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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1903
Page
3
The piece extols Syrup of Figs as the best family laxative with fast benefits from plant-based ingredients. It touts the California Fig Syrup Co and stresses buying genuine, original packages bearing the full company name for assured quality and uniform purity.
The notice promotes W L Douglas shoes priced at 3.50 and 3.00 with comparisons to 4 and 5 dollar rivals. It claims quality with imported and American leathers, Meyl’s Patent Calf, Box Calf, and other materials, promoting fast color eyelets and mail order catalogs from Brockton Massachusetts.
A humorous and fragmentary dialogue opens with Crusoe and a shade exchanging greetings, then shifts to a social note about news and a ship captain claiming lobsters on Crusoe’s island, followed by a medical advertisement praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and a testimonial from Mrs. Lavan L. Baexen of Crown Point Indiana urging sick women to seek her advice.
A collection of humor bits from Stray Stories featuring a minister advising a rejected suitor Miss Silverton, a stern tradesman, a drummer from a boiler shop, a loud telephone complaint about steam heat, and a quip about marriage spoiling a bachelor and a good mechanic.
A brisk exchange captures a prospective customer asking to view Brussels items and a universal provider naming carpets and point facets while the dialogue hints at a medical angle. The fragment hints at a chaotic trade or service scene with hurried, misheard phrases.
A mother asked to leave her baby with Mrs Smith while she walked over, placing the crib before the telephone and promising to return if the baby cried. The exchange operator described the scene, and the shock caused by the request led to a gun-dropping moment as Dent cried busy to eleven callers.
A Langdon North Dakota farmer in Winnipeg says thousands will migrate northward in spring seeking fertile land at about one quarter the Dakota price. He notes higher wheat prices south of the border, but Canada offers cheaper land and similar yields. Government agents in multiple Midwest and Great Lakes cities offer official guidance on mixed farming, dairying, ranching, grain-raising, and rates. Also, Prof. Mommsen, aging historian, recounts a library fire and a recent scorch mark with humorous remark about silvered hair.
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