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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1901
Page
7
A damaged text fragment references the shore and the ocean with vague pricing imagery. It presents unreadable lines about an eight dollar amount and eternity, lacking clear context or identifiable names or events.
The Secret Service uncovers a band of counterfeiters and seizes a large run of bogus bills. Advertisements tout tonics such as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Wizard Oil as must buys. Rail travel stats note two billion passengers yearly on world railways. British hotels reportedly allow wine left on tables as waiter prerogative.
An assortment of patent medicine claims and quack cures for eye ailments, coughs, teething, malaria, and general health. Includes testimonials and marketing lines from early 1900s claimants like Joan F Boyugr and references to Fundy Bay tides and childhood teething syrup.
In Cornhill Magazine the piece traces money from barter with hatchets to coins, noting early Chinese use of real hatchets and then tin hatchets as proto coins. It highlights a humorous lineage before true coinage, contrasting with Lydian electrum staters of the seventh century B C.
A New York Tribune note recalls fruit stands in Cortlandt Street where vendors refuse five cents of fruit. Customers are told they must buy at least a dime, leading one to abandon cherries and buy cigarettes instead.
A Washington Star writer recalls a London dining saloon in Whitechapel offering a large brown pie filled with sheep s liver onions and turnips with gravy. For a half penny extra two bread slices and tea are included. Locals from the east side crowd in lunchtime.
A clergyman's wife mends Gothes when a neighbor visits. She spots a large basket of buttons and notes two exactly matching buttons from her husband’s last winter suit. She remarks on reuse for church offerings before the visitor quickly leaves.
A Buffalo conference of railway passenger agents hotel men and newspaper men sought to correct the impression that Pan American Exposition fares are high and Buffalo hotel rates steep. Buffalo can house 200000 visitors with beds from fifty cents to two dollars with first class private house lodging at a dollar. Rail rates are the lowest yet for a five ten or fifteen day ticket one fare plus one dollar round trip. A joint committee will handle exposition questions and guest care while a free information bureau operates for visitors.
Frank J. Cheney swears as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public A. W. Gleason witnesses. Cure taken internally and directed at blood and mucous surfaces. testimonials offered. Druggists sell the product.
A Minnesota island on Lake Minnetonka is named for its crane population and lack of human inhabitants. Once a summer resort choice for birds, it remained undisturbed while surrounding islands grew, and now boats point to Crane Island as a Northwest curiosity.
An advertisement proclaims Oxidine guarantees a cure for malaria, chills, and fever and urges readers to ask their druggist for the remedy.
The piece extols enthusiasm as a defining and adorable trait for girls in any season. It emphasizes spontaneous zeal and a preference for the superlative as part of girl life according to the Ladies' Home Journal.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into shoes for swollen smarting burning sweating feet bunions and coins. Sold at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with free samples. Address Allen S Olmsted LeRoy NY.
A factory worker known for singing while on the line eases up as the whistle signals shift start. The brief item notes his habit and the factory setting.
A London interview quotes the Duchess of Sutherland saying Americans show more civility to mental achievement than to noble titles. She asserts mental merit earns the greatest personal compliment from Americans.
The quote argues that doubt and letdown are not essential to love yet frequently serve as strong catalysts for its development, shaping resilience and depth in relationships.
Pleasant to the taste and perfectly barmless Garfield headache powders touted as the most valuable agency in headache care.
A brief note reflects on why pictures frames are often displayed with emphasis on gilt. The quotation from Emerson underscores the aesthetic appeal and prestige associated with gilded frames.
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