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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1938
Page
3
In a brisk exchange a shoeshine offers free service for a start then suggests ten cent shined work. A wary boss questions the deal and references family ties before mentioning Cohen and Levy in a terse, urban street vignette.
A prisoner endured a torture chamber with a dropping pendulum and gnawing rats as guards aimed to push him into a pit. He freed himself by striking as the blade rose, then escaped a closing cell wall heat, and the French forces reportedly defeated his enemies, saving him.
A brief on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum describes a prisoner awakening in a dark dungeon. He marks his starting point, measures the cell, and discovers a hidden pit while fearing Inquisition judges and potential entombment.
The article outlines Edgar Allan Poe's turbulent life from 1809 to 1849, noting his celebrated literary criticism, short stories, and poems while detailing difficulties at the University of Virginia and West Point, disinheritance, and a reputation for recklessness that persisted despite later biographical reassessment.
Household Questions offers practical tips for daily care. Includes browning griddle cakes with molasses, crafting children lunches from gray ham crackers, keeping fruit gelatinstable by chilling, extending mattress life with pads, washing tumblers with cold rinse after milk, and preparing garments for dyeing by removing trims and ripping hems to ensure even color.
An old advertisement invites women to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to calm nerves and ease symptoms of functional disorders. It touts three generations of user tips and urges readers to purchase from their druggist, noting many letters praising the product.
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