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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1895
Page
3
A jumble of dialogue and clipped news items from an old paper. Travers and Dashaway debate charity and pride while references to a Be a beaming examiner and a scattered ledger of numbers hint at varied stories.
A child's demand for more chicken prompts a playful wish bone game with Frances and her mother. A job-seeking man in spring visits a suburban home, offering to help in the greenhouse while asking for a cigar to smoke out pests.
A collage of anecdotes from society pages and magazines, noting misread names like Mackay Smith and Laura’s talking, plus quotes from clergy and readers. It glances at misapplied phrases, rival titles, and playful vanity in public commentary with a humorous, gossiping tone.
A Albany Journal brief recounts a public school teacher illustrating the meaning of slowly by walking, prompting pupils to shout an insult at the foot of the class. The moment ends with a humorous outcry about bow-leggedness. The clip includes other humorous quotes from Chicago Tribune and Washington Star columns.
Mrs Coulter recounts a long medical ordeal spanning years with paralysis facial deformity and failed remedies until Williams Pink Pills. She credits the treatment with restoring her facial expression and curing paralysis and notes her child recovered from St Vitus dance after using the pills.
A collage of Brights: a temperance lecture line from the Town Topic, light quips about travel and jokes, a New York Records item, a Washington Star jab at horse racing, and an extended feature on De Kalb Fence Company touting barbless wire fencing facts, output, and catalogue offer.
A courtroom transcript shows the judge probing the gap in a couple's relationship. O'Mally, using stilted speech, claims marriage altered after illness causing tension and a limit on affection. The dialogue reflects a tense domestic dispute entering legal discussion.
A humorous dialogue notes a Masonite thermometer reading thirty three degrees as high as it can go while Hiram questions its accuracy in a casual exchange.
Ruth Ashmore in the Ladhew Home Journal argues that a marriage built on love is essential. Comradeship and friendship cannot bear the trials of doubt and hardship, she says, urging readers to place love as the foundation of life or risk a fragile, unfulfilled union.
The article emphasizes using suitable, good quality materials for embroidery. It recommends a fine round linen foundation, or sheer linen with a colored silk or satin underlay, and warns against folding linen as creases ruin flatness. Filo selle silk, six strands split to use one strand for flowers and two for stems, and the long and short Kensington stitch are advised to achieve smooth curves and precise forms.
A major source of caffeine in England comes from tea sweepings collected from floors of London docks wharves and warehouses. About 675000 pounds of tea annually, plus dirt nails hoop iron and wood, total roughly 400 tons with loss to importers around 125000 dollars. Sweepings include good tea and higher caffeine content. cost to chemists about half a cent per pound.
A hotel clerk praises a lawyer as the most honest man he knows. The landlord asks why. The clerk explains the lawyer sits up in a chair asleep at night, claiming after work he should not be in bed.
A rider on a high wheel toppled over in an accidental header while passing a sidewalk. After dusting himself off he heard two boys on the curb urging him to try again, noting he had not seen the fall.
The first national woman’s suffrage convention gathered in Seneca Falls, N Y, marking a pivotal moment in U S suffrage history. Delegates discussed rights, organized petitions, and laid the groundwork for future campaigns advancing women's voting access.
Mastara tetam recounts a tale where an Indian chief, bashfully swallowing mustard, sheds tears as he recalls his son killed in battle. Another chief follows suit, weeping for his rival’s survival and the loss it implies, a stark exchange about sacrifice and kin in war.
Fragmentary OCR text presents disjointed lines about notable figures and dialogue. It references Mr Cynic, the phrase what was his abetsinent Inquiry, and a vague mention of Van Braam while discussing clothes and a best girl remark, with no coherent event or clear entities to anchor a factual summary.
A quirky mix of ads and notes appears. Items include California Fig Syrup Co. remedy claims, Northern Pacific promotions, hunting notes for moose and deer, a brief on irrigation and fruit growing, and a Boston man’s claim of a carbon-avoidance light invention.
A garbled OCR page combines testimonials for Hall's Catafr Cure and Piso's Cure for Consumption with scattered references to products, prices, and unrelated moral sayings. It includes mentions of Medina New York vendors and stray lines about horses, teeth, salves, and Persia, all in a disjointed format.
A carp in Germany reportedly aged seven years with a ring in its jaw notes a water location. Doubts persist that many carps live beyond a hundred. An English collection once housed a black Vassa parrot from Madagascar dying at fifty four. Geese and parrots show notable longevity with ages sixty seven and over. A cockatoo at Philadelphia Zoo was over 100, a Paris parrot reached 108, ravens in France exceed a century, and smallpox is absent in Patagonia.
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