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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
3
A rural district expose warns that traveling agents for dubious wholesale houses pressure farmers with low prices claiming to save dealer profits. It details inflated costs from commissions, adulterated goods, and misrepresented samples, urging shoppers to favor home merchants who offer fair pricing and lower freight and middleman marks.
Retailers should push aggressive local ads now to capture spring and summer sales. Ask what ads say, choose proper space and copy, secure tasteful borders, and include strong prices. Use showy illustrations, avoid misrepresentation, and prompt deliveries with circulars in each package. Harvest time for merchants to boost orders.
The piece warns that farmers and laborers seldom study financial matters due to long hours. Surplus funds tempt schemes with promises of high returns and misled figures. It advises safe local investments and cautions that distant investers may lead to losses.
Observers say the most successful grocers keep meat and goods in clean, well kept condition. People prefer pure, properly stored items and fair prices, noting that neglect leads to losses. A tidy window display helps convey stock is fresh and carefully cared for.
Russian blouses remain popular for both boys and girls in nursery and kindergarten wear. Bright colored dresses in morning outfits are preferred for practicality, while white outfits are less suited to play. Guimpe and suspender dresses stay in style as children graduate from blouses to strap styles suitable for older kids and even adults.
A guide to children's wardrobe details describes fresh guimpes daily to keep gowns clean, with striped linens for morning dresses and white guimpes for party looks. It highlights pink as a favorite, color combinations with blue, and the appeal of flowered organ dies, French mousselines, and wide sashes for dances and parties.
A description of suede and glazed leather cut to resemble four butterfly wings for spring footwear. Upper pieces in two harmonizing shades, perforated oval markings show color beneath. Ties appear in dark purple and violet, brown and tan, dark blue and light, myrtle, apple green with two red tones.
A morning fashion sketch describes a frock in dark purple blue satin with black satin trim. The gown features a violet leaf green waistcoat and crepe jabot in the same blue tone, paired with a green hat adorned with violets and a large ribbon accent. Queen is referenced in the text.
An illustrated Sunday Magazine piece argues children's untruthfulness stems from elder influence and fear of punishment. It notes politeness prompts agreement, and punishment fears distort truth. It advocates encouraging confession, especially when punishment is reduced or removed.
A Manayunk philosopher recalls attending a Brooklyn Unitarian service where the pastor faltered. The pastor’s wife stepped into the pulpit, finished the sermon, and led the service to prayer. The husband complained of officiousness, sparking a debate on whether a wife’s helpfulness can go too far.
A leech confined in water acts as a weather prophet. If the weather remains fine it stays motionless at the vial bottom rolled in a spiral. If rain is coming it climbs to the top and stays until the weather settles. For wind it gallops through its lodging with rapid speed.
Echo de Paris reports the government may tighten opium sales. Only apothecaries and druggists could sell with special authorization. Purchasers' intent, buyer name and address, quantity, and purpose would be recorded.
A curio shop uptown displays a comb with the claim it was worn by a witch. The alliterative legend attracts passers-by as shoppers speculate it may become a family heirloom for someone with Salem, Massachusetts ancestry.
Haydon the painter praised Shakespeare in Stratford, where rustic locals boast of another notable figure. They claim John Cooper has lived in town from boyhood to manhood without ever suffering the toothache.
A new babies club by a Paris journalist features a spacious building with a garden and clubhouse. Members and parents enjoy a Punch and Judy show a cafe with sweets cakes tea milk lemonade toy ships and a theater offering games and activities for children.
A fragment from the Cathetic Standard and Times quotes a junior partner noting the bookkeeper has been married and implying missing records. The line suggests concern over accounts and potential examination to verify finances.
A celebrated Danish actress has been suggested as a faculty member for a trunk packing school. The idea notes that women succeeding in trunk packing could find steady work during filling months for travelers, with possible openings at large hotels for a woman who can perform the labor to perfection.
An Engllen publication describes a fairy tale style rouge that supposedly lasts for years. It mimics youth by turning pale when the wearer is sick and grows rosier as health returns, offering an improvement on nature which often changes color at inopportune moments.
Teresa McDonald of Boston explains pastry art and records her baking feats over decades. She reports 394000 pies in 40 years at one restaurant, 2000000 doughnuts in 27 years, and 188400 puddings with a claim that laid pies would stretch 70 miles if lined up.
A Frenchman sneers at a Waterloo medal given by the English government calling it a trifling cost. An English soldier responds that while it did not cost England three francs, it cost France Napoleon, in a witty rebuke reported by the New York Press.
A report notes that when two layers of pure water at different temperatures are separated by a membrane, endosmosis occurs from the cold to the hot side, analogous to water and sugar solution. The effect is pronounced with hot and cold air separated by a membrane as well.
A quotation attributed to Gibert Ann Taylor emphasizes the duty to keep confidence. It cautions that sharing feelings and seeking relief through communication can lead to disclosures one might regret. The speaker urges the receiver to honor implied confidences.
An elderly Scottish woman, fond of gossip and a dram, signs the temperance pledge after a friend offers a glass. She declares she will not touch or handle alcohol again, yet adds that a single drop in a cup would tempt her to sample it.
Text from Brother Dickey notes the saying that a man who saves in youth will be cared for in old age, as younger folks adapt to his needs and share space by the warm fire. The mused line reflects frugal wisdom and intergenerational solidarity in the community.
A simple method uses metal rings to clean bean pots by filling the pot with cold water and baking soda. Set on a table spaceful of the stove back and aimmer for two hours.
The quote asserts that enduring character stems from persistent effort toward our highest good. It argues character is formed through use of our powers in routine matters, reflecting a French perspective on self-discipline and virtue.
The United States produced about 25 million dollars in honey last year, a figure that helps explain why bees grow peevish when disturbed, as noted by the Washington Post.
At North London police court a man summoned for failing to send his daughter to school said she was his twenty first child. Local officials pursued the standard truancy action while the man defended his case by citing the large number of offspring.
An odd ad touts investing in a piano and music house with suggestion to use negotiable notes. The fragment hints at cautious advice to be still and quiet with a dog accompanying the scene.
Quote by Carlyle praising readers who reflect, noting a lasting reward for old age as a lifelong habit of reading and reflection.
A fragment warns readers about unnecessary inside information and a questionable remedy. It cites old advice on avoiding a gut ache and hints at a cautious stance toward risky tips and sensational claims.
Poetic fragment urges restraint and rational belief, cites Shakespearean lines about truth and protest. Mentions phraseology like Seek After Small Things and a warning about floods and provinces. Contains archaic punctuation and fragmented thoughts without clear narrative.
J H Weaver advertises embalming as a specialty at the Philadelphia College of Embalming. The notice markets him as a competent funeral assistant for ladies and children, promising prompt service day or night and a local phone listing in Burtinson North Dakota.
A historic public notice outlines efforts to satisfy customers with high class stationers and fixed prices. The unnamed text emphasizes study to please buyers and deliver superior tints, tones, and office supplies, reflecting a period advertising tone.
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