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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1902
Page
4
To working girls not well, Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts invites letters seeking free medical guidance. The advice has aided thousands in regaining health through this popular outreach program.
After Braddock Down, Sir Ralph Hopton and Cornwall’s leaders drive Ruthven’s army to Liskeard. The narrator and Joan, recovering from wounds, travel to Bodmin Fair where Joan defends her honor by attacking a sneering Cheap Jack and an astrologer, ending with a dramatic scuffle.
New York Times reports a club discussion about J. Pierpont Morgan guiding the trait of Miss Milligan. The solitaire game Miss Milligan, now a social fad, uses two decks arranged in eight rows with alternating red and black layers, ending in a precise sequence as cards are exhausted.
A New England clergyman’s son is described through a tale attributed to a politician. The father tests future paths by leaving a Bible, a silver dollar, and an apple with the boy. the boy ends up with all three, prompting the remark that the child should become a politician.
A lighthearted Chicago News cartoon dialogue has a wife asking about her husband’s serious case and a physician replying he will recover with rest. The doctor jokes that the wife should take the opiate instead, suggesting the issue is resolved by rest.
A Baltimore petitioned deputation protests street car service lacking straps. The magnate promises immediate increase in service and adds more straps, easing the riders concerns and delighting the crowd.
A terse dialogue line appears attributing a flirtatious exchange about fatigue from being loved by one partner. The dated tone suggests a newspaper clipping snippet rather than a full feature. No broader context is provided.
A Kansas report touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as the cure for kidney troubles and related diseases. It cites J. B. Cunningham who suffered long with kidney issues and found relief only after using the pills, claiming they did more good than anything else he tried.
The Brooklyn Eagle notes a dramatic rise in violence in London during a sunless, rainy season. It blames gloom and alcohol availability for a surge in murders, attempted murders, and personal crises, affecting all social ranks from aristocracy to tramp.
A Greek hotel keeper greets guests with a single comical English phrase that misleads them into believing meals are prepared. A naval officer cites a cafe chantant placard in Alexandria with multilingual text revealing odd mistranslated pricing and complaints procedures.
A colored woman pleads for a penny to ride to Georgetown and is repeatedly offered small coins by passersby. A man drops a nickel, declines her four pennies, and she moves on to another donor who also gives a nickel for the four cents she offers. She remarks on meeting stingy folks as she gathers four more pennies.
In a brief exchange from the New York Evening World a child teases about waiting to tell his sister when she returns, underscoring a domestic moment in an urban page snippet.
The piece promotes Dr August Koenigs Hamburg Breast Tea Hamburg Drops and St Jacobs Oil as a home remedy trio for coughs and likely lung ailments. It advises meals open air sleep near outdoors cold sponge bath and vigorous towels, claims improvement within a week for non severe cases with a $1.25 package.
Richard T. Fisher estimates the Sequoias as probably five thousand years old. The article notes crows have at least twenty seven distinct cries, each tied to a specific action.
Increased imports of American cornmeal into France are driven mainly by its use to fatten geese.
Spanish is listed as a study at Newsom College in Mississippi with Professor Nunez de Villivicencio as the instructor guiding the program.
In Germany some doctors charge two cents for a consultation and four cents for a visit. An American note cites Marion Smail in Indianapolis receiving eight dollars and forty cents, with a request to send six dozen G. A. RK. off. Retail ad copy promotes Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children at twenty five cents per bottle.
The Big Four Route promotes the Home stead Hotel on the Chesapeake and Ohio line. The brick hotel has 460 rooms and private baths with long distance phones. It features a bath house waters for rheumatism and related ailments, golf, tennis, squash, and dining train service with reduced holiday fares and tickets sold December 24 25 and January 1 with return by January 2. For details see agents or D P Algeo D P A.
Public notice announces holiday excursions on the Monon Route with a final return by January 2. The distribution date is January 1 and the issuing officials are D. P. Algéo and D. P. A.
A Lyons Cole young woman reportedly killed a bear and two cubs while out hunting cattle near Scarborough England. A Massachusetts man died from apoplexy caused by extreme focus during a chess game. A Brussels publisher begins a periodical dedicated to milk science.
This fragment notes that familiar critique toward friends fosters contempt, hinting at social tension. It presents a general reflection without specific events, people, or places.
One of these dresses will be given away to ladies who sell five of our patterns. The offer lasts thirty days. Write for particulars to Wright and Leece at 194 Broadway, New York.
A farm operates as a butterfly and moth raising venture producing 20 000 a season. The short item notes the agricultural enterprise and its stated annual output.
Louis E. Johnson son of Reverdy Johnson urges Peruna as a universal cure for catarrh citing relief for many. The ad claims catarrh poisons body fluids and that only Peruna attacks roots by restoring elasticity of capillary vessels. Includes offer to send Dr Hartman’s free book and free advice at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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