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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1901
Page
4
A reader notices vendors push cheap powders for housekeepers and questions whether lower price means inferiority and digestion harm. A Boston meeting quotes a speaker mixing humor with caution on economical choices and child teething remedies, referencing Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup and other domestic chatter from the era.
A judge gently chides a female witness Miss Passeigh over her speech hesitancy asking her age. He quips about careful pronunciation and grants three chances to pronounce the word esses correctly in a courtroom moment reflecting era etiquette.
In an assortment of 1900s-era items a catalog text mentions genuine Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets promising a cold cure in one day, a marriage proposal with a sharp reply, a 12 dollar offer for a 4 by 5 camera with full description, and humorous exchanges about cigars and Lent as gifts and temptations. The fragments reflect commercial notices and social minutiae.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for tiredness indigestion pimples and other signs of impure blood. It claims the medicine strengthens weak functions builds up the whole system and praises personal testimonials from J A Reynolds of Stockton and others.
A humorous dialogue features a husband declaring only sensible women should marry, and a wife retorting that such a rule would leave him a bachelor. The exchange highlights sharp, playful gendered humor in a domestic setting.
Two men exchange curt dialogue about seeking a soft job for a drink. One character insists he is truly looking for work while the other mocks the claim, highlighting distrust and casual street talk.
In Minneapolis discussions cite the Carrie Nation campaign as influential beyond expectations. A local chatter notes vaudeville jokes referencing Carrie Nation may persist for years while other remarks poke at civic life and petty routines.
The Youths Companion marks its 74th year with an April 18, 1901 souvenir featuring three maps. One watershed shows U S territory in 1827, another maps the 1901 railway network at 187 781 miles, and the third lists subscribers by state reaching 545 342 homes.
A collection of humorous lines and ad copy excerpts. The text includes a testimonial about Bromo-Quinine Tablets priced at a quarter, a classroom quip about human adaptation, a stat on money spent to protect vice in New York, and brief comic exchanges about daily life and neighbors.
Dodger quips about a New York clergyman who has conducted 3,012 marriages in his career. The joke hinges on the moral burden he would bear for so many unions.
The advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh by treating the blood and mucous membranes. It offers a hundred dollar reward for any case it fails to cure and asks readers to send for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. It also promotes The Malls Family Pills as best.
A fragmented excerpt shows a mother and boy dialogue about horrible examples and a segue into a vintage sale pitch for a cleansers product. The garbled text mentions germs disease and a brand claim for Casarets Cand y Cathartic along with generic drugstore references.
A dialogue hints at Boud rocks 80 being seen as lucky due to past betrayals and a fresh start after others abandoned him, allowing him to begin life anew with a clean slate.
Johnson questions truthfulness while Parkinson insists one cannot know a man’s limits until he attempts. The dialogue centers on honesty and potential.
A fierce browed orator declares his views unpopular and recalls being struck on the head by a brick during a public platform speech ten days earlier. A heckler from the crowd challenges his timing as he resumes speaking.
In a playful exchange, Joe recounts attempting to dye an aging red mustache brown, only to end with an unplanned green hue and a humorous admission of disappointment.
A Canadian eye doctor contends that about a quarter of his blind patients could have been saved with early infancy precautions. The piece interweaves a nostalgic recital with humor about aging and time.
A new company forms to control the printing process without ink promising rapid industry change. Hostettler's Stomach Hitters resists innovations and is advertised as a cure for dyspepsia indigestion biliousness insomnia constipation and nervousness with a claim to prevent malaria fever and ague.
The man explains to his wife that a letter intended for her remained in his pocket unread. He admits forgetting to mail it, and a brief moment of alarm gives way to relief as he reveals the oversight. The exchange underscores themes of trust and domestic routine.
A Minneapolis clerk Miss Nellie M Tomlinson describes her recovery from scarlet fever kidney weakness and nervous trouble with Williams Pink Pills She details her long illness and improved health after treatment and notes her ability to work as a dry goods store clerk again with renewed vigor.
A fragmented OCR note mentions Mc Ghoolighan's wake with a claim of many confrontations. The line suggests the event was so eventful it appeared in the sport section, implying a lively or disputed gathering.
Mrs Fitz Brown hires a bright Norwegian girl to ease servants duties but learns of her surprising ignorance. In a last effort to instruct, the girl declares her skill in Tecan milk reindeer.
In a humorous exchange Uncle Jethro and Edgar debate spelling rules. Uncle Jethro claims dictionaries are pointless while Edgar questions the conclusion. The pair joke about how they would spell words like hoss and horse petal in rural dialect.
The text lists the only individuals who held the rank of general in the United States Army as George Washington Ulysses S Grant William T Sherman and Philip H Sheridan.
The dialogue notes Falcon plans to stop writing and a sonnet by his, Stubbs, appearing in the puzzle section rather than the children’s page. Penn confirms the last sonnet was published in the puzzle department, not as a feature.
A Chelsea Wisconsin woman Mrs Ella Rice shares relief from two years of bearing down pains headaches backache and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound She reports total cure and encourages others with similar symptoms to try the remedy stating it can relieve suffering.
The People of Porto Rica Porto Rico is only a thirteenth the size of Cuba in area, but it has more than half as many inhabitants. It is the most densely camela of all the West Indian islands, and as proportion of this population is white than is found in any of the other islands in its part of the world. There is a higher grade of intelligence among the Porto Ricans than among the Cubans.
Sudan natives buy clothes cotton goods sugar tea nails chains wire leather false jewelry and iron trinkets from Geneva while Great Britain supplies cotton goods Germany Austria and Italy dominate other articles Germany trades heavily in perfumes a caravan recently departed with 20000 francs of German scents for the natives
Over 22 years the rate of railroad men discharged for excessive liquor use fell from 20 percent to one percent. In the last 25 years the share of men owning their homes rose tenfold.
An old account notes that Chinese mandarins rarely exercise on foot. It highlights the late Nanking viceroy, father of the Marquis Tsene, who walked 1,000 steps daily in his private garden, while mandarins are said never to be seen walking within their domain.
Dix asks if Wederly has a hobby. Wederly calls it insanity. He remarks the friend has been married five times.
Pullman and Tongist service on trains from Sacramento to Ogden and El Paso with chair cars and tourist cars to Chicago St. Louis New Orleans and Washington. Connections in San Francisco with steamship lines to Honolulu Japan China Philippines Central and South America. See agent at Drain station or address.
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