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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1903
Page
3
Poem in which a father returns home to the sight of his children and a wife awaiting him. The speaker imagines his old age and death, praying that even then the family heartily greets him with love. A line from a Catholic Standard and Times publication anchors the piece.
Gabe, a 25 year old with dreams of ease, faces pressure from Cooner to marry Mary Bet. To win Bet and keep the land, he manipulates Bill Tanner, trading for ten acres and a potato patch. After a tense two weeks, Gabe stages a plan, helps Bill and Bet, and at the wedding turns up smiling, hair cut for the occasion, as Maryret thanks him for freeing Bet from her father's control.
Residents of Mamaroneck New York led by Father Meister form the Washington Rock association to preserve a rock feature bearing a large likeness of George Washington. Believers propose a bronze tablet dedication on October 21, 1904, marking the Heathcote Hill battle anniversary near the old Cooper house.
A Cleveland woman obtained an injunction to stop her husband from eating at her table, forcing him to seek meals via a free lunch route.
An English scientist warns that excessive soap harms skin while American roadside scientists cheer his stance as prudent for health. The exchange highlights differing approaches to hygiene and public health messaging in a cross Atlantic debate.
Maj. Sylvester, superintendent of the Washington police, warns that cocaine use is rising among the city’s lower classes. He urges immediate, strong measures to curb sales by druggists and notes the drug’s spread to morphine chloral and patent medicines. He says police lack power to raid opium dens beyond disorderly conduct and fines are too light to stop the scourge.
Milwaukee judge Halsey ruled that a newspaper may critique an artist’s work without attacking the person. Paul Kupper sued John M. Handley over a critic’s remark that Kupper’s horse statue model resembled bovine features. The court found the criticism privileged and not actionable.
Brain fever is rapidly becoming a fatal disease when it is accompanied by delirium tremens.
The Troy Times urges Democrats to study Messages and Papers of the Presidents from December 1885. It recalls U S actions in Colombia during civil war to keep transit open across the Isthmus of Panama, resist port closures, and maintains Grover Cleveland directed those steps, arguing against Democratic opposition to the administration’s policy.
The article notes Grover Cleveland is out of the race with no support or attachments to withdraw. It discusses likely successors like Parker, Hill, Whitney, and the rising chance for Arthur Pue Gorman, while contrasting opinions from San Francisco Chronicle and Des Moines Register and Leather.
A New Yorker recalls a pastor’s odd prayer scene at a club. The tale contrasts two humorous church moments when prayers veered into strange wording and symbolic imagery.
In Valley City North Dakota December reflections recall how Mrs Matilda M Boucher found relief from dizziness and bilious attacks with Dodd’s Kidney Pills and Diamond Dinner Pills. She later credits these medicines for recovery from severe Sciatica after a January 1903 episode and notes widespread popularity in Barnes County among families.
A collection of short quotes and ads from 1900 includes Stopa the Conch and laxative tablets priced at 25 cents, and Piso's Cure for Consumption advertised as infallible. It features lines about nobility, fame, confidence, and a note from N W Samuel of Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 17, 1900.
Admiral Schley, renowned hero of the nineteenth century, endorses Peruna the national catarrh remedy after a friend asked his opinion. He notes Peruna is used in his family and claims it cures catarrh in all forms and locations. The ad promotes testimonials from notable figures and invites readers to request free literature from The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co. in Columbus Ohio.
Johnny Drummer recalls a vivid memory of the luxurious California Limited train and its plush parlor cars, contrasting travel today with the hardships of 1849. He envies the ease of modern rail journeys, imagining future trips to California aboard the Santa Fe line.
A brief Punch quotation captures Mrs Homeleigh asking about her husband at a club and Lady Gadabout replying that the poor boy dislikes being home alone, illustrating social wit in a light domestic scene.
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