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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
5
Practical Fashions No 3379 advises buying muslin by the piece to save money since leftovers can be repurposed. It stresses that a garment’s final look hinges on careful detail work especially with inserting.
Instructions describe trimming seams and finishing edges for a night drawers pattern No 8379 with bishop or plain sleeves. The five size pattern requires 25 yards of 27 inch fabric or 1% yards of 36 inch fabric plus edging. Send 10 cents and size number to this paper office with name and address.
TY KITCHEN APRON pattern No 5892 presents a cost effective dress protection. Ample skirt, shoulder fastening with pearl buttons, and top covering blouse. Bishop slip sleeves with elastic fit slip over to guard against dust. Seven sizes 32 to 44 inches, about 3% yards of 36 inch material for the average person.
Geologists report markings on a strangely marked stone found in Colebrooke Devonshire may be from rats grinding their teeth. They note rats can starve if their teeth grow too long. The tale contrasts with India’s average wheat yield stated at about 11% bushels per acre.
An athletic college student writes to his father promising to distinguish himself by hammer throwing. The father, angry and old, refuses to read about such antics and warns that any broken windows will be the son’s responsibility to pay for.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh at all stages. It is described as a constitutional treatment that works through the blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer $100 to any case it fails to cure and urge sending for testimonials. Sold by all druggists, 75 cents, with Hall's Family Pills for constipation recommended.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote recalls a Boston girl on a streetcar calmly handling an unwanted advance from a young man who clung to the end of her muff. The piece blends local color with a moral about restraint and urban manners. Also promoted is Sloan's Liniment with a testimonial from J. P. Hubbard of Marietta praising its neuralgia relief and general use.
A fragment from a dialogue features Iry Blobb and a wife refusing to cry for the best man. The exchange covers marriage beliefs, fidelity, and divorce. A joke about a shoemaker compares him to a heeler, noting he sticks to the last as a virtue.
Charles Von Soehnen of Colfax Washington reports thirty years of kidney trouble with back pain and rheumatism. Frequent kidney secretions troubled him for fifteen years until Dean's Kidney Pills provided near total relief. Sold by all dealers 650 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
In a fragment from a Boston page, Aunt Hester asks about party rituals while Emerson Highhed dismisses the oscillatory pastimes as childish. The brief exchange hints at social behavior and youth conduct without explicit detail.
The John A. Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin advertises a mail order offer with 12 cents postpaid for seeds and a large plant catalog. Readers may receive Quick Quick Carrot Earliest Ripe Cabbage La Crosse Market Lettuce Early Dinner Onion Strawberry Muskmelon Thirteen Day Radish Earliest Emerald Cucumber and Berliner Earliest Cauliflower plus 35 bushel-equivalent seed and thousands of flowers.
A Bronx widow had her husband Henry Brown exhumed at Woodlawn Cemetery to obtain a photograph. Brown, a train dispatcher on the One Hundred and Twenty ninth street elevated line, died December 6 of rheumatic gout and was buried. After about three weeks, officials granted permission and a photographer, an undertaker, and the body were brought up for portraits.
In a light exchange the guest asks for oyster stew while the waiter confirms oysters are in season. The ledger notes diners request the dish and the waiter affirms its availability.
A doctor reports that after trying Postum instead of coffee, his wife noticed families using Postum appeared better in summer and country homes. Since their marriage two years ago, Postum replaced coffee and tea for guests, with old digestive complaints vanishing. The testimony is attributed to Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, The Road to Wellville. There's a Reagon.
Representative Birdsall of Iowa protests high Washington rentals during the congressional season. He compares himself to an Irish farmer who built an addition, insisting the assessor’s valuation is proper. The farmer’s neighbor questions extravagance, but Pat aims to keep the assessed value as stated.
Mrs Lily Hedge of Camberwell Green England reports her son Owens suffering from eczema from age three months to fifteen years, with constant agony and hospitalizations. After trying many remedies, she credits Cutiura Remedies started six months ago with a remarkable full recovery. The letter ends with advice against debt and a playful note on a burglar.
An OCR fragment advertises Brown's Bronchial Traches claiming a world wide reputation for curing coughs sore throats and bronchitis and asthma. It also mentions Lewis' Single Binder Cigar and a milkman joke. The copy hints at dealer or factory references and a line about men avoiding payments by kicking.
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