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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1915
Page
3
A Socialist speaker laments the laborer's empty dinner pail while a spectator calls for sharing. Red Cross Ball Blue is praised as the best in America for the housewife. Blondine Winnie Wagegle is noted for a promising future, and a manager remarks on opportunities in theater for a woman with a past.
The speaker observes that Love’s broad smiles go to the prettiest girls, noting a bias in affection. The exchange highlights a witty dispute over whether love can be impartial or merely flattering.
Orator expresses bitterness about the audience reaction saying they applauded but with little noise, comparing it to a rubber heel in a feather bed.
A fragment from Town Topics notes on a writer of senatorial literature and public perception. The piece questions his success and stature, contrasting personal taste with critical regard and his standing in cultural circles.
A fragmentary meditation discusses consulting a beauty doctor about complexion and asserts that every woman's estimation of sex is confirmed by the devil as a man. It contrasts marriage as monotony that tempers life’s excitement.
Archaeologists led by Nels C. Nelson with the American Museum of Natural History report renewed excavations along the Rio Grande near Santa Fe uncovering 150 ruins and cliff dwellings, glazed wares, painted pottery, and tools dating back 1,000 to 2,000 years. The finds include stone idols, reservoirs, an ancient dam, and a Tlanos bowl, shaping understanding of early New Mexico civilizations.
Mrs E Y Eltonhead reports findings on dog characteristics including grief self respect and play from puppyhood to old age. She notes sulkiness when a new child enters the family jealousy and the lack of pretense in dogs as a human trait they lack.
Fragmentary notes describe the Turkish army around 1877 with 752,000 men in the field and another 120,000 in reserve or scattered units. The text hints at criticisms of editing and accuracy in the source while outlining large force sizes.
A mix of quotes and ads appears with a Baltimore Sun snippet about grieving wives and a Marine Eye Remedy promotion from Chicago. The page also includes classroom dialogue where a boy is pressed to use the word correctly and replies with a hominy reference.
A quoted exchange contrasts why women choose outfits. The dialogue suggests motivations include pleasing men and prompting admiration or envy among peers. The snippet reflects social attitudes on fashion and gendered perception.
Many school children are sickly and fussy. A. S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York promotes Mother Grey’s Sweet Powders for Children to cleanse the stomach aid the liver and soothe delicate upset kids. A worm remedy and 25 cents at druggists with a free sample offered.
Josef Hofman tells a tale about audience attitudes to piano recitals. A man with two paid tickets is barred at the door for being drunk, and he asks if his tickets are in order. The official replies they are, but the man insists he is drunk because he would attend a piano recital.
A clever convict who escaped prison was noted for exceptional manners even while assaulting a guard. He apologized as he forced his way out, remarking on the liberty he was taking. A separate quip notes that a wise man undervalues a woman's age by ten years.
Department manager explains the clerk hired last week was fired for incompetence. Miss Giddigad telephoned about a spoonholder and the clerk asked if a hammock would do. Published in the Youngstown Telegram.
A letter from F C Case of Welcome Lake Pa describes relief from back and kidney troubles after using Dodds Kidney Pills. The advertisement invites readers to publish the letter for others and notes pills are 50 cents per box with other products offered by Dodds Medicine Co from Buffalo New York.
A social worker offers practical guidance addressing poverty. The dialogue notes evolving theories and asks what comes next as one expert suggests the poor should modify living costs by buying goods in barrel lots to save money.
Dialogue shifts from money to merging incomes as a path to a possible marriage. She questions practicality if each cannot live on current earnings, while he contemplates the benefit of combining finances for at least one feasible life.
In the Evening Transcript an exchange features a clerk praising a burglar alarm as the best and a customer asking for one that will alarm the burglar, highlighting humorous dialogue about home security.
Billy Mooney, after running a barbershop in Centerville for years, decides to become a dentist. His Uncle Si visits and jokes that dentistry should be easy since Billy already knows how to work the chair. The scene captures a humorous family moment about career change.
A playful dialogue between wife and husband about going out. The husband defends his outings as heightening the pleasure of staying home, joking that the pleasure requires a great deal of heightening.
A distressed speaker pleads with a dentist, saying his tooth nearly kills him. The dentist quotes fifty cents for extraction and the caller asks for a cheaper half-pull option, offering only a quarter. The Kansas City Star captures this humorous barbed exchange.
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