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Newspaper
Saco Independent
Location
Saco, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
6
A man jokes about his wife hauling bathroom items home while a friend questions toothpowder. He claims the tub cleanser and “scrub my teeth” are safe because they are the kind you buy at the dentist, shocking his companion on Chestnut Street.
A girl on Thanksgiving morning says she is thankful for a big turkey dinner and no school. When asked if she is thankful for Papa and Mama as well she replies she can be thankful for them any way.
The article notes Guillermo Billinghurst becoming Peru’s president, a native born in Ario 1851 but from an old English family. It highlights his unique status as the first Englishman elected to a presidency in a Latin republic, with Legula as vice president and Roberto E. Legula as first vice president. It also mentions the Red Cross seals campaign and projected funds.
Mrs Charles H Israels leads a 17 member committee on amusement resources for working girls. She argues supervised dance halls are profitable and proposes model halls in eastern cities to replace turkey trot style dancing. She highlights gangs and white slave traffic as risks in the dance hall system and has traced several gangs operating hundreds of public dances.
Washington reports Col. John S. Mosby is seriously ill. Mosby, famed Confederate raider in the Civil War, led raids in the Shenandoah Valley and Sheridan’s 1864 campaign, harassing Union lines from Baltimore to Front Royal. His later service under the U.S. government remains a historical curiosity.
Dr Wang, Yale educated veteran of battles that toppled an empire, argues the new China is like a United States. He speaks in Boston at the fifth international congress of chambers of commerce and praises China's modernization and railway links while calling Americans to see China as an emerging power.
Miss Pansy Hutchins of Sioux Falls describes a two year facial rash that worsened at night with itching. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment as directed, symptoms largely vanished within two days and fully cleared in four weeks. She notes success on scalp and hair as well.
The Parson asks if prayer is said regularly and Rastus replies he says prayers every night and sleeps in a folding bed now.
A teacher asks Johnny to use defeat in a sentence. After about twenty minutes he reads a composition in which he uses dialect to describe shoes that fit too tightly and hurt his feet. The piece ends with the line about shoes being hard on the feet.
A young woman credits Grape-Nuts with curing illness and rheumatism after two years of indigestion. She gains weight, now feeling well, and says she eats Grape-Nuts twice daily. The ad cites health claims and the pamphlet Road to Wellville.
Dialogue fragment shows two speakers discussing one’s health, with no named entities, organizations, places, dates, or outcomes to summarize as a newspaper item.
A fragment notes a farmer scolding a boy at a hedge line with tension hints. The boy prepares to run, replying that no fuss occurred, while the Weekly Telegraph is the source of the remark.
A humorous line highlights old fashion dating norms with a quip about a girl fleeing to attract a suitor while wearing a hobble skirt. The remark plays on gender roles and fashion of the era.
An advertising blurb touts Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a sugar coated remedy that regulates and invigorates the stomach liver and bowels. The copy presents the product as a simple easy to take candy like granule.
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