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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
7
An old advertisement touts MANL UN SITALIZER claiming to “vitalize power” with a first dose promised to show effects. It lists price at $1, urges purchasing from Munyon at 63rd and Jefferson in Philadelphia. It includes a short moral anecdote about a mother and child and a reply about kicking shins.
Reports from Central Canada’s grain belts show a strong 1909 yield for wheat and other cereals across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Forecasts anticipate continued expansion to 17 to 20 million acres with yields reaching 225 to 600 million bushels, boosting world market prices and highlighting Saskatchewan’s early development and high per acre yields.
A tale from Grecian philosophy tells of the Academy of Silence with 100 men. A seeker arrives, is tested by a brimming water bowl. He places a flower petal on the liquid and the bowl remains undisturbed, proving his calm. The academy’s membership rises to 161.
Frederick Mayer arrived in Milwaukee in 1851 and started as a journeyman shoemaker. He established a wholesale shoe trade by 1880 and built Mayer factories in Milwaukee and Seattle. By 1893 his sons continued the policy, expanding to a 9000 pair per day capacity, 600000 dollars in wages, and 65 salesmen across 24 states, producing brands like Honorbilt and Martha Washington Comfort Shoes.
A New York physician recalls operating on General Estrada about a century ago. President Zeinya covered the $1,500 bill and thanked the doctor for restoring health. Estrada now seeks to depose his benefactor from residency, a remark the physician says shows how unpredictable events abroad can be.
A street car scene shows the thirty second passenger boarding and paying fare. The conductor rings up 32 cents after the man beside notes Ol gave him a nickel.
Reward offers and medical claims for Hall’s Catarrh Cure with testimonies and guarantees. Notices tout internal treatment to blood and mucous surfaces and claim constitutional restoration. Includes druggist sales and references to Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets and stage-heritage quip.
The ad cites various tonics and elixirs asserting cures for colds sore throats and inflammations. It touts Wizard Oil for throat relief, a claim of easing tonsillitis quinsy and diphtheria improbable, and promotes Laxative Bromos as a remedy with a money back guarantee.
A New York Press report describes Broadway year end festivities from the Hoffman House to the Hotel Astor with a million dollars in food and drink. Champagne abounds at $5 a quart as hundreds of tables fill the mile long street with orchestras and elaborate menus.
A collage of poetry and classroom fables reflects on Columbus and celestial imagery. Students recount the explorer’s legacy while poems praise dawn, birds, and divine guidance, paired with notes on sun exposure damaging mirrors.
The mother is in Oklahoma seeking her children Harry aged 20 and Isabel Imbella aged 18 who were taken by the Nebraska Children's Home Society in 189? following their father Bilas Allen's death. The superintendent refuses to disclose their location, and the mother asks recipients to write to P. O. Box 9% Omaha to provide their address.
In 1901 Rosanna and Bessie Hartman lived with their mother at Chapmat Nebraska after their father was killed in Anada Missouri. The mother, an Invalid, sent the girls to Omaha for schooling under Mrs Smith. In 1903 Bessie aged on reached adulthood last February and is in Nebraska Childrens Home Society custody, which will not reveal her address to Rosanna now Mrs Geo err. If Bessie sends her address to P O Box 898 Omaha Nebraska it will be forwarded to Rosanna.
An older testimonial recounts a 25 year battle with a humiliating skin condition covered head to shoulders. After failed treatments and hospital care, the speaker credits Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent with a rapid cure. Another note touts clearing pimples on the face after ten days using the same products.
A new German satire unites twelve writers in a 400 page work published under Konrad W. Mecklenburgs. Each author writes one chapter, passing it to the next, with biographies of the authors and lavish illustrations. The lineup includes Hermann Bahr Otto Ernst Hans Heinz Ewers George Hirschfeld Gustav Meyrink Olga Wohlbruck Otto Julius Bierbaum Herbert Bulenberg Gustav Falke Felix Hollaender Gabriel Reuter and Ernst von Wolzogen.
An advertisement extols a cure for coughs and colds using two ounces glycerine, half ounce virgin olive oil of pine compound, and eight ounces pure whisky. It notes the Virgin Olive Pine compound is made by Leach Chemical Co in Cincinnati and sold in half ounce vials. Also promotes a 6 to 14 day pile cure with pay after use guarantee at 50 cents.
A Kansas City Journal clipping recalls a Western editor asking overdue subscribers to mail a lock of hair to prove they are alive, sparking a joke about abandoning editing for the wig business. The note also mentions Americans traveling in Russia and a puzzling practice there.
A Gotha catalog lists 19 collectors with names and addresses and tallies across many domains. Autographs and manuscripts appear in hundreds, libraries number 4 055, books of virtuoso 486, natural history 1 452, art objects 2 001, and postage stamps 190, among others.
In the gray dawn a traveler complains to a Scotland inn night clerk about the worst bed. The clerk says beds are alike and a snorer in the next room sleeps loudly, while another guest uses the floor, leaving the traveler frustrated with lodging choices.
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