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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1903
Page
6
A brief item notes that the Pension Commissioner Ware is identified as Mr Wade by the Jacksonville Times Union and as Mr Eugene Wait by the Portland Press, highlighting name inconsistencies in reports.
Mulhall Sioux City Iowa ad text offers cultivation cash at four dollars per acre with balance crop till paid. The fragment mentions hiding a family skeleton and a neighbor search in a suspicious, unclear promotional line.
The piece extols daily baths in tepid water with Ivory Soap for clean soft skin. It recommends morning or before bed, and ends with a quoted signature Eleanor R Parker. A closing adage notes death and undertakers.
In every household, none go good, besides 4 or more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. The road to prosperity goes right past the saloons without stopping.
An advert promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tiblets claiming cure for four colds in one day with a money back guarantee. It states price is 25 cents and that an honest dealer uses the same scales for buying and selling.
The American Falls Canal & Power company builds an 85 foot wide, 60 mile long irrigation canal on Idaho’s west Snake River flank between Blackfoot and American Falls. When complete it will reclaim 100000 acres of fertile land with a favorable climate, abundant crops, and strong markets. Tickets to Blackfoot via Oregon Short Line offered. Evans Curtis & Sweet Co. solicits land buyers with favorable terms.
Nostalgic ad promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children in New York serving Summer Complaint Feverishness Headache and Worms with 25c price and free sample by mail. Also includes a tobacco ad for Lewis' Sinder cigars claiming superior quality and urging spectacles wearers to act. Local line ends with a proverb about prophecies.
Greatly reduced rates offered by the Wabash Railroad for home visitors excursions to Indiana Ohio Kentucky with specific sale dates in Sept Oct and half fare for Baltimore Little Rock Detroit trips. Homeseekers excursions to South and Southeast with one way and round trip tickets on the first and third Tuesdays monthly. Also promotes routes via Omaha and notes luxury equipment on trains and no bus transfers with the World’s Fair view.
The notice praises All Up to Date Housekeepers for using Defiance Cold Water Starch claiming better cleaning. It asserts 4 oz more for came money and dismisses theories that fail in practice.
A dialogue reveals two families discussing an engagement. Winkle and his fiancée appear mismatched, with both sides deeming the match unsuitable. Griggs questions the reasoning as the conversation unfolds.
One hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. J Cheney & Co props Toledo Ohio. Endorsed by Werap, Truax wholesale druggist, and Marvin wholesale druggist. Cure taken internally, acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 7 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills recommended.
Advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into shoes to rest feet and cure swollen sore hot calloused aching and sweating feet and ingrowing nails. Claims easier wear of new or tight shoes and offers free samples by mail from Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York. Also notes value of politeness.
A discussion on the evolving field of advertising as a literature form. Ads blend history story verse and local color with vivid phrases and personality. Officials note advertisements carry humor and character. one generation writes epic the other an ad.
An old advert touts Ball Blue powder with Red Cross branding and a large two ounce package priced at five cents. The copy adds a social note about knowing people well enough not to know them.
An advertisement touts Defiance Starch as the way to best results and notes a money saving option with four or more. It also defines a straight ticket as one with all crooked candidates left off.
An old-time ad snippet promotes Defiance Starch promising whiter clothes at 10 cents for 16 oz. The text also includes unrelated testimonials about Pise's Cure and a note on yacht racing standards for fast colors.
A grocer ad notes Red Cross Ball Blue keeps yellows away and whites bright. Large 2 oz packages sell for 5 cents. The copy hints that women given to hysterics have their own way.
Advertising copy promoting Defiance starch offering a 16 ounce package for 10 cents. Claims the product is a reliable choice with the slogan Once used always used.
A traveler describes an unusual village sight a battered empty house bearing the word Saturday and a pane sign advertising shave six cents and hair cut ten cents The barber is a young farmer who visits three villages on Saturdays to serve men and farmers The piece ends with musings on Welsh rarebit halos and women and heaven
A mouse hidden in a New York auto seats caused a woman to scream and a driver to crash toward a fence to avoid a cliff. The animal Mamie Dooley with a green ribbon belongs to a rich contractor linked to Tammany leadership and sparked sensational press talk.
Estill Springs Tennessee resident C D Holt attributes two years of back illness and inability to lace shoes to kidney troubles. After using three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills he reports a full recovery and urges others to use the remedy. His friends texted questions about his sudden improvement and Holt emphasizes the medicine's genuine benefit.
Doris Hirschel Cohen, a Londoner staying at the Westminster in Los Angeles, has covered 92 000 miles in nine years. Born in South Africa, she has crossed the Atlantic nine times and visited British America, Europe, Africa, and Mexico with her parents. Her father H Hirschel is an English mining expert connected to two London firms and recently arrived with his wife from Mexico.
A clipped editorial snippet notes that many rise high only to fall, and that a man who claims a leader’s life often grumbles about it, suggesting a witty take on ambition and dissatisfaction.
A Michigan carpenter says a religious paper inspired him to use condensed food Grape-Nuts. He reports stronger brain power, firmer muscles, better digestion, and enduring fatigue longer after three years of use, claiming it restored his life. Name listed as Powtum Co Battle Creek Michigan.
A Gaines Pennsylvania resident testifies after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She reports drastic relief from back pain, limited mobility, and fatigue after trial use and two additional boxes. The ad asserts the pills ease aching backs, urinary issues, and related symptoms.
A concise reflection on prioritizing tasks that add real value. It argues that many tasks are efficient yet pointless if they do not serve meaningful goals or outcomes. It urges discernment and purposeful action.
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