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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1906
Page
2
An old advertisement lists coal and wood burning options, stove repairs, Keystone and IXL Cider Mill copper kettles and apple parers, bicycles for sale with repairs, tin and galvanized roofing and spouting by experienced workers, white enameled iron bedsteads, all steel spring mattresses, wire cots, hammock chairs and swings with very low prices aligned to the times.
An account of Lydia E Pinkham born 1819 and her Vegetable Compound for women’s ailments. It traces early life, marriage to Isaiah P. Pinkham, humble beginnings, free distribution, and eventual national sales after 1878 financial downturn.
In Elmway village Ellery Brown and shy clerk Ellery win Arabella Hawkins through a blend of social nerves and a phonograph plot. Jonas Fort jokes that telegraphs and motors fail to ease the old art of asking a girl. Arabella accepts after Ellery uses a phonograph confession, ending with a village, church, and orchard engagement moment.
A sea captain famed for calm under fire saved passengers during a shipboard fire by lighting a cigar to steady minds and prevent panic, then ordered the boats to push off. The story blends legend with meditations on drink and self restraint, recalling a Virginia judge and a patient’s sufficiency of Foley's remedy.
A Lincoln party leader recalls Lincoln using a forged will case and a single witness who tests the will by holding it to the light to reveal a water mark of Blank & Co. Other notes describe new additions at Regent's Park of lungfish and their unusual climb, plus quips and miscellany from a busy page.
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