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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1900
Page
7
An old magazine contest uses a letter puzzle leading to a pun about Akstexal and Miss Nellie Pullen. Stray stories mock a ghoulish twist and the editor notes the English speaking lady’s death would be painful. A Bismarck anecdote quips Wagner’s ego and a cash bottle remark.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for women’s illnesses including nervous tension backaches and menstrual irregularities. It claims direct action on the female system and a long record of cures with thousands of testimonial letters published in the paper.
A collage of excerpts mocks fragile progress and social foibles. Characters debate artifice ego incubators and the limits of invention while private lives collide with public expectations in a stream of witty vignettes and quotations.
A wartime grain shortage report portrays a severe famine in portions of India with at least 69,000 mouths needing aid and a $100,000,000 famine fund mystery. It notes cultural restraint, crop failures, and the humanitarian crisis while highlighting Sir George White as a highly decorated commoner with multiple knighthoods.
A collage of advice from C P Huntingdon urging hard work frugality and savings. It notes a tonic advert and various 19th century product pitches. The piece ends with a Scottish anecdote about the new electric streetcar and a humorous remark about its naming.
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