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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1909
Page
4
An American engineer visiting Burma reports Burmese cigarettes are enormous and mostly corn husk leaves. He notes each cigarette lasts a day for a smoker or an entire family, with women often smoking and even sharing with children. He calls them practically harmless but insipid in flavor.
The excerpt recounts Benedello Marcello a famed Venetian composer falling for Leonora Manfrotti who wed Paolo Seranzo. After Leonora dies in a jealous marriage Marcello steals her corpse to a ruined island crypt where he mourns. Leonora’s twin Hiade learns the truth aids a substitution revival illusion ends with Marcello marrying Miradle and dying soon after.
The article recalls a mother in a large family who died of starvation after feeding her children. The physician asserts the cause was the long hours of tending meals for straggling kids, with chickens eating before the children, leaving her exhausted and unfed. She sacrificed her own hunger to care for her family.
A humorous exchange recalls a colonel describing the hardest moment of his life. He sought his wife’s father’s permission to wed, but the man was very deaf, forcing him to explain the matter before twenty clerks.
Longcloth priced at 8 cents from 12 cents. Bed quilts at 91 cents from $1.25. Work gloves reduced from $1.00 to 79 cents. Muslin drops from 7 cents to 5 cents. Table oil cloth from 20 cents to 16 cents. Eggs paid at 20 cents today with potential higher prices.
Jewelry and clocks offered with stock enough to supply all shoppers. Watches priced at 1.00 5.00 10.00 20.00. Clocks priced at 1.00 1.50 5.82 8.75. Total value noted as 700 dollars.
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