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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1901
Page
6
A 19th century sermon celebrates national Thanksgiving amid harvest triumphs and industrial progress. It praises farming, mining, and printing as divine gifts, recalls historical religious liberty, and urges growth of schools and churches while warning against vice and misrule.
The New York Sun notes fashionable women and jewelers contending over long chain designs. Diamonds and cabochon gems dominate, with gold chains featuring various pendant stones. Paris adds extravagant, yet sometimes less costly, options. cold baths and morning routines are discussed by Emma J E Walker in Ladies' Home Journal.
The Edinburgh Scotsman notes that if wives and husbands stopped trying to cure each other and instead focused on self improvement, homes would be happier. It argues scolding wives waste energy trying to fix husbands, while some husbands focus on changing wives rather than addressing their own faults.
A Washington tar recounts President Arthur as the best dressed man he ever saw at the White House. The attendant notes Arthur changed shirts and suits multiple times daily during social season, wore Jow-quartered shoes with silk strings, kept 50 plus pairs of shoes and 100 shirts, and owned over a hundred pieces of workwear while being kind to servants and staff.
A brief, humorous column notes true piety lies in how people treat Saturday night chin up routines. It observes sane folk call Saturday night tub night, washing and feeling elevated into Monday, contrasting weekday wear with Sunday attire. A stray rhyme hints at moonshine mischief and a proposed marriage misunderstanding.
A downtown Salvation Army corps captain reports a troubled exchange with a woman in his flock. The woman replies with a sharp, sarcastic note accusing the group of not meeting or praying, ending with a defiant sign of derision toward religious practice.
The caller praised the iCookT proprietor and his team as they backed a friend facing unemployment. The remark included a boast about producing four squab pies from a single pigeon, noted in the Chicago Tribune.
A large railroad plans to replace coal with a new locomotive fuel while endorsing Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. After fifty years of trial the product is claimed to relieve dyspepsia congestion constipation and flatulence with any fair trial. Ensure you obtain the genuine article.
A fragment from an era travel piece praises Lackawanna Limited service from New York to Buffalo, noting comfortable travel and mountain scenery. It reflects period humor about a traveler’s linen and a New Jersey man’s desperate family plan. Mentions “Pike’s” drops and a Philadelphia recon nugget.
An assortment of old time prose and ads mentions St Jacob s Oil for chest colds and croup, praises its healing and soothing properties, and touts Nickel Plate Road travel ads with mentions of low fares and dining car service. The text includes a romantic aside and stray notes on travel and etiquette.
Fragmented ad text promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a 10 cent bowel regulator and Putnam Faceless Dyes for hair dye. Includes garbled phrasing about health, cosmetics, and medicine with references to imitations and a jab at a daily news phrase. Mentions “Beware of imitations” and generic sale claims without clear context.
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