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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1909
Page
3
A collage of quirky maxims, courtroom anecdote, and verse pulled from late 19th or early 20th century newspaper fare. Snippets touch on love, heredity, suburban life, and common ailments with terse, wry observations. The Indianapolis News anecdote adds a humorous cross examination moment, followed by poetry about theAspen Tree and a Home remedy ad note.
A gentleman asks about Oscar Kahyyyam as two brothers discuss tastes and knowledge. The elder prefers Chianti while the younger corrects a misread Omar Kahyyam as a cheese. In Boston Transcript a humorous street encounter ends with a haircut pun.
A series of witty, pointed observations on women, divorce, and social pretenses. The author muses on staidness, marriage, and honesty, noting how public perception differs from private truth. A playful critique of self-made pride and social expectations.
Testimonial from 1908 Newark patient describes severe body eczema with bleeding sores and hair loss. After using Cuticura Ointment Soap and Resolvent, symptoms receded and healing began. Ends with marketing line for Cuticura products and supplier Potter Drug. Includes unrelated verse and note about rose petal extraction.
A collage of light items from a social column includes Alberto Fredericco praising Italy’s train service with a memo about a Ventimille to Genoa journey featuring a singe cow on the line and a humorous jelly request by Betty. Also notes on Bryan and Oyama banter, Governor Folk’s praise of gradual reform, Long on Tolstoy comparisons, Jerry Simpson’s rebuke of boasting, and a band instrument mail anecdote.
A German scientist reports black hair is strongest and can suspend up to four ounces. Hair colors vary in strength: yellow hair supports about two ounces, brown hair three ounces, and very dark brown adds half an ounce. The study links black hair vitality to baldness trends, noting jet black hair may grow full while blondes face baldness for seven and a half years.
In Logansport Indiana Aug 11 a common tin-can eating goat named Billy killed Royal Rajah a python said to be over 100 years old. The python weighed about 300 pounds and 12 feet long after the goat was placed in the snake’s pen despite humane society orders. The snake wrapped the goat crushed bones and began to swallow it. One horn got bound and the snake burst an artery and died. Embalming required seven pints of fluid.
A collage of items includes an advertisement for Donn’s Kidney Pills by Irene Tudor claiming relief from kidney trouble and a 50 cent price. It transitions to moral tales about honesty, a Denver anecdote about a vendor and a Noah Webster bust, and a note on chimney use in medieval Europe.
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Fossil find from asphalt beds near Los Angeles yields a peacock named Pava California by Love H. Miller of UC class of 1889. University researchers note it may be the only fossilized member of its family in the western hemisphere, surpassing earlier sabre toothed discoveries in public interest.
An ad pitch for a seventy volume set of speeches clashes with a skeptical reader in Chicago flux. A meek buyer questions the index while a misfired sales pitch highlights bold claims and a grand total of $680 paid, amid a chorus of competing ads and a note on a major fishing match bill totaling over $185 million.
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