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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1909
Page
4
Berlin recounts a Brooklyn woman's July trip to Ocean Grove. She learned from her home maid that a dining-room rug held three champagne corks, 18 cigar butts, five cigarette ends, four blue chips, 36 burnt matches and one pink satin slipper, sparking inspiration for the song.
In a fragmented exchange, Hilda asks to die for Harold and urges him to inform her father of their engagement. Harold affirms and the couple faces a deadly or fatal implied fate.
An advertisement offers a recipe to break a cold in a day and cure a cough using Concentrated pine, glycerine, and whiskey with dosage instructions. It notes the ingredients are available from druggists or wholesale. pine product comes in half ounce bottles in air tight cases.
An old advertisement fragment touts Capudine as a best remedy for colds and grippe. It claims relief for aching and fever, mentions stores carrying the product, and includes humorous social quips about daily life and manners.
Publication promises full ingredient statements to satisfy physicians and Well-Informed readers and urges purchase only from the California Fig Syrup Co. The note explains fig sourcing, medicinal principles, and ethical manufacturing. It mentions a divorce anecdote from Success Magazine and a high-altitude monument at La Cambra in Wide World Magazine.
New York society awaits a formal engagement announcement for Miss Mary Harriman and Robert Walton Goelet. Their plans for a hilltop Arden wedding were postponed by George Harriman's death but are expected to resume soon as a quiet ceremony.
A Helena resident recounts severe kidney discomfort including backache and nocturnal urination issues. After using Doan's Kidney Pills the condition improved, restoring kidney function and alleviating symptoms. Foster Milburn Co. promotes them at 60 cents per box in Buffalo NY.
A brief item notes a boy earning admiration as he clings to his father then helps a lady by offering his seat in the car. The scene highlights courtesy and poised spontaneity reflecting social behavior of the era.
In Albion Maine Mrs. Charles Baker reports two daughters plagued by eczema with hair loss on the scalp and patchy arms. After using Cuticura Remedies their skin softened and improved, with initial relief during warm weather. The notice includes a Boston Potter Drug attribution and dates from 1908.
A joke from The Chorus Lady involves a groom requesting a Wednesday wedding with bells and an organ. The bishop agrees, the church fills, and after the ceremony the bishop asks for payment as the groom delays. The crowd laughs as the scene ends with the bishop’s blunt remark.
Utica pioneer Deacon Stephen Potter famed for honesty and eccentricity refused to inflate land value in a court scene. Asked his opinion on land worth, he declared he would not give a dollar an acre even if his oxen could move a sled on glazed ice.
A health oriented piece extols balanced rations and Quaker Scotch Oats for children athletes and workers. It promotes oats as a universal health food and notes packaging options for distant shoppers. The piece also notes a Chicago reader asking for a New England pie description with literary likenesses to Emerson Massenet Shaw and Gounod.
An advertisement discusses cures for deafness tied to inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh. It promotes a patent medicine with claims of restoring hearing and warns that prolonged inflammation can cause permanent deafness. The page includes other medical ads and humorous anecdotes.
In a Cleveland Leader item a suitor dismisses family tree talk while a narrator from a rural region asserts a man’s worth is shown by his woodpiles. The scene includes a crude remark about a hayseed and a muttered question about his sophistication as he rubs the airships.
A Quip filled column notes social progress with remarks on domestic chores and a laundress replacing a washerwoman. It references a Punch style jab about a golfer and a wasp interrupting a swing, then closes with a moral line and a playful medical ad copy for Perry Davis Pain Killer.
Capt Jerome, visiting Col Higginson, asks if a loaded derringer loads then a discharge injures the visitor. The colonel bows and coolly replies Not now, my dear captain. A wife jokes that a visit prompts fresh suspicions at home.
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