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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1909
Page
7
In Chicago last year twenty eight tons of false hair were sold as demand rose and prices doubled. Hairdressers recall girls selling their crowns to feed families, often tearful, choosing sacrifice to stave off hunger and help mothers and siblings.
The narrator recalls Easter scenes from Easter Island to the New Hebrides and Easter Canyon in Arizona. He describes rice and water meals on Easter Sunday and a grim tale of immigrant deaths in a chalk diary at Easter Canyon.
The piece recalls an 1840s incident where a proposed Browning poem collection was mocked in the Westminster Review. Browning hoped 5 8 Mill would write a notice, but Mill backed away, foiling the article and leaving Browning furious at a scornful review that labeled the volumes as balderdash.
During a Sophocles Antigone performance at the Theater Royal Dublin the gallery called for the author. A voice shouted Bring out Sopherclaze, and when the manager explained Sophocles was long dead the crowd yelled chuck us out this mummy.
A club discussion revolves around a young woman named Kitty and whether it is proper for her to call there. The husband defends propriety noting a chaperone ante exists to oversee Kitty.
A 1908 newspaper reader testimonial details a long battle with dry cracked skin on hands and feet. After failed salves and doctors, the author reports rapid improvement and cure using Cuticura Remedies from Potter Drug & Chem Corp. Boston. March 11, 1908.
An old advertisement extols Haile Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward offer and notes testimonials about F J Cheney. The piece weaves in unrelated lines about patent medicines, jokes, corn production, and two Cornell students claiming a heavy flying machine invention.
A reader recalls lifelong coffee use since childhood causing weak digestion, headaches, and dull skin. After switching to Postum, digestion improved, headaches ceased, and skin cleared. the letter urges others to try Postum and cites reasons for coffee linked health issues.
Letters praise Peruna as a cure for catarrh throat troubles and colds with testimonials from Mr C Happy of Ilardin Kay Co Mo and Mr L Clifford Figs Jr of Richmond Va. The piece notes a free booklet and mentions a lodge grip fear of doing wrong and slander as moral maxims.
A testimonial describes fifteen years of nephritis and gravel with back pain, blood in urine, and weakness. After using four boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills, the speaker reports rapid improvement and no relapse, with Buffalo supplier Foster Milburn Co. cited.
The Peruna Co of Columbus Ohio offers the 1908 Peruna almanac with astronomical content and astrology articles. It lists mental traits for each sign and provides lucky and unlucky days free with an air manace. Address in New York near York. A remark notes a woman’s secret faith over a negative nickname.
A collage of court room bickering and village life sketches. A jailer asks a prisoner about challenging jurors while a clumsy doctor boosts a patient to leave for home. A boy mistaken for an elephant singer, a kiss caught asleep, and a penniless friend’s reunion unfold in brisk, humorous scenes.
The Paris central telephone station fire disrupts business and daily life, described as practically prostrated commercially. The New York Times notes Parisians may have relied heavily on phones, with transport surging to replace wires and widespread confusion across the city and beyond.
The excerpt discusses the spread of telephones from the rich to the broader public, noting how rare they were years ago and how they are now found in most homes. It highlights the ease of long distance conversation and the mild sense of wonder at speaking across a continent with a single spoken word.
A curious red back $100 gold certificate from 1865 turned up in a local bank. The note, yellow on the front with a red back bearing Over Hundred Dollars, was confirmed by the subtreasury as genuine but rarely seen since its issue for banking and clearing-house use.
A spoof idea suggests placing a black spot on tree limbs to lure rabbits from burrows so they leap to their deaths. The plan claims repeated use will exterminate rabbits, though it questions whether any rabbits would remain in Australia.
A fragment from a book review notes the artful handling of votes and political maneuvering surrounding Beaconsfield’s era. It describes a pompous Irish figure, Dr. O Leary, and a lobby encounter that evokes old political rivals and sly insinuations.
A fragment from the Somerville Journal notes a playful exchange about a young man and a woman named Miss Wintergreen. The dialogue hints at concern over a supposed habit and reputation.
Dialogue fragment shows a back and forth about sharing responsibility for improving the world by working in a gas house. The exchange implies workplace humor and civic duty within the community.
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