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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1909
Page
9
The California Fig Syrup Co touts its exceptional equipment and scientific attainments claiming the Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is produced from pure medicinal plant principals. It warns buyers to insist on the full company name on the front of the package to avoid imitations.
A raucous collage of quotes and excerpts from Tatler and Keats fills a page. The text juxtaposes a comic moral from a Sunday school lesson with celebratory lines from Ode on a Grecian Urn and other fragments. It reads like a scrapbook of literary textures and social witticisms from a past issue.
A Yukon family recalls a two year old boy crippled by an itchy rash, blisters, and skin hardening. After medical advice failed, Cuticura Soup and Cuticura Ointment reportedly cured him over two years ago with no recurrence. Also mentions Doan's Kidney Pills and Spohn's Distemper Cure among other ads and testimonials.
A compact survey lists yearly incomes and lifetime royalties for authors including Zola, Milton, Twain, Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, Scott, Hugo, and Browning. It notes varied sums from $5,000 for first sales to hundreds of thousands for entire careers, illustrating vast historical earnings disparities in literature.
A fragment lists long marriages with Mrs Vanish and Sue Pullixes noting roughly 28 and 20 years respectively. The text hints at marital duration and stability through brief personal references and incomplete lines.
A country gentleman at a London railway station buys a penny weekly paper from a persistent newsboy. Lacking change he offers 11 pence as security for the tenpence owed, but after a tense moment the boy accepts the other copies instead, and the train departs as the man reflects on the encounter.
A measured verse praising enduring spirit and noble virtues. The speaker contrasts luxury and passion with strength, laments changing youth, and invokes a vast, boundless devotion to an unnamed hero. The diction blends admiration with moral reflection on power and virtue.
The Portland Oregonian reports a large exodus of American farmers to Canada in fall 1909. About 70,000 settlers bring an estimated $70,000,000 in cash and effects, drawn by cheap fertile land, safer life, and more stable law. Canadian railways like Canadian Pacific, Canadian Northern, and Grand Trunk Park spur settlement, with government agents offering information to prospective settlers.
In a western Kansas county the dead body of an unknown man was discovered. His pockets held $100 in bank notes and a big revolver. The story notes the odd contrast between the apparent wealth and the unresolved identity, with a leading inquiry from the Innocent One questioning the use of the hundred.
The text notes a deceased man, denied proper burial, was arraigned before a Justice of the Peace for carrying sealed weapons, fined $100, and buried in the Potter's Field, reflecting a grim legal outcome after death.
An old advertisement touts Mother Gray’s Powder for children’s ailments including constipation teething feverishness and stomach troubles. It claims 30 900 testimonials and offers a free sample with address in Le Roy New York. A second fragment references a congressional measure about open play and reduced incidents like the Kansas City speech.
A brief note from Youth's Companion recounts painter Jean Paul Laurens as the son of an honest Toulouse cab driver. While one brother stayed home as a successful grocer in Toulouse, the younger son went to Paris to pursue art, a tale framed by two elder women in Toulouge.
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