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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1919
Page
7
An old advertisement extols Haarlem Oil Capsules as a tonic to stimulate kidneys and digestive organs, claiming it reinforces vitality and prevents age-related decline. It urges readers to buy original Gold Medal imported capsules from their druggist, in sealed packs.
A jumble of quirky exchanges shows a quarrelsome set at home and a restless street scene. Voices complain about breakfast delays and peppery soup while a horse-faced city and bolshevik hints swirl through the chatter with dubious clarity.
The article outlines six tests to gauge fitness including step-ups in 15 seconds with pulse check, breath-hold after breath is held with nose clipped, breath-hold after chair steps, a lung capacity test blowing 3400 cc, raising mercury to 112 mm, and a 40 second mercury hold with pulse monitoring. Results track heart lungs and kidney health and note willpower influences outcomes.
Reports say Chinese pirates off Shantung boarded a coasting schooner from Tsingtail, looting it and slaying the crew. One survivor clung to life after jumping overboard and was rescued. A Japanese sailor involved described the encounter.
A clipped dialogue from Cartoons Magazine shows a clerk recalling a girl he met on vacation and a man in Buffalo Express recalling a secretive underworld encounter in New York. The exchange blends humor with whispered hints of past swims and subway travels.
A Baltimore official recalls telling a minister to drop the word obey from a marriage rite. The minister reportedly replied that words are wasted on him as he does not believe in wasting words.
A fragmentary verse paints waking nature with red maple buds blue skies and violets beneath emerald spray and sapphire lakes. It glows with waking birds and butterflies, while hazy lines hint at a poet’s meditation and the author Vetherine Lee Bates in Christian Bel nune Moriter.
A jumble of dialogue and notes references family talk about childhood, a gun incident, and a newspaper poem after a shooting. It mentions Spain harvest figures for 1918 and Cavern dwelling snakes in the Malay Peninsula, with observations on cave life and dangers.
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