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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
4
A grateful woman recounts a narrow escape and endorses Peruna for coughs. She claims two bottles cured a persistent cough when doctors could not, restoring her health in a couple of weeks and lasting thereafter. The testimonial is attributed to AIRS F J Lynch.
A historical advertisement extols Peruna as a universal cure for catarrh and its ripple effects through health. It links persistent coughs to heart disease and consumption, claims medical endorsement, and offers the remedy with a free guide from The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus Ohio.
A northwest poultry dealer sent dressed turkeys to a San Francisco commission buyer known for strict deductions. The recipient claimed four birds arrived dead and demanded a deduction, but the shipper refused, noting a policy to ship live dressed birds in heated cars to avoid spoilage and high mortality.
During a session painting Chill October by the Tay Millais is approached by a Scotsman who suggests photography to speed the work. The painter declines, and the man jokes that photography would be quicker and capture the true likeness of the scene.
The Indianapolis Journal ridicules a claim that massage can cure baldness. The item notes men who attempted the technique and ended up balder, framing the assertion as nonsense.
A famed tenor Sims Reeves is teased at a country station over earnings as an old porter wagers on a high wage. Reeves replies with a playful song line. Also noted is a 1900 US city population booklet from Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway offering copies for postage.
Frederick E Hopkins preaches that Christmas marks a universal reason for joy and suffering, uniting all people through Jesus. He paints dawn church scenes with sexton, bells, and organ, urging ministers and worshipers to reflect on Jesus as the shared center of faith across denominations.
A brief quarrel erupts as one person recalls screaming under the mistletoe while another teases that fear of being noticed may have driven the reaction. The exchange captures a playful, rumor like moment between two individuals.
A verse from Carolyn Wells in Judge notes that in Norway the night before Christmas lasts six months. The poem contrasts a quiet, unadorned household with cultural difference, highlighting a festive season timing anomaly.
A dialogue from the Chicago Tribune notes Mrs Billus plans a full length mirror for her room as Bessie’s present. Mr Billus counters with a tough and curable floor rug to place in front of it, settling the exchange with humor.
A cowboy near Wilcox was bitten by a mad skunk on a range and died of hydrophobia. The note links the incident to warnings about animal bites and rabies risks in frontier areas. The passage also interleaves quips about travel costs and a Persian shah observing a mechanical clock in Paris, ending with a wry remark about killing time.
Berne experiments with free work shops for tailors and shoemakers while Stockholm offers 40 000 telephone stations and cheap messages within fifty miles. Rotterdam edges Amsterdam as Holland prosper picks up German trade and U S business. Teheran plans a monument to Alexander Gribokedoff, the murdered Russian minister in 1529.
Coal holds the highest price in South Africa and the lowest in China. Last year machine mined coal totaled 43,963,933 short tons, up 11,650,933 tons from 1808. Magenta from a ton can dye 500 yards of flannel while vermilion can dye 2,560 yards. Electric coal cutting machinery is replacing hand mining in Britain and the United States, yielding clearer coal with less waste and better mine ventilation.
The piece surveys prominent figures and trivia including President McKinley’s autograph kindness, Dr. Stanton Coit as an American English ethical culture leader, Sir William Lyne’s $2500 prize for an ode to Australia, Lowell in New Orleans for a new novel, John Sherman’s tall lineage, Sir James Joicey’s wealth and rise from Newcastle clerk, Pleasanton’s massive hop field, Canadian beer consumption versus the U S, and polo’s ancient roots in Asia with early handball-like tradition in Japan.
A jumble of jokes and quips from multiple papers and era, pithy lines about an undertaker who is only a grocery clerk earning six dollars a week, quick product notices, and humorous anecdotes. The items include observational humor about social audiences, cures and tonics, and light fiction snippets.
The decree ends Siberia as a penal colony following the Trans Siberian railway project. Rapid settlement by farmers is anticipated as the plains open, with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters promoted for digestion and related ailments in a brief, period voice.
Miss Northside jokes she can still obtain a seat in a crowded street car. Miss Shadyside replies that men give seats to both old age and youth, reflecting social humor in Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co of St. Louis releases a 264 page catalogue with 3 500 engravings priced 25 cents to 1 000 dollars. It promises low prices on diamonds watches silverware and more and offers free postage to the first 10 000 respondents. Visitors are invited to inspect marble statuary and art wares while in St Louis. Also contains an unrelated humorous exchange from the Philadelphia Bulletin.
An advertisement outlines a one hundred dollar reward for any catarrh case not cured by Mall's Catarrh Cure, with endorsements from West & Truax and Walding, Kinnan & Marvin. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as internal medicine, price 75 cents, and notes other medical products and humorous clippings as context.
A reader invites women to write to Lydia E Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts for free advice citing a testimonial from Mrs Jolly Williams of Englishtown New Jersey who states that Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her uterine neck complications and misery The item emphasizes widespread cases Mrs Pinkham receives and urges seeking the remedy at stores while promising absolute cures through her guidance
A quip about Nobbs losing all furniture due to a false fire alarm in a suburban town with a volunteer fire department. The joke implies the furniture was destroyed by the fire emergency itself, not by an actual blaze. The remark appears as a whimsical, local commentary from the Baltimore American.
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