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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1910
Page
7
Mrs Huey of Galena Kansas describes a year of a growing right side lump believed to be a tumor. After starting Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound the lump broke and passed away, with advice offered to seek further guidance from Mrs Pinkham.
A widowed mother disapproves of her daughter's wealthier suitor whom she has never met. The daughter defends secrecy arguing the mother would approve only by meeting him and fears her insistence on disclosure. The tale reflects parental control and romance in a past era.
Napoleon enters the clubhouse with a deep frown and a temper, lamenting a poor round. Caesar reads the Congressional Record as the pair exchange jests about Baron Münchhausen and the babes on the links.
A mother anxiously awaiting a birth is told by her husband that a crisis may come if their seven year old Bobby does not behave. Bobby answers with a cheeky definition of crisis as a baby of which he is certain. The joke ends with a punchline about the baby’s gender.
A fragment recalls a husband reading his final poem before thousands at a public celebration then wondering aloud whether he was lynched or shot. The remark appears in Leslie's Weekly as a publisher’s question.
Chicago reports the death by gas of Frederick Herman Rabe at 11 East Ohio Street found by landlady Mrs. Agata Kleinsnorg. Aurora notes the wedding of Miss May Emma Wilson to John Armstrong Meeker, a $3,000,000 groom, en route to Europe. Chicago unions discuss wage scales with contractors refuting higher post May 1 pay. Henry Dahl and two sons die by gas as his wife and two daughters escape. A. Richie found dead on Halsted/Congress curb with laundry mark. Cairo guardianship for Henry Salzener’s minor heirs after lynching. Harrisburg tours electric railway hopefuls. Sterling recount shows Rock Falls dry by six. Jacksonville Illinois College wins a debate vs Lake Forest on parcels post. Sterling reports 48 defective ballots mid recount. Greenville inmates escape jail through ceiling hole. Sterling girl Katie Hullinger missing. Casey-Harlan Green dies from carbolic acid.
Thomas C. Shotwell reports from New York on Tafts tariff fight with Canada. He notes 150,000 to 250,000 American farmers may cross into the Canadian northwest by 1910, shifting agricultural power to Canada and risking higher U S meat and wheat prices. He argues the tariff on cattle and wheat should be removed to unite markets.
Frank P. Lewis of Peoria bought what is described as the biggest lot of fancy grade tobacco ever held by a U S factory. The twenty four carloads will supply Lewis' Single Binder Cigars for more than two years, with a premium paid for select tobacco prized as the finest crop in years.
A short tale quotes a child on companionship and bravery. The clippings promote Perry Davis Painkiller and Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup with brief, generic health pitches and a proverb about temperance and pleasure.
A Denver man at City Park’s museum recalls a ruralist who confronted a portrait titled A portrait of BE. H. Smith, by him if. The farmer reads the card and jokes that the painter and subject are one, calling city sellers fools for the mislabeling.
A Boulder Colorado dentist reports success using Resinol on a months-old child with a rash similar to eczema. After giving a sample box to a neighbor, the child showed full recovery in two days. The mother expressed deep gratitude.
A determined entrant scoured the dictionary and earned a year’s Joyful Home subscription after finding a list of 3 000 framed items from Constantinople in the contest.
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