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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1908
Page
3
An advertisement highlights Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female troubles including displacements, inflammation, and backache. It features testimonials from Mrs. F. Ellsworth and Mrs. W. P. Boyd and invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Mass.
Promises 160 acres in Saskatchewan and Alberta with wheat oats and barley yields, timber for fences, low taxes, good markets, and rail access. Entry via Revised Homestead Regulations with $10 fee, claims for family members, pamphlet available from government agents in Ottawa or Indianapolis. Advertising line asks readers to note where seen.
A new woman's paper named El Feminal is to be issued monthly in Barcelona with editor Carmen Karr Lascarte. It aims to advance Spanish women's interests and solicits contributions from women worldwide, including advocates of equal suffrage in America and England.
A dialogue from the Catholic Standard and Times depicts a man and Beth alone together. He longs to confess love but she hears his words and responds with a frank, decisive refusal.
A brief note from the New York Sun summarizing an explorer named Stanley and his claim that he can read a fashionable letter easily. The piece depicts him jumping across pages in a travelogue to quickly scan content.
A fragmentary poem notes a woman named Jennie who swipes a penny and, pressed to dispose of fingers and rose, proclaims she will use her Antenne. The line recalls Harper's Weekly era slang and wordplay.
A comic exchange notes a ten day vegetarian diet, highlighting a punchline about saving enough to buy coal. The Milwaukee Sentinel tone reflects light social humor on food choices and frugality.
A Pittsburg Press quip notes a king declaring he will hire a varlet to supply filler and produce a first class historical novel. The line blends sarcasm and literary pretension.
A Pittsburg Post report records a combative congressman protesting a speech setup. He demands replacing stage laughter with harsher terms like gouging and biting, signaling heated debate over presentation methods.
Eph Green asks to purchase a razzer but the clerk offers safety and comments the item is for social use not personal defense. The exchange appears in Harper's Weekly with dialect and tone reflecting 19th century informal dialogue.
A Morrison Illinois reader reports eczema on the head cured by Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills after one cake and one box used. A sister also recovered from head eczema with the Cuticura Remedies and another sister found Cuticura Resolvent and Pills a splendid tonic.
A reflective aphorism warns that without attention to what enters the heart, purity cannot be maintained. It emphasizes mindful intake of thoughts and influences to preserve virtue and integrity.
Farmers urged to request John A. Salzer Seed Co. La Crosse Wis big catalog featuring Moravian Barley Speirs Salter’s Billion Dollar Grass Teosinte Emperor William Oat and other rare farm seeds. Send 10 cents in stamps for samples and catalog.
A concise aphorism notes that outward piety cannot hide hidden danger. The saying contrasts a sacred symbol with concealed harm, suggesting moral inconsistency between appearance and action. It reflects cautious social judgment about virtue versus concealed vice.
An advertisement touts St Jacobs Oil as especially suited for chronic rheumatism neuralgia and related diseases that have resisted other remedies. It claims the oil is not infallible but adapts well to long standing cases beyond all known specifics and physicians prescriptions.
A brief Bible citation proclaims that earthly life is a temptation. The adage reflects a common moral theme found in religious readings.
Advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case. Claims the cure affects blood and mucous surfaces. Includes endorsements from Wabpina Kinnan Marvin and F J Cheney & Co with a price of ten cents per bottle and a note to take Hall's Family Pills. Sterne quote included.
An advertisement extols Cascarets as the sole artificial bowel exercise. It contrasts Sawbuck wood sawing and ten mile walks with Cascarets that supposedly strengthen bowels without purging or upsetting the stomach. The 10 cent box is portable, genuine from Sterling Remedy Company, and stamped GCC.
A church lesson outlines Nicodemus a Pharisee and Sanhedrin member visiting Jesus at night. It emphasizes being born again by water and spirit and faith in the Son of Man lifted up for eternal life.
A reflective remark notes that those who lack love seem to carry excessive sorrow and distribute it to others.
A famous personage motored in Derbyshire when a policeman halted him. The officer asked him to remove a mask, saying it frightened onlookers. The driver insisted he was not wearing a mask.
A Philadelphia Ledger remark jokes about women’s words and courtesy in transit. The quote notes a man must yield a seat to a madam, playfully contrasting social etiquette with stubborn speech.
A witty exchange from Harper's Bazaar notes a husband growling at his wife who wears a dress buttoned down the back. She replies gently that he’d dislike it if she wore it unbuttoned, illustrating playful marital dynamics.
A dialogue snippet features a fiancée promising to reveal all after marriage, while Cousin Fannie’s husband boasts he will disclose even more that never happens. The light banter hinges on truth and fiction in domestic expectations.
A brief New York Press excerpt shows a late night confrontation with a distressed speaker lamenting lack of company after others left, questioning why a partner returns so early. The exchange captures mood of loneliness and social friction in a single dialogue snippet.
A Plain Dealer quip frames a buyer testing a car with a joke about safety and comfort. The salesman retorts that the springs are smooth, implying a quiet ride. The exchange reflects light humor about automotive reliability in a newspaper quote.
In a dash of farce a father exclaims relief as his daughter Gwendolyn elopes with the family's chauffeur and drives away in the motor car. The exchange, laced with humor, ends with the Old Man hopeful about savings now that both girl and car are gone.
The Assyrian worker scratches hieroglyphics on a brick while his friend jokes about future Assyriologists translating the inscription. A light, humorous exchange reflects a historical curiosity about ancient scripts.
Mrs B R Buffham of Roswell New Mexico reports success using 20 Mule Team Borax to rid poultry of lice. She notes past harmful inflammable lice killers, sprayed her C L Leghorn house two months earlier, and this method left her flock free of lice and she will continue its use as spray and wash.
A terse exchange reveals the proprietor is away and the visitor learns he is at the undertaker's because he has died. The office boy confirms the delay and the absence with laconic replies.
Peter O Connor, 87, lifelong Flint resident, spends each winter in bed to avoid cold weather. He lives with a nephew and stays wrapped in blankets on a cot near a continuously burning stove, a practice noted for three decades.
Mrs Growthler scolds her husband for fixating on horses and jokes he married a nag. He retorts while his face hides behind a sporting page, hinting at ongoing domestic friction centered on horses.
Henry James comments on a self written line described as chastely mystical and lovely. The company agrees but seeks meaning while James shows a wave of pain across his face, saying he hoped someone could interpret the phrase.
A Baltimore Sun verse notes the joke that marriage begins with two becoming one yet soon yields another child. The quip frames love and family growth as a playful math problem with a single outcome.
A quirky Buffalo News item references a sleeper from the Amazon Put nighties era and cites a grandmazon joke about being too fat for pajamazon. The piece mixes playful humor with consumer culture satire.
An advertisement claims Grape Nuts strengthens babies and adults, recounting a case where a gravely ill infant was saved by a prepared Grape Nuts juice mix. The message promotes the cereal as the best food for delicate children and a nourishing option for all ages, ending with a slogan and a reading suggestion.
A facetious customer asks if the barber can cut hair without making him look foolish. The barber doubts success but vows to try, capturing a humorous exchange from Lippincott's Magazine.
A quoted exchange from the Pittsburgh Post shows a grafter's wife challenging a man to inspect a cellar and test the furnace, hinting at ongoing workplace or domestic tension. The line captures local color and a gritty, urban mood.
An old advertisement mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claimed to soothe children and ease pain for wind colic, offered at 25 cents a bottle. A second line notes that women place importance on a pretty invitation.
A nostalgic ad promotes Mrs Austins Buckwheat flour as the secret to good old fashioned cakes now available at all grocers. The copy links destiny to determination in a brief marketing tone.
Advertising claim states PAZO Ointment cures itching bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money back. No further details provided.
A Washington boy named Harry, asked if he might become U S president, says he may try after aging out as a pitcher. The remark reflects a lighthearted view that one can have multiple ambitions.
A Southwest sender asks the proper afternoon groom dress. The New York shop replies with bottle green coat fawn trousers top boots silk hat cockade and prices. A follow up note pleads for simpler wedding attire due to expense.
A playful exchange about eloping includes concern that burglars could use the door used to escape. The reply reassures the door is secure as the father had locked it after the escape, with the Houston Post noting the lighthearted domestic moment.
Puck lampoons a man who spent years chasing vain grooming and newspaper recipes instead of earning honor, implying his ignominy through a sharp, ironic swipe.
A humorous note from the Chicago News mocks scientists as they claim discovery of a new disease named Hiram. The column parodies doctors chasing cures for rheumatism by chasing new illnesses.
Mrs. W L Merritt of Anoka Minnesota shares a kidney weakness tale from last winter with back and hip pains dizziness and irregular kidney secretions. She reports relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills and urges others to try them. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The well informed demand a simple pleasant laxative and the California Fig Syrup Co promotes its Syrup of Figs with Elixir of Senna as a safe effective remedy. Genuine product sold by leading druggists. price fifty cents per bottle.
A local reflection on integrity frames one man’s struggle to trust a neighbor who cannot trust himself. The piece explores moral friction, community trust, and the pressure to act openly in a small town.
A vintage ad touts a laxative bromide product branded as Bromo Quinine with a claim of curing a cold in one day attributed to a signature of E. W. Grove. The wording says used the world over to cure a cold in one day.
Mrs. Austins Buckwheat cakes praised for breakfast appeal as fresh goods appear at area grocers. Nature faking themes noted in quirky observations about hats and daily life.
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