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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1895
Page
3
An amateurish comic page parades humor and fashion notes with snippets about friendly contests with the Pumpkinville club and a playful scene of an affable stranger at a hotel. It blends light quips on marriage, love, and social mores with a mock dialogue about poker and flirtation.
A collage of humorous exchanges and social vignettes from a late night scene. Characters trade light insults about umbrellas, marriages, and fashion while drifting through opera and city life. Various jokes reference relationships, manners, and common social foibles in a playful, period voice.
Fragmentary notices mix agricultural seed catalog lines with travel promotions and fashion quips. Mentions Salzer Seed Co. La Crosse Wis offering North Winter Wheat and Monster Rye samples. Also references Knights Templar conclave travel by Nickel Plate road and Denver Colorado discovery remark.
A 24 year old man from White Rock Goodhive County Minn recounts years of illness from age eleven, severe pain and bed confinement. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for People with restoring his health after six boxes, enabling him to walk, do chores, and resume duties. The letter promotes the pills and lists price and availability.
Brooklyn tale shows a granddaughter recounting her grandfather’s heated remarks about the country at a hotel dining table. He denies swearing in front of the child, while the youngster recalls him saying domination from the waiter’s rudeness.
A vivid portrait of Salt Water Day on New Jersey’s coast at Sea Girt, a second Saturday in August tradition. Farmers arrive by varied wagons, families unpack picnics, a seaside fair unfolds with booths, games, and sea bathing in costumes. After boatloads of pies, doughnuts, and lemonade, the day ends with a quiet hitching of vehicles as the crowd departs.
The cobra uses a small stone in its mouth to mimic a glowworm. The ruse attracts winged insects, which the cobra preys upon as a dainty dessert of fireflies. The glowing female glowworm lures the insects to the wily snake.
A Pittsburgh physician claims to diagnose ailments by a single hair exam. Two jokers sent him a hair from a bay horse, he prescribed a quirky remedy with a 25 fee, and they paid, only to see a recipe about oats and water and turning horses out to grass. The piece blends jokes and oddities with scattered ad fragments and old-time promotional blurbs from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper.
The report surveys robin legends from Scotland and elsewhere. It notes beliefs that hearing the bird’s song near a sick person brings anxiety and cites a tale of a land of woe where a robin carries water to quench a flaming stream.
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