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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1902
Page
3
Ard eath RIC sergeant claims Thomas Hand suffered four years from rheumatism and could not walk without sticks. After using St Jacobs Oil, Hand walked without aid in days and regained pain free mobility. Advertisement copy touts Voarury’s Comatton Comporwn and free sample offer.
New York society women auction off worn but usable clothing to benefit charitable causes. Proceeds from street gowns, rumpled dinners and evening toilettes, and hats support those in need.
The Chicago Inter Ocean condemns pasting multiple layers of wallpaper to hide filth and disease. It cites health officers urging legal action and endorses Alabastine as a sanitary wall coating. The paper questions how much smallpox spread stems from unsanitary wall coverings.
After a two years test of automobile transport for army use in Austria, a saving of 2916 dollars was achieved compared with conveyance drawn by horses.
An advertisement argues Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cleanses impure blood and treats scrofula pimples eczema and other eruptions. It cites a mother asking about a child’s rash and mentions consumption aiding letters praising the medicine. It touts the accompanying Common Sense Medical Adviser and requests postage for mail order.
Advocates push a point based scoring system for progressive euchre arguing it is fairer since points, not games, count. Tally cards from 1 to 120 record each side’s points per hand, with overages rewarded and rapid play encouraged to limit opponents’ tallies. End results after two hours decide prize winners as in New York Sun.
A column contrasts infant and child development with monkeys, noting babies quickly shed monkey-like features as the brain and skull expand. It cites Starper's Magazine and doctors, asserting early youth marks a shift from primal traits to human growth, followed by maturation as adaptation to environment.
A club woman states that the newest profession for women is charity work. She cites New York’s training school for charity workers and notes limited competition and viable salaries, with Philadelphia paying the head organizer 35,000. She predicts charitable work will become methodical and well paid nationwide.
A compilation of language quirks from old usage and mispronunciations. Includes examples such as lay for lie, potticary for doctor, and Tuesday for Tuesday with humorous notes on speech from a London Tatler quote and readers’ anecdotes.
Putnam Faceless Dyes are easier to use and color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. Sold by druggists, 10c per package.
Manchester England and Boston United States are almost equal in population while Birmingham and Baltimore are also very similar in size.
A vegetable compound claims to cure uterine and ovarian troubles including backache leucorrhea and “bearing down” sensations. It vows rapid relief from nervousness indigestion and irritability and asserts safety and universal endorsement with no substitutes.
The writeup mentions Irish spoken in the Bahamas among descendants banished by Cromwell and street talk in London, then shifts to a Germantown matron asking for Saratoga chips. The clerk replies with a joke about straight kindling bundles tipped with resin, offered as a substitute.
At a Washington meeting of the Anthropological Society evidence was presented that Eskimo women's tattoo marks served to indicate relationships.
A cynical view defines ambition as lacking drive to improve things. The quotation contrasts a good and bad woman, asserting nothing is better than a good person and nothing worse than a bad one.
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