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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1905
Page
4
A pointed moral paragraph notes praying for a grocer's salvation is wasted when he toils over unpaid bills at night. It echoes that our sins may outshine excuses, and the verse Nothing in my hand I bring is fitting before offering time.
The Minnewawa ranch near Fresno California led by Mrs W N Sherman shows strong home enterprise. The property rose to over five times its original value with 400 workers at peak season. Her direct packing oversight boosted grape carloads by 100 to 500 dollars, proving a woman’s business impact beyond the home. She is also known as a stock raiser and fruit grower with national reputation.
A Kansas City young man dreamed of wearing a red carnation and winning at the races. Friends spread the dream causing several others to wear red carnations at Elm Ridge. As conspirators teased him with a rival dream, the man fled to avoid a setup by book makers.
A Kittery Maine woman recounts a tale of twentieth century enterprise. A boy dug dandelions from her lawn for about an hour then washed them at a pump and returned to sell the batch at 20 cents a peck.
A Kansas City Times quote by the Hon. Alex Appleby cites his view that a child’s brightness often reflects the mother’s attractiveness when the ad mirer is a man, followed by a dismissive note about deeds as creeds.
A California based physician narrates how removing coffee and tea cured his nervous symptoms and blues. He switched to Postum Food Coffee and notes his health improved, recommending parents to use it. The account cites Postum Co. of Battle Creek Michigan as the product source.
Mr Colchester recounts a tale where a sister Margaret and her brother Bob, trapped in a bakery oven, use a postal card and thread to signal for help. The story ends with their rescue by baker Carberry, proving a girl’s wit can save in a tight place.
The obituary note recalls Furnas who died in Lincoln Nebraska on June 1 and tells a tale of a pioneer who subscribed for twenty five copies of his paper and was asked for fifty dollars. The man argued he subscribed only to encourage him, not to pay.
Montreal Herald reports a novelty called hot ice cream a frozen pudding made of vanilla ice cream boiled rice and ginger from San Francisco's Chinese quarter. It is served in tea and chatter rooms where shoppers rest amid bundles and bow windows. The piece humorously contrasts with a witched whisky punch description.
A Baltimore American quip cites lawyers seeking profit from mass torts after scientists claim the vermiform appendix is essential. The satire contrasts a legal boom with consumer pricing disputes over paint from Longman and Martinez in New York, promoting their fifty year history.
A reader testifies after five months of facial eczema that Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent cleared scales and crusts in a month. The shout claims rapid transformation enabling social activity again. Signed I. J. Soth from Brooklyn New York.
In winter budgeting prudence and seasonable food planning are urged with practical advice from Isabel Gordon Curris in the October Delicator. Hallowe en Party Novelties and other culinary topics cover game dishes celery bread and a rice roundelay plus housekeeping notes by Mary Taylor-Ross.
Mrs E T Gould of 914 W Lake St Chicago credits Dean's Kidney Pills with saving her from Brights disease and related ailments after kidney issues caused eye trouble backache dizziness headaches and swelling. She says relief came in 1903 and she has remained well since. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sells pills for 50 cents a box.
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for uterine tumors and wandering pains. It cites letters from women like Shanale D. Fox of Bradford and Luella Adams of Seattle who report tumor reduction or disappearance without surgery and urge other women to seek guidance from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
The government will locate the world’s greatest trout hatchery on the Grand Mesa about twenty five miles north of Delta. Annual fish output will not fall below 25,000,000 within a year after completion. Fish will be distributed across the West.
A farmer answers a critic about restraint and temptation to chase luxuries, noting it is hard to stay content while income rises. The Washington Star quote contrasts contentment with sudden pay raises.
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