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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
2
A health article by Harriet Coates discusses how tight corsets cause organ displacement and poor digestion. It prescribes natural activity and specific exercises in standing and kneeling positions to stimulate abdominal muscles, improve motility, and alleviate congestion.
Franz Mendel, an 83 year old German resident of St. Louis County, lives in a flat upright piano box on his land. The improvised home is covered with asbestos and tar paper, with an interior bed and cupboard shelves. Mendel travels daily for water and wood, rejecting city life for rural solitude as curious travelers stop to learn about his unusual shelter.
A white paille de riz hat features a high crown wrapped in plaited lace and adorned with three large tea roses on one side.
English readers disdain wearing rubber overshoes despite heavy rain. The passage notes both men and women show an enduring reluctance to don waterproof footwear.
The guide describes placing the coffee pot and tea kettle on a tray before the hostess, positioning the tea kettle at the plate head and the coffee pot on the right. It explains filling the coffee pot, adding coffee, lighting the burner, and serving coffee black with cream and whipped cream in miniature pitchers.
Cretonne remains popular this season for evening coats and vests and now appears on morning wear parasols. Designs stay small with a plain wooden handle while heavy cotton fringe decorates the border.
Mary Garden, famed prima donna, contrasted old fashioned operas with new works like Thais Louise and Pelleas et Meisande during the Richard Mansfield sale. She joked that modern opera emphasizes vivid character portrayal while past shows relied on vocal fireworks and trills.
A report notes Queen Alexandra of England Queen Maude of Norway the czarina and the queen of Portugal all favor typewriters for intimate correspondence. Carmen Sylvia queen of Roumania surpasses them by rapidly typing poems and stories on the machine.
In her husband's library the empress of Japan examined a type writer and, after learning how it works, began to use it. She has shown interest and reportedly does much of the emperor’s correspondence.
A column of miscellaneous quips and noted quotes includes a punch about a practical husband who copies his poetry into letters for his wife. It promotes Defiance Starch for lighter, stronger laundry application and prints a joke about Romulus founding Rome and Remus’s interruption calling the new city a Butte.
An article explains that deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining and that only constitutional remedies can restore hearing. It claims nine cases arise from catarrh and promises one hundred dollars for any deafness cure not achieved by Hall's Catarrh Cure, urging readers to request circulars from F J Cheney & Co.
A doctor tells a patient not to worry about small things. The patient counters that marrying a widow with six children makes avoiding worry difficult, highlighting a humorous dilemma.
In this old ad a powder named Allen's Foot-Ease promises relief for painful smarting feet nervous feet and ingrowing nails It claims to make new shoes comfortable and offers a trial package free Sold by all druggists 25c no substitutes Ad dress A 3S Olmsted Le Roy NY Shakespeare quotation included
A reflective aphorism notes that today’s disappointments can become tomorrow’s blessings, attributing the idea to Thomas a Kempis.
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