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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
3
A Washington visit by Admiral Evans yields a playful exchange over a lace-edged handkerchief as he quizzically questions a young man about hairpins. The page also features quips about laxative bromide products, gemstone care tips, a humorous domestic scene, and a Chicago post office odor joke.
Reporters question acts of heroism as residents recount a blaze in a Castor IA building. One victim praises selfless work of neighbors who carried a piano from the second floor amid heavy smoke and danger.
A customer compliments a coal wagon driver’s striking appearance and learns the driver once was a cowboy. The dealer explains the man chose the coal job to use his vocabulary, prompting a wry exchange about career changes.
A brief column describes a Balanced Pall apparatus to support a bucket with minimal tilt and notes on a water motion experiment using camphor and oils. It ends with a light verse about wishing for fairy tale times and mentions Mary Street in December from Lippincott's.
A simple pasteboard basket with cro tone cover folds flat for travel. Five sewn sections form the box with a handle the basket length when opened. Cushions and needle book stitch to sides with brass rings for rib bons to shape it. Includes pocket and vine patterned fabric from Youth's Companion. Powell Christmas joke ends with Klondike quip.
The remark notes a British press comment about an American woman known for slipping into natural poses. It highlights her effortless poise and photographic ease.
A testimonial from Mrs. Lavina J. Henderson recalls severe inflammatory rheumatism four years earlier with skin peeling hair loss and bed sores. She credits Cathorn Re solvent soap and ointment for rapid improvement and hair regrowth, noting skin complexion and appetite recovered after treatment. March 6 and 12 1907. The piece ends with social commentary from the London Chronicle on marriage roles in America.
An old advertisement claims deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh, asserting only constitutional remedies work. It offers one hundred dollars for an untreatable case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills, Toledo firm J Cheney & Co.
A London man asked a lawyer about attaching assets of a debtor who owed him. The lawyer replied the debtor died a year ago and that only a widow remains with potentially attachable property. Also mentions a herbal cure ad and Pazo Ointment for piles.
Two old neighbors joke about a son who learned seven languages but not how to express ideas. A humorous aside follows about clothes whitening products and a Columbian University life-saving course for women students with timed rescues.
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