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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
2
Edward Payson Weston laments walking's decline in Chicago, noting a boy asking what a pedestrian is and calling them rowdy when an automobile hits them. In another exchange a job seeker recalls five years as an apprentice unpaid, then reveals learning trade in Sing Sing prison, prompting a sharp employer remark.
A passenger asks what is wrong as a train stops in green fields. A brakeman replies candidly that a cow on the track caused the delay, and an hour later the train stalls again for the same reason.
Representative McCall of Massachusetts and Representative Williams of Mississippi discuss violence against Black people. Williams replies with a grim anecdote about a Mississippi man injured by a mule, illustrating the cruelty implied in the exchange.
A Brooklyn woman proverbially misleads a servant who is praised as a model in all respects yet not truthful. The mistress urges Nora to abandon deceit with eloquence but Nora defeats her by a cheerful Irish retort, highlighting the power of desavin she claims was given to them.
A New York lawyer recalls Littleton Martin W. Littleton, leading counsel in the Thaw case, remarking at a dinner that Brink’s mouth signals his brain’s failure. He compares him to a Missouri steamer with a short whistle that signals it stops when it blows.
A fragment from Everybody's Magazine recalls a Roceever's Rough Riders anecdote about a Dutch Jewish rider praised for coolness in battle and a fatalist quip about dodging bullets. The piece shifts to a facetious Thanksgiving exchange where Uncle Mose laments dark nights and a turkey theft by a white neighbor.
A young man in a railroad office kissed the typewriter in his first week. The boss asked if he was paid to kiss it. The clerk replied that he wasn’t paid. he would do it for nothing.
Miss Flora McIntyre a University of Chicago junior studying bees in California earns through rearing queen bees. She writes magazine articles on beekeeping and sold queens at a dollar each. Her work funds her education, impresses entomologists, and supports her research value.
Fifteen minutes of slashing with canes outside the city ended when one fighter stepped beyond the ring. The match, staged by technical high school students to end deadly weapon duels, left both contestants battered and prompted university circles to weigh nonce sword traditions against the new cane challenge.
Victor Stef ansson, the first ethnologist to study the primitive north Alaskan Eskimos, returns to New Westminster with an account of two years among them. The Eskimo practice trial marriages, with no formal ceremony or fixed betrothal. couples may part if not congenial, and girls may marry several times before settling. After two years, tribal divorces are unknown and middle-aged couples grow more attached.
London reports a Maidavale painter’s son, age eight, with a black mustache and a striking bass voice. Discovered by a district organist who plans to train him for public singing. The bashful boy is large for his age, dark, with a protruding forehead. His voice broke at seven and doctors once labeled him a natural freak after years of medical visits. His mother refuses to shave the mustache, trimming it with scissors.
In Cleveland Ohio attorney Walter K Thompkins a Princeton graduate with offices in the Williamson building began a long distance romance with Miss F KB Grace Wilson daughter of Mr and Mrs H K Wilson They married by long distance telephone the ceremony conducted by Rev E C Wilson pastor of the Christian church at Shelby The couple’s first conversations over the wire impressed Thompkins with Miss Wilsons voice as they pursued a brief courtship and then wed by wire
The text explains White Lead as a global standard paint material made by corroding metallic lead into a white powder and mixing with linseed oil. It warns about adulterated mixes and describes a blow pipe test to prove purity, offering a free blow pipe kit and booklet from the National Lead Company in New York.
A hypnotist argues churchgoers sleep not from drowsiness but hypnotic auditory influence. He describes sermon and music as a scientific hypnotic instrument affecting the brain via sound waves. The piece also includes brief comic anecdotes about opera seating and a couple’s cigars.
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as ideal for aging digestion, claiming small, nourishing meals support brain and nerve development. It cites a 74-year-old entrepreneur, a 92-year-old customer, and improved digestion, mental clarity, and regularity, urging use with Postum and referencing The Road to Wellville.
The Red Bank resident Shepard Kollock, at age 98, claims 40 years of kidney trouble vanished after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He recalls nightly awakenings and painful kidney secretions but now reports complete relief. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. Origin of the Elevator Traced to Central Europe with Napoleon I noting a flying chair in Schoenbrunn built around 1760 for Empress Maria Theresa.
An 1907 testimonial from W H Dean of Newark Delaware details seven years of severe eczema on his hands. After trying numerous remedies he says the first box of Cuticura Ointment and one cake of Soap cured his hands, with two boxes and the soap used. The piece also includes miscellaneous anecdotes and ads from the era.
Two officers hunting wolves on Dry mountain in central Servia lost their way in fog. After 14 hours one officer collapsed in snow. His partner bound him, seated him, and rolled him down the slope to safety. The rescuer reached the bottom unharmed, while the injured officer was found an hour later and hospitalized for abrasions.
A collage of 19th century snippets includes a clairvoyant seance scene, a casual critique of a grammar guide, and an advertisement for Castoria. The page blends humorous quips, diet notes from Bulgaria, literary trivia, and product pitches, reflecting a miscellany style with multiple familiar quotes and vendors.
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