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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1909
Page
3
A dialogue dated December 31 presents Mr A and Mrs A debating resolutions for the new year. He vows to quit cigars and she to limit novels, then they propose shared self-denial and a joint resignation from social clubs to save money. The exchange ends with mutual commitment to begin the year anew.
A New Year message urges courage and faith with the quote fear not for I am with thee. It reflects on lessons from trials, light in darkness, and the value of both trouble and blessing, calling readers to greet the year with cheer and resolve.
The article surveys a booming Canadian West in 1909 with crop yields rising sharply and huge sums expected from wheat oats and barley. It quotes American settlers and Canadian officials praising vast prairie land settlement, rising railway capacity, mill output, and free homesteads while noting large planned investments and favorable laws reflecting a frontier growth boom.
A short tale contrasts a rich woman claiming a fortune of 1 250 000 with a poor but honest man. He asks for marriage to gauge how he feels losing such wealth, and she declines, prompting a pointed reaction about value and desire.
A medical man recommends improving appetite and digestion to restore vitality. In parts of the country the compound is well used. Mix one ounce balmwort with one ounce syrup sarsaparilla in a half pint of whiskey and take a tablespoonful three times daily. Also serves as a tonic and system cleanser.
Miss Martha Sherwood told a teacher's institute that sad and pathetic stories have no place in public schools. She urged humorous tales that provoke hearty laughter to aid growth and foster cheerful, contented men and women.
Legal signing notice dated December 6 1986 sworn before an official, authenticating an unspecified document. The text mentions a hotel or firm name Hall's Catarrh Cure advertisement style and a request to send for more information. Includes a company J Cheney & Co and a postal address fragment.
Dr Rowell likely to push a calendar foot operation in the legislature. Powell predicts instant attempts to move bills, signaling early procedural maneuvering.
An old Buffalo NY drugstore ad promotes eye salve for strain and weak watery eyes from Druggista or Howard Bros. It features quips on money, character, happiness, and social humor about women, hat fashion, and public contentment in a compact, period voice.
The text describes a white pine compound cough syrup to rid congestion. It prescribes taking twenty drops every half hour for four hours then a half to a teaspoonful two to four times daily. It notes giving children a reduced dose by age and suggests cutting out the page to share with a friend.
Following a campaign in Charleston the American tuberculosis exhibition opened another movement in Greenville DC. After January 1 the work moves to Columbia DC during the state legislature session to seek an appropriation to fight tuberculosis. A separate tour has closed in Colorado and is now in Oklahoma with plans to visit Arkansas.
An antiquarian digest includes a sane diet for the elderly favoring vegetables fruit fish eggs some meat and cereals with water between meals and hot water for inactive bodies while avoiding heavy stimulants. A coroner case notes a colored man Samuel Williams inquiring after his own remains in a mourner’s doorway.
A mother warns her five year old about a ghost guarding the jam in a dark closet. Two hours later the child exclaims the ghost has eaten nearly half the jam.
Important to Mothers warns caregivers to examine every bottle of Castoria for the signature of Gear/p 2lide Boat In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Disapproval sparks a social bite as two women exchange icy glances over rival book choices. Miss Cayenne suggests the ladies envy each other’s current novels, revealing a quiet battle of taste in a leisure moment.
An 19th century advert notes Allen's Foot-Ease as essential for worn or tired feet with strong claims of relief. It urges purchase from druggists at 25 cents and features other ads for Hamlin Wis ard Oil and leather goods. It also includes a quip about wisdom and a cigarette brand Binder cigar and fur buyers in St. Louis.
An insurance man plans a dinner surprise for a friend in high insurance circles. When all cigar stands are closed he mails himself a solution by hiding a cigar in his friend’s overcoat pocket. He retrieves it, then learns the friend does not smoke.
The passage notes that in a New York area Nassau and Suffolk counties prayers for prohibition were ineffective, echoing earlier Ohio results. It suggests prayer, like tariffs, is a local concern and shows how communities rely on their own customs for certain political aims.
A terse old bachelor quips that love was hatched in an incubator and raised in an insane asylum, reflecting a clipped and witty line from a bygone era.
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