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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
8
The Merman sails toward Byster mouth with Private Harry Bliss aboard after a drunken desertion by Bliss and theft of crew clothes. The ship's crew chase through the night while sailors mock the skipper as Bliss seeks a new path ashore.
In a witty aside from Puck, a speaker guesses a lovers lane but is reminded the suburb is strictly fashionable as they reference Affinity avenue in a lighthearted exchange.
James Mason survives a perilous ascent in the Queretaro uplands when a sun powered burning glass traps him on a narrow ledge. Mara the Jonace priest saves him from the temple, revealing a ritual sacrifice demanded by Tonathiu during a solar eclipse on May 28 1900.
Berlin reports Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of the Kaiser, selects marriage over Harvard studies. His bride is his cousin Princess Adelaide Schleswig Holstein Sonderberg Glucksburg born October 19, 1889. The couple plan a wedding with close family involvement.
Elaborate preparations are under way for the empress birthday ceremony on October 22 as Berlin readies pomp comparable to historic royal weddings. Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm and Princess Cecelia of Mecklenburg are cited in contrast to earlier alliances with Princess Sophie of Oldenburg. August Wilhelm follows his father’s advice in selecting a German Hohenzollern bride.
A rousing proclamation compares life to soldiering in a foreign campaign. It urges submission courage and joy in duty while claiming vast temporal horizons and a duty to conquer and create for future generations. The speaker invokes timeless human effort and celestial ambition as motivators.
A Thunderer notice seeks a man for demonstration of the old English rack used in Star Chamber tortures. The ad aims to show how the rack stretched victims to wring confessions, a claim that has attracted skepticism about its historicity.
A metropolitan cotillion featured a debutante and her grandmother dancing side by side. The two were slender and graceful, yet observers noted auburn hair and halting speech in the debutante versus white hair and fluent speech in the grandmother.
A brief dialogue from a New York Weekly classified sketch shows a housekeeper taunting a tramp about finding work. The tramp claims no trade or business and hints at a wealthy father being the reason for his situation. The exchange satirizes social attitudes toward poverty.
A Washington DC attorney R S Tharin testifies Peruna aids catarrhal disorders and serves as a useful tonic. A Barnecott, Ontario user reports pneumonia recovery after two months with Peruna and notes a positive impact on a relative also ill. The notice mentions Peruna tablets as a solid form equal to one dose and suggests tablet options.
A fragmentary exchange suggests a joke or advertisement about a new rheumatism cure. Jack questions the remedy while Bill responds with a playful vow, reflecting light local humor.
An old cure promises to break a cold in 24 hours using one ounce each of Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla and Torls Compound plus a half pint of whiskey mixed and shaken. Doses are a tablespoonful every four hours and ingredients are available at any drug store.
A brief maxim quoting Gurdon warns that speech should edify when lawful and expedient, urging restraint and purposeful discourse.
An assortment of old advertisements mentions Pettit's Eye Salve for diseased eyes from Howard Bros., Buffalo, NY. Also cites Lewis' Single Binder cigars from Peoria IL and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children, plus a proverb about costs of trouble and a line about a pocket knife and grindstone.
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