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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1910
Page
3
A Midwestern businessman and his family faced a week of worry over a missing $50 bill. Suspicion fell on two household members. After the wife applied a porous plaster to the man's back, the bill appeared stuck inside the plaster the next morning, solving the mystery. The report notes contrasts between decisive spirit and the resulting space around him.
A Chicago woman reports being told by doctors that an operation was necessary after severe inflammation and a tumor. After using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound she experienced relief and claimed cure after multiple bottles. The ad extols the remedy as restoring health for women with displacements, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, backache, and related symptoms.
A reproduction of John Adams letters describing July 4 1776 as a historic epoch. Adams predicts the future celebration of independence with devotion and public festivity while acknowledging the costs to sustain the new nation. He expresses faith that posterity will triumph and urges steadfast support for the States.
A breakfast and luncheon plan featuring berries molded cereal salmon croquettes new potatoes cucumbers pocket book rolls coffee and assorted desserts. July fourth dinner includes clams lobster lamb tomato salad cheese straws watermelon and pie with lemonade. Also contains home medical guidance for minor wounds and a detailed lemonade recipe with fruit garnish.
Suggests centerpieces with red geraniums or roses in a glass bowl, white flowers around the base, and blue accents with bluets forget me nots and tissue shaded candles. Adds patriotic touches for tableware, napkins, and cake decorations plus firecracker bonbon boxes and Uncle Sam props.
A community patriotic program on the lawn combines history lessons with music and readings. Families arrange a greened backdrop while honors are given to a Civil War veteran, who shares experiences as children hear stirring songs like The Star Spangled Banner Yankee Doodle and Longfellow referenced lines about the Ship of State.
A Kansas judge faced a wretched prisoner with no relatives besides a deceased wife and her mother. Judge Wofford, noting the man’s dire predicament, proclaimed mercy warranted and extended it, calling him penniless and forsaken while acknowledging the sole kinship his life possessed.
A promotional piece urges would be settlers to move to Central Canada while land is affordable. It highlights rising prices, strong crop prospects, immigration waves, and rail access via Grand Trunk Pacific Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern. It advises consulting government land agents and using maps and literature.
In Iasus off Carla, listeners fled at a market bell while a harper played, except one slightly deaf man. The harper notes the man’s stay, and the man quirks that hearing the bell means the fish market has begun, so he leaves too.
A trained nurse reports applying Resinol ointment twice daily for four weeks to a six months' standing ulcerated leg, which was permanently healed. She also used Resinol on children's faces for eruptions and other needs with satisfactory results. The testimonial is from Mrs Isadore E Cameron of Augusta Maine.
In print dialogue, a character questions war danger while another jokes that Alfred Austin might compose a poem about Roosevelt's visit. The exchange hints at tensions and cultural commentary of the era without detailing any real event.
A fragmentary page notes a mock debate on skillful play in a game, mentions a foul kick to a skull, and parodies patent medicines like Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets and Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. It also jokes about a fashionable girl not being an angel for being stylish.
An adjourned north town council meeting hears a baillie claim he can name drinks blindfolded. He correctly identifies drinks until water test confounds him. A councillor whispers to try water, and the baillie struggles to recall the name, recalling a childhood taste instead.
A Coca Cola promotional booklet offers Casey at the Bat from the 1910 Coca-Cola Baseball Record Book along with schedules and records, plus a pamphlet The Truth About Coca-Cola. Also includes a humorous note about twins born to Mrs. O'Brien with a comic exchange about the stork bringing another brother.
A clergyman conducts a marriage at the parsonage as his son asks if a man must live with all the women he has married. His mother answers that he must live with his wife, prompting further childlike reflection on polygamy.
The speaker cites trusts and monopolies in a humorous montage of wit from famous figures. References include Champ Clark at a Bowling Green dinner and a girl who mutters about an anti crust law. The page also touts Murine remedies and Lonefellow proverbs in a collage of ad-like lines.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe testified before a Massachusetts legislative committee on the milk situation. She stood at the witness table, urged pure milk, called infant life at stake, and demanded fair compensation for producers while calling for justice and mercy toward the infants.
Dissolve Allen's Foot Tabs in water to relieve sore feet, odors, and tenderness. Instantly ease weariness and sweating of inflamed feet and night nervousness. For day comfort, sprinkle Allen's antiseptic powder in shoes. Samples mailed free, or regular size mailed for 2 cents. Address Allen E. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
A collection of quirky lines on speech, lisping, and difficult enunciations. Included are examples like The sea ceaseth and it sufficeth us, and playful mispronunciations by Mithth Elithabeth with a wry note on monotony and looking around for others wants.
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