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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1893
Page
3
An 1893 prospectus extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal laxative and family remedy. It highlights popularity over decades, promises an Almanac detailing uses and origin, and notes wide distribution by the Hostetter Company of Pittsburgh with multilingual editions and broad staff involvement.
A collage of humorous anecdotes and witty exchanges from diverse sources includes playful dialogues about pets, politics, and everyday life. Notable bits feature a dog’s barking, a campaign poem, a telegraphic jab at railway policy, and light social quips about aging, manners, and curiosity, all presented in a periodical humor style.
A collage of jokes and quips from late 19th to early 20th century newspapers. The items poke fun at language, editors, detectives, and everyday quirks, featuring editors handling jokes, misreadings, and humorous misunderstandings in short comic vignettes.
A collage of aphorisms and jokes from various papers, including quips about language, a quip about New York shorthand, a play-night remark, and a long anecdote about Arab courtship rituals. The piece ends with a note that size does not determine a lawyer’s success, claiming suits make the lawyer.
In Caldwell County near Princeton Kentucky a farmer drilled into a subterranean chamber after surveying a cave stream from a sink hole near his home. He drilled through limestone to a large chamber with a waterfall and dammed water using hydraulic rams. A conservatory above the entrance shelters thriving flowers even in severe winters.
This religious column urges honest expression of feeling to sustain home happiness. It warns against excessive politeness that masks inner lives, calls for loving inquiry and encouragement, and stresses tenderness, sunlit kindness, and frankness in family bonds. It also reflects on aging parents, patience, and the duty of children to care. The piece weaves anecdotes of a blind mountaineer and reflections on joy, faith, and humane duty.
A Quip about keeping young ducks alive in a Third Avenue bird shop leads to a look at science and nature topics. The piece notes aluminum in earth crusts, a sun noon color changing flower, and then advertises Catarrh cures and Garfield Tea claiming home health benefits.
Winter Resorts of the South reachable from Chicago with one change at Louisville or Cincinnati where connections are made with L N and Q G trains to Florida. Monon day trains now feature new parlor and dining cars while night trains include smoking cars day coaches Pullman and compartment sleepers. The line touts improved road-bed and service claiming best-equipped Chicago to the South at lower rates. Also notes a weight reduction article in the Boston Globe and offers a copy for two-cent stamp.
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