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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1906
Page
1
Advertisement pricing lists rates for one square and per line funeral notices, with contract terms available on request. The item notes distribution through the E M Clements Publishing Company at office 122 N Sycamore Street and mentions second class post protection.
A late 1906 letter criticizes President Roosevelt and Cassatt for tariff protection and graft. It denounces the protected class and asserts mass wealth transfer from the public to pro tected barons. The writer mocks urban street names to lampoon political corruption.
An advertisement proclaims Hall's Oatarrh Cure as the only positive remedy for Oatarrh, a constitutional disease. It offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure, asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, and urges sending for testimonials. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Postmaster General’s plea for preferring ex telegraph and messenger boys highlights unskilled youth employment. As boys aged sixteen to eighteen leave school, many fail to gain trades, turning to casual work like golf caddies and errands, with about 60 percent of warehouse male casuals being old soldiers.
The article surveys bootblack stands in the United States, noting thousands of stands and a New York cohort that publishes illustrated catalogs. Prices range from 4 to 225 dollars, with stands for three chairs reaching 110 or 225, including marble and brass finishes, and variants for women’s shoes.
Old Suffolk parish records cite a 1534 statute from Queen Mary’s era noting an increase in lawyers serving Norfolk and Suffolk. It states eight attorneys then grew to more than alguty, prompting a limit of six for Norfolk, six for Suffolk, and two for Norwich to curb frivolous claims and frequent small trespasses.
England has twenty eight cows per hundred people while Australia lists 280. A daily intake of about 299 oysters would be needed to supply sufficient nourishment for one person.
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