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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1909
Page
7
A collage of brief humorous exchanges and anecdotes from various outlets. A faithful clerk recalls twenty five years of service as a merchant prince rewards him with hair dye. A photographer, book agents, and a pianist student joke about fame and talent with local wit.
A collage of light humor and brief exchanges from early 20th century columns. Jests touch on marriage, law, editor remarks, fishing humor, and evolving language as noted in Washington Star and Kansas City Journal clippings.
An advertisement urges readers to request a free mail in medical examination from Munyon's Doctors at 524 Jefferson Streets Philadelphia. It states a diagnosis will indicate cure or impossibility and that there is no obligation to follow the advice. Also mentions English language trends in China and a medicinal claim for Hamlin's Wizard Oil.
The article notes shifts in global gold reserves and consumption, compares tobacco use in Italy with Europe, cites Egypt’s machinery import spend, and highlights Canada’s motor boat role to the US and free travel for exporters. It also covers railroad management losses, free passage for traders to South Africa, Canada's maple sugar output at about 18 million pounds, and London fire causes spanning electricity and other factors.
A reader recounts abandoning coffee after trying Postum at meals. She explains it helped her nerves and stability, improving her health and teaching performance. The letter touts Postum as safe for children and adults and cites the booklet The Road to Wellville as related reading.
Letters from women across the country praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from menopause and related female ailments. Advertisements tout corsets hats handbags and consumer goods alongside claims of health restoration and nationwide availability.
An early 1900s advertisement touts Haarlem Oil Capsules as a kidney, liver, and bladder remedy. It claims relief for liver and stomach ailments and promotes coupons for free samples from Holland Medicine Co. in Scranton, PA, with price references for capsules and bottles. It mentions a Canadian maple sugar yield note but is unrelated to the medical claim.
A brief fashion note suggests inexpensive silk muslin gowns as charming home wear. It mentions a warmer gown option in fancy chalies, offered as a practical solution for comfortable household attire.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh a constitutional disease. The ad asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, offering 100 dollars for any case not cured. Address F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio, urging purchase from local druggists. Also mentions Taketan's Family Pills for constipation and cites the Salvation Army anti tobacco league with 55,000 members.
A garbled OCR passage discusses the United States continental area versus Europe, an alloy of iron thorium sparking when struck, teenage labor on the Great Lakes, electric lights powered by storage batteries, a London ambulance, and a claim that gold money stocks are about 75 percent higher than a decade ago.
A New York reader reports a three year old son ate an entire box of Cuticura Ointment contents while on a voyage, claiming it cured his cold. The note asserts Cuticura products are pure, sweet, and harmless for children and skin use.
A London reviewer recalls a friend in northern Brazil who kept poisonous snakes. After a jar breaks and a deadly snake escapes, the man jumps from his bed with a bootless foot and narrowly avoids a fatal strike as a servant aids and a hurried will is drafted.
A descriptive passage portrays penguins hopping two to four feet with awkward wings and clumsy feet, enduring raw, bleeding soles on rough ice. Some pair penguins gather stones for nests while others steal, leading to lively chases and dramatic stone plunder amid nesting season.
Report describes a religious service in Scotland where Lord Kelvin congratulates a wise young man. a veteran grandfather jokes about the boy’s future. A sidenote recalls a GFPs purse lost by Clarice, with poetry but dress samples to be returned. Washington Herald.
A motorist named Spigot-Johnson drove his car into a building yesterday, initially mistaking it for a shop and ending up in a garage. Cobnil Cuts notes a humorous aside about cheerful giving.
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