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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1903
Page
3
A fragmented verse sketch portrays Uncle Jim as a fashionless, indulgent character who clings to last year’s clothes and a corncob pipe. He tells the same old jokes while Waele fists and a wafting whisker frame his persona. Kuhile arrives, prompting recognition of his role in paying the bills.
A disguised Sultan and vizier tour a land, facing a riddle from a peasant about snow bears and skinning a donkey, with the peasant withholding the last clue for wealth. A child and Dorothy share a mother’s note about raisins, followed by a Bartstown, Kentucky memory of Stephen Foster’s My Old Kentucky Home and its vivid roadside tableau of singing darkies, mocker bird, and a dog watching the scene.
An advertisement claims a severe grip attack was cured by Chamberlains Cough Remedy. It quotes Frank W. Perry of the Enterprise Shortsville NY praising the product and mentions Reinharts Pharmacy as a seller. The notice also promotes Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets for bilious attacks.
A Chicago man, Henry Isaacs of Dawson City, unveils a colossal petrified mammoth tusk in Chicago. The tusk measures about 10 feet 6 inches, weighs near 300 pounds, and rivals or surpasses the largest known tusks. Experts deem it the rarest in size and weight, dating back roughly 10,000 years or more.
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