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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
3
Nelly hosts a lunch for the Gerney party at Mrs. Martins home while the cook is away. Guests endure hot pork and cold beef as Emily serves Burgundy. Missteps and apologies surge until Mrs. Martin explains the wine is cooking claret, and the day ends with a lesson in simple hospitality.
A New York Sun piece recounts a visitor’s tale of a stranger’s funeral, handled with care by an undertaker who, it turns out, is an ex preacher. The narrator notes the ease of dying in New York and reflects on strangers and burial customs.
The article explains that all organized living beings belong to the animal kingdom, placing whales in the Cetacea order as mammals with lungs and live births. It notes whales breathe air and suckle young, and suggests their ancestor spent time on land with developing paddler limbs.
The English Bible leads as best selling book and Shakespeare as top author. Charles Dickens follows as the next most popular, with Sir Walter Scott in a solid third. About half a million Dickens volumes sell annually in English editions, not counting American sales.
Consul James Johnson in Algiers estimates about 6,500,000 cultivated olive trees across Algeria's olive provinces.
Fifty years ago two farmers named Marsh conceived a platform on the reaper to lift grain. By autumn they field bound grain twice as fast, creating the Marsh harvester and ushering in the factory system on the farm. It marked the rise of the Big Marsh in agricultural history.
An Irishman by birth from Kurshaw Russia seeks naturalization, telling Clerk John Donovan he lives in Ireland and was away from the old sod for many months. He claims lineage via Armagh County, then asserts he was raised there and learned English, noting his father’s death.
A Grand Central guard struggles with a French speaking passenger and asks bystanders for help. A young girl translates the request about the Boston bound train, claiming four fifty seven could not be rendered in French and finally telling the passenger five o clock, noting French as a funny language.
A typewriter ad claimed Arabic leads in alphabet users, but a semanticist notes that while Arabic speaking populations may outnumber Latin alphabet users, active users of any writing system place English ahead. English dominates mail and newspapers, with about three quarters of mail and most newspapers in English.
Mrs Thomas Dunn of 153 Vine Street Columbus Ohio speaks of ten years of backache misery. She says household tasks exhausted her and she suffered headaches and dizziness until Dean’s Kidney Pills provided quick relief and a permanent cure. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a bar Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Subbubs declares a cribbage quip about a girl while Popley eyeing his hand mentions the sweetest little something in the world in a playful exchange.
The article describes lumbago as rheumatism of the back muscles causing severe low back pain from cold drafts wet feet or damp clothing. It warns of chronic disability if untreated and advises reddening the skin with a flesh brush or flannel rag then applying St Jacobs Oil by gentle friction for quick relief.
The speaker jokes about a difference between a felt slipper and other slippers. The dialogue involves a Little Sister asking and a Little Brother answering with a pun about felt. The exchange plays on the word feel and felt in a humorous domestic moment.
A promotional notice touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers a $100 reward for any untamed case. Includes purchase details and a stray motivational line about friendship.
The Irrigation Department reports hundreds of applications for the public lands mentioned in the last issue. The text references a Cheénerosidy trait and comments on traits of an easy guy as a trait mark.
The advertisement promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a long standing remedy for female ailments. It claims to cure displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities backache and digestive issues and invites women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
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