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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1906
Page
9
The article describes summer headwear trends with tulle and roses in millinery. It highlights airy hats for evening outings, ruched tulle, white plumes, and posies in soft gray crin. Also notes sailors trimmed for summer use and artificial flowers as a fashionable alternative. It mentions light summer dresses and rose-tulle combinations gaining favor.
The Houston Post notes a fruit business is not running but at a standstill. The report uses a pun to describe the market’s paused state and reflects a temporary halt in operations.
A Topeka printer recounts relief from rheumatism after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. He cites swelling relief and improved health after a year of treatment and recommends the pills as safe with no narcotics, offering mail order sales from Schenectady New York.
A rural visitor asks a policeman where to find a bunko steerer. The officer says he cannot help. The visitor explains he has spent his money and hopes to catch a bunko man for a dinner. The exchange appears in the Louisville Courier-Journal.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for deafness caused by catarrh. It promises money for uncured cases and urges mailing for circulars. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and Castoria as infant remedies, reflecting early 20th century medical marketing.
A collage of old advertisements and quips cites patent medicines by Dr Kline H H with claims of nerve restoration and teething syrups. Other items promote Ball Blue laundry product and humorous lines about berths, coal bills, and light and heavy weight notions, reflecting era commercial humor.
John L. Snyder gains permission to take the New York state bar exam. Paul J. Rainey installs a wireless telegraphy system on his yacht Anona, planning to be the first American steam yacht so equipped. Jerome, a New York district attorney, is spotlighted. Other profiles include a guilty plea for trifling offenses, Chaplain Francis Doherty editing a soldier paper, traveler George Griffith planning to settle on the Isle of Man, and Liberia-born Thomas Lewis studying medicine at Syracuse University with mission aims. J. P. Webster, longtime mayor of Waucoma, Iowa, is re-elected for two more years at age 82.
In a Fort Monroe scene from a year ago a man with two ladies asked a recruit where Jeff Davis was imprisoned. The recruit joked that the guard house might hold him, illustrating a quick glimpse of wartime insignia and humor. The piece blends other quotes and ad copy from era publications.
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