Subway Smell Question In Quip About City Transit
A witty exchange contrasts readers' complaints about subway odor with a jaded view of daily exposure, hinting at urban transit frustration.
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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
7
A witty exchange contrasts readers' complaints about subway odor with a jaded view of daily exposure, hinting at urban transit frustration.
Mrs. Zana Miller of Union City Michigan recounts her three month old baby suffering Cuban Itch with relentless itching and sleeplessness. After trying Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment the sores dried, the child slept, and two weeks later was entirely well. The cost was 75 cents. May 17, 1906.
Patent lawyers Lothrop and Johnson report a list of patents issued last week to Northwestern inventors. Names include Willi Behr of Scotland 8 D and Adolph W. Borkner of Cayuga for elevator bucket and stovepipe joint respectively, with Thom as J. Dunning of Chatfield Minn and Abner Johnson of Strandquist Minn noted for lawn mower and snap-hook. Additional items cover Knute Ledan M Ulring Webster Minn carrier David H. Quinn Williams Minn and a water tank heater.
A sharp reflection on marriage markets where a beautiful poor girl accepts an oldish man with money. The piece portrays the inevitability of economic pairing and the social pressures shaping romance.
An advertisement boasts a $100 reward for any catarrh cure failure and claims Hall's Catarrh Cure heals the disease by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. It urges readers to request testimony lists from J Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio, and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Overheard in Rome mentions an American girl heading to the Capitoline museum to see the legendary wolf that nursed Romeo and Juliet while a Gulf Coast excursion is advertised. Leaving St Paul January seventh Theo F Koch Land Co Globe Building St Paul. Piles cured in 6 to 14 days with Frbo ointment advertised.
Crowns donated by German passengers and the prince of Morocco lead relief for sailors and hospitals while Norway and Sweden honor King Oscar. Norway reports rising post volumes and fiscal gains as Bjornson marks anniversaries and other cultural notes fill the day.
St Paul attorney James Manahan files with the Interstate Commerce Commission a petition seeking to broaden the Pullman sleeping car inquiry beyond St Paul to include all U S routes. He cites a rise in capitalization to 100 million dollars and dividends totaling 52 million over ten years, arguing nationwide rates are unfair and excessive. The commission will hear the case when the Chicago hearing resumes following the St Paul investigation.
Faribault Minnesota December 24 The board of control plans a mammoth chicken raising plant at the school for the feeble minded The incubators will be large capacity and the project will be on a large scale It aims to employ many inmates and to raise poultry for school consumption and to operate a broiler shipping business.
An excited orator extols Brown's Bronchial Troches as unmatched for hoarseness coughs and sore throat praising a long history of use. The piece weaves in various ad like lines and quips about fathers sons and money with several product mentions and peculiar asides.
Iowa farmers in southern Black Hawk County convert cottonwood trees to lumber to dodge high prices. A portable sawmill operates on farms, charging seven dollars per thousand feet, producing hundreds of thousands of feet for barns and fences.
An advertisement claims Fits St Vitus Dance and nervous diseases cured by Dr Kines Great Nerve Restorer. It promotes a $2.08 trial bottle and treatise from Tr R AH Bilina Philadelphia with a kitchen cabinet by Elwell Kitchen Cabinet Co Minneapolis. It notes belief in small towns boosting confidence to seek larger markets.
Private Dugan and Private Grange of the Sixth Cavalry escaped from the guardhouse at Fort Meade, South Dakota, Thursday night while awaiting transfer to Fort Leavenworth for desertion sentences. Grange was captured near Sturgis. Dugan remains at large.
Almena Wis December 24 Dr John Till known as the Sommerset wonder healer is visiting his sister Mrs Stee ple. He plans a ten day stay then will go to Germany to reside for good and is said to carry about 200000 dollars in cash.
Historical Department papers are handled gingerly after a centipede escaped its bottle and is believed to be hiding among office records. Two children drown skate skating on the river in Toledo. A stock show is planned by Le Sueur County Breeders Association in Minnesota. Foreman Lacore injured on a handcar hit by an engine in Bemidji.
A. A. Wilson shot and killed Bud Doughty in Wilson Miss in the store. Doughty, a wealthy planter, allegedly used improper language before women, prompting the fatal confrontation.
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