presents Josh Billings style aphorisms on human nature and common sense. It muses on sincerity, love, risk, aging, vanity, and the quirks of men and women with humorous bluntness. The voice blends satire with rustic wisdom and paradoxes about reason and instinct.
A collage of humorous repartee and sketches featuring conversations about engagement rings fashion rheumatism cures vanity and local anecdotes. Included are quips about marriage age clothes mirrors and a rector’s tale about Mr Jones’s lack of property.
Six hundred cats were exhibited at the Crystal Palace show in London. A Florida girl is named among the state’s top hunters after killing seven large alligators with a rifle. A trained night-barking dog failed to warn a theft at A J Johnson’s home in Anthony St I. and a safety breach occurred. Professor Picard used modern dyes to link the River Orbe to Lake Jonux revealing a color change after adding fluorescin. dilution was about one part coloring to 17 million parts water.
A mixed digest reports on Farnham Castle in England and church salary aims for United Methodist ministers in England. It notes a 65 inch pump on a vine in Bluff City Tennessee, mass transfer of convicts to Saghalien, a Paris physician’s consumption treatment, a poisoning case in New Albany Indiana, a fined dog incident in Burton Upon Trent, a Hicksville Ohio wedding party theft, Britannia yacht prize money and crew returns, a typhoid alert in Daviess County Kentucky, Oregon bounty payments for wild animals, and abundant smelts in Bellingham Bay running to shore using garden tools.
A reflective column contrasts self made and inherited fortunes noting how choice of material shapes judgment. It argues indecision and frequent use of if and but lead to social missteps and personal fault, ending with a meditation on love and self-interest.
The piece explains that malaria and related fevers enter through porous mucous membranes caused by catarrh. Peruna is said to heal these membranes and block malarial germs, thereby preventing and curing the illnesses.
The article describes Martinique women itinerant sellers aged nine to thirteen carrying heavy weighted trays. They walk long distances barefoot earning about one franc daily, with meals and lodging costing a few sous, saving to start simple businesses later. They endure harsh labor with no shoes and minimal clothing.
Thomas Squires of Madison received a 3347 inheritance in cash from guardian Dr Youree after a county settlement in Edwardsville. On the trip to St Louis a gust of wind blew his hat away, scattering most of the greenbacks on the pavement. he recovered all but a few bills.
General Manager Underwood outlines July 1 changes to standardize titles at B and O. Harvey Middleton moves from general superintendent of motive power to mechanical superintendent in charge of shops and locomotive car construction and repair. David Lee becomes superintendent maintenance of way trans Ohio division. D A Williams named superintendent of stores.
Historical record reveals a 20 million dollar lien on a small San Jose parcel linked to a 1851 loan of 1300 dollars. The unpaid note, following court actions and foreclosures, swelled to about 21 million including interest and sheriff fees as the property remained encumbered.
General Jacob S. Coxey, famed for leading a tramp army to Washington, has formed a mining venture at Masillon Ohio and leased Shoal Mining near Joplin. The operation reports a vast lead ore vein ten feet thick and rapid extraction, promising fortune for Coxey.
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