Overcharge dispute at store noted by customer
Rufe accuses store proprietor Mr Jones of overcharging for a keg fill. He complains about paying for an extra gallon of molasses and dislikes the damage to a key strained in the process.
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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1911
Page
7
Rufe accuses store proprietor Mr Jones of overcharging for a keg fill. He complains about paying for an extra gallon of molasses and dislikes the damage to a key strained in the process.
New York City now runs twelve open air schools and classes with plans for fourteen more by fall. Chicago reports six open air classes and Boston has five as part of a broader tuberculosis prevention program announced by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
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A quirky notice reports a household disruption as Mrs Appleworm Mercy laments that her band left and devoured half the house before departing, leaving a puzzling domestic mess and unresolved hopes.
An advertisement cites M. R. Wilson of Humboldt Nebraska describing kidney disease symptoms and relief from Dean's Kidney Pills. The Foster-Milburn Co. of Buffalo promotes the product at 50 cents a box through dealers. A humor panel from Puck notes domestic quips about keeping husbands at home.
Witty exchange in a humorous item where Mrs. Scrappington reads aloud an alarming account of a woman inadvertently or intentionally asphyxiating her husband with gas, prompting a quip about wives waking husbands and talking them to death.
Fragmentary notice references Castoria a safe remedy for infants and children. It urges careful dispensing and states duty for mothers and married men as heroes, though difficult to prove.
An advertisement touts stomach restatives and liver cleansers. It claims a medical discovery for stomach weakness and liver balance and promotes Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as regulators for stomach liver and bowels.
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