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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1903
Page
8
A dated collage shows a father praising animated painting and a joke about Napoleon at Waterloo followed by a mining investment pitch for Numitor Gold Mine. It touts mining stock as a small capital opportunity with guaranteed repayment and urges writing to 1621 Diversey Blvd Chicago for a booklet.
Advertises new through services from St. Louis to Texas and California via Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific lines. Lists multiple daily train departures with Pullman sleepers, dining cars, and chair cars. Notes tourist tickets year round and sleeping car service St. Louis to Los Angeles. Includes quotes and notices from Puck and Emerson.
Mrs Pare of Glasgow Kentucky describes relief from kidney trouble after using Deans Kidney Pills. She cites regulated secretions, reduced back pain and disappearance of scalding sensations. Sold by dealers, 50 cents per box, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Ellen Omond e surveys current style notes for women with modest budgets. She favors wrap garments and flannel frocks, praising Japanese inspired fabrics, crepe de chine, and rich satins. Practical tips cover color harmony, fabrics like French flannel and deli ne, and the rise of the three quarter basque and bolero coats.
A New York fire ends with children mistaking dolls for missing siblings. A doll hospital janitor housed 24 crippled dolls, and 15 recovered dolls were returned to their owners as fire crews finished their work. The moment blends dramatic emergency with small city humor.
A child narrator describes the Sand-Man as a kindly figure who arrives at night to claim sleeping children. As day ends, children stop playing and drift toward bed while sparkling eyes grow sleepy and lips become quiet, signaling the Sand-Man’s long-awaited arrival.
A Philadelphia fish dealer relays a humorous NY Weekly account of oyster schools that train oysters to keep their shells closed when out of water. Trained oysters survive longer while untrained ones die quickly, leading to graduation and release back into the world.
A playful experiment uses a hard boiled egg on a china plate to make the egg stand on end by a quick spin. The plate tips over the edge to catch the egg as it twists, then the egg remains in motion. Also noted is a cat in Salem MD that winds a store clock and a New York boy who shot a 250 pound Adirondack bear with his mother nearby.
A Mother Mouse seeks a home for her five tiny offspring amid attic stockings and bonnet boxes then moves to the oriole nest tale where a baby mouse falls to the floor. The page also recalls literary anecdotes about Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, Henley and Depew with quips about pronunciation and a butcher’s joke.
Mr Jacob Pleig of Brooklyn writes he became a new man at age seventy five thanks to Peruna. The ad warns catarrhal inflammation of kidney mucosa or Bright's disease may be acute or chronic and urges starting Peruna at first symptoms. A free book on_enturra sent by Peruna Medicine Co.
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