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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1900
Page
2
For your reception or party we offer the latest ice creams and ices. Our reception rolls, cheese straws, and Vienna rolls are made to order and suited for entertaining friends. We also feature taffy and caramels made daily.
A distressed scene unfolds around a threat of mortgage foreclosure. A Westerner recalls a hopeful sale as fear and pride clash. The narrative hints at a looming calamity and the plan to cure it with a patent medicine ad ends the fragment.
An article cites a New York doctor predicting bread could be abolished as a staple within years. Physicians increasingly recommend abstinence from bread for dyspepsia gout and rheumatism, arguing hygienic substitutes fall short. The piece tracks rising concern over bread’s health impact and public shift toward other foods while noting skepticism from some wheat advocates.
Clinton Scallard writes in Harper's Warde of love and partition. The speaker asks for a private corner of his beloved’s heart to be wholly theirs, while acknowledging the rest rightly belongs to the other. The fragment hints at emotional yearning and the desire for exclusive access within a shared bond.
A period voice piece recalls skill and effort in shaping success through labor. An inventor-like tale describes throwing stones to measure aim, noting lessons on persistence, adjustment, and personal growth. The narrative shifts to anecdotes about Nansen and a domestic vignette on marriage, mixing travel lore with daily life.
A collection of jumbled anecdotes from a barge office on shipboard courtship. A Russian bride, a Swedish maiden, and two captious lovers spark dramatic misunderstandings as one man’s appeal for a receipt leads to a comic misadventure. Also includes travelers’ tales on diet, superstition, and a sea captain’s seaweed anecdote.
A reader from the publishing house tells the rising author the latest work seems dry. The author quips that 300 pages would count, noting the heroine cries across 233 pages. Clore land Plain Dealer.
A described varnish formulation offers a transparent coating that resists water and provides high gloss. It is said to be adaptable to metal objects, shaw ti sytins, and could be used for a variety of coloring matters.
A fragment from a 1910s lifestyle column discusses practical kitchen tips and a women's luncheon. It mentions the author Lida Ames Willis and hints at guidance for busy housewives balancing office, children, and meals, with emphasis on simple, economical meals and the chafing dish trend.
The narrative recounts the Bull's Head tavern near the Bowery, its tenants during the Revolution, and Henry Astor's rise as a butcher who built a poultry road trust by buying cattle from drovers. The Inn and business flourished until 1828 when the Bowery theater replaced the tavern.
The king of Naples tours his prisons in a display of absolute power asking inmates about their sentences and alleged crimes. A prisoner answers fifteen years and protests innocence, while the monarch questions the severity of punishment and the justice of each case.
A king questions two criminals, noting one is numbered 912 and claiming innocence for the others, while the jailed man curses flagrant crimes. The exchange reveals a governor’s grim verdict that one man corrupts others, amid a dramatic stance on justice and guilt. The second piece mocks aquariums and animal behavior, contrasting human fascination with water life and the indifferent sea of spectators.
A Harper's Weekly excerpt notes the Paris cabbies’ pride in recovering lost items from public carriages. It contrasts a humorous scene with Professor Counterfast, whose dialogue mocks mind over matter as a witty exchange about a woman’s weight and a brainy innkeeper.
Louisville Courier Journal recalls Ballard Smith's first newsroom entry after Dartmouth. He wore silk tile and velvet, sought dramatic editor, joined the Jonah staff, and within six months rose to city editor. The note cites his rapid journalism work and a quip about a Baltimore woman’s funeral for her pet monkey.
An account from a Franco Prussian War fragment describes a battle scene with cannon fire and infantry advances. The report recalls troops advancing through smoke and chaos, the Prussian lines wavering then pressing forward, amid vivid, though fragmentary, battlefield imagery and a quivering moment of discipline. The excerpt ends with a medic’s comment on cough remedies and a sales pitch from a druggist.
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