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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
2
A garbled line indicates a notice about Monroe City Missouri post office handling as a second class matter. The fragment preserves a historic mailing label implication and local civic context.
A collection of wry quips on pride and culture. Observations span self uplift versus pulling others up, extremes meeting, and the ease of smiling under debt. It notes the timing of agreeable refusals and the paradox of marriage as a favor to a wife. Chicago Daily News.
A collection of quotable lines attributed to figures like Newell Dwight Hills and William James. The passages emphasize daily effort, self-reliance, integrity, purpose, progress, and the idea that character is the best advertisement.
The Quincy Herald questions why government guarantees for bank deposits should differ from guarantees in other fields. It imagines a banker gambling with deposits, noting winners stay fine but losers risk nothing if the government backs all deposits, comparing to guarantees for crops and religious revivals.
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday March 4th, lasts forty days until Easter April 19th. Easter is a movable feast based on the lunar calendar, regulated since Nicea. The article notes historical rules, recent relaxations, and that Easter can fall between March 22 and April 25, with specific dates for 1886 and 1818.
Robert Aull park commissioner visits St Louis and is astonished by five pretty parks and their upkeep. He exclaims that the parks beat any other town, noting residents recognize their fortune and take pride in the parks.
A compact excerpt from the New York Press reflecting on flattery, gendered logic, virtue, fear, engagement, and social dining with ironic tone. It notes a minister visiting for dinner prompts grumbling while the minister withholds personal feeling.
A Tuesday night tacky party was held at Miss Mae Jackson's Sharpsburg home. Attendees included John Jackson, Clarence Leake, Harry Smith, Anna Nolen, Susie Jackson, Susie Burditt, Elizabeth Gosney and Jessie Colvert, with good cheer despite modest numbers.
An account of a Chinese opium den describes a two floor room with a wooden platform divided into compartments for two smokers each. A dim lamp, thick fumes, and a keeper at a desk accompany a scene of twenty smokers, with an attendant supplying opium priced at fifteen cents per thimbleful.
A salesman muses that being in a thousand places at once would boost orders. He praises the newspaper ad for its ubiquity and constant presence, waiting in ante rooms and meeting the right men all day and night, quietly doing business. The ad is called a magic salesman by the Quincy Herald.
A nostalgic definition extols the newspaper as the cheapest, most faithful weekly friend. It travels rain or shine and pays for itself with each egg laid, offering sunshine, cheer, and access to the world. It urges every man to provide local papers for his family, even linking lack of reading to marital discord.
Catarrh is caused by germs in the air passages and can lead to chronic illness or consumption. Stomach dosing is ineffective. Hyomei inhaled with air is marketed as the healing agent. L. M Wood offers a dollar outfit with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
The informal wedding of Kate Dillon to Victor Reid took place at noon Thursday at the bride's mother Mrs C. in Silk Stocking Row Shel bina area officiated by Rev. Robert White. After an informal dinner the couple left for the Future Great on the Burlington. May they find happiness together.
A Kansas City pastor last Sunday offered a concise list of Donts and Dos for married men. The speech highlighted personal conduct and guidance, noting the ease of criticizing others while failing to address one's own habits.
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