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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
7
Reginald de Koven recounts a grocer and a druggist who attended a Wagner concert and debated art and career fit. The druggist jokes he is a success as a druggist but longs to be a banker while the grocer envies literary pursuits, noting Wagner’s attempt at music and parlor car building.
A collection of humorous aphorisms and quips from various sources touching on aging, honesty, wealth, misperception, gentility, manners, and a joke about a widow’s tombstone inscription. includes lines about a 60 year old becoming steady, a boy peeling an orange, and a long lightning conductor in Bavaria.
An elderly advertisement for kidney pills claims dramatic cures with testimonials from a Medina man. A Detroit Irishman quips about carpentry and making a Venetian blind, while a Somerville Journal joke recalls a wife counting to ten during anger fits.
A bacteriology professor visits a butcher seeking measly pork for a study. The butcher insists all meat is fresh and first class. Days later the professor returns and asks if the measly pork was prepared, prompting a humorous exchange about delivery for his dinner.
An advertising piece extols Borax as a universal household disinfectant and additive for cleaning, deodorizing, softening water, and brightening fabrics. It claims safe, odorless, non toxic action suitable for skin and delicate textiles, offered in grocery and drugstore packages.
A fragmented medical note urges proper daily routines to form regular habits, stressing that remedies should aid nature not replace it. It links digestion to nourishment, effort, and right living, advocating genuine, non-supplantive treatment for lasting benefit.
Mrs Philpots wore a blue ribbon with gold lettering at a temperance meeting. At home her son revealed the ribbon matched one from a Santa Poultry Show where it won First Prize Bantam. Family laughter highlighted the mix up and a teachable moment about recognition.
Dr Albert H Palmer urged a humane view of marriage in a Chicago talk noting men warn against treating wives as servants. He recounted a seaside tableau of a boy and girl and a gruff reply about shoes and stockings as a parable for marital strain. A witty exchange about what reaches vast perspective followed. Seven hundred British subjects are born at sea each year.
A Nebraska resident recalls suffering head and neck sores the size of pennies for six months after measles. Hair fell out. Doctors’ remedies failed until a course of Cudlenia Remedies produced a full recovery in about three weeks, several years ago.
Winnipeg correspondence asserts Western Canada soil yields high grain and vast grass lands suitable for homesteads. It notes 160 acres free entry via proxy and cites Craik Saskatoon evidence of rapid growth and bloom in a Dalbia plant from Minneapolis. It includes a political digression about a cautious congressman and a humorous health remark.
A Chicago widow, Lizzie Lobe of 1155 W 18th St, writes of chronic night sweats and weakness. After doctors urged surgery, she followed Dr Hartman’s Peruna instructions for four months, says she recovered and used five bottles. She invites others to write for details.
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