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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1921
Page
3
A garbled ad column promotes insurance through W A Daniel’s agency in Charles Town and hawks various goods and jobs. It mentions a health ointment and children’s mite remedy, plus a dubious offer from International Stocking Mills in Norristown, Pa.
A narrator, Mother Junse Nijoom, addresses seven house mice about leaving the warm nest to seek fortunes in the wider world. She describes their future lives, singing inpantries and closets, avoiding crowds, and learning to survive, with guidance on how to act and what to expect as they grow. The passage blends instruction with whimsy and moral framing about independence and resilience.
An observer recalls a slow train ride between Front Royal and Manassas Virginia where two young men and a mature woman traded stories of headaches rheumatism and a deadly poison scare. The note questions why people dwell on pain while life’s wider circle offers beauty and moments beyond illness.
In New York a farm incident reported near the Catskill Mountains involves a resident named Dieter and animals including chickens. Authorities note a disturbance, with no injuries reported and ongoing investigations into the event.
The article describes a peculiar Arctic fishing method where Ainu men use thirty dogs to drive trout and salmon toward shore. Dogs seize captured fish, heads are shared with each dog, and dogs catching nothing receive nothing. The dogs are semi wild, recently captured from the forest, and the drill is unique in its precision.
A local notice touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a universal cure for catarrh, claiming constitutional treatment via the blood. The ad offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure and urges readers to send for testimonials from Toledo, Ohio, with product priced at 75 cents.
The speaker Cox Simmons describes past excesses with gambling gin and wild behavior in a vivid, dialect laden confession during a meeting at Koen ezer Chapel. He pleads for prayers and guidance from his brothers and sisters to find a path forward.
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