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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
8
An afternoon exchange in Santa Ana reports a country youth being greeted by a town resident. The visitor from the chautauqua area jokes about the experience saying he rode on the thing nine times. The brief anecdote captures local color and casual banter.
A reflective piece catalogs missed plans and near misses that doomed a person’s chances. Each line shows a promise delayed by fate or misfortune ending in tragedy or ruin. The tone mirrors a cautionary obituary of unfulfilled intent.
A Toledo clergyman received a parishioner’s note announcing an imminent wedding. The letter states the couple, including Miss Cora Cook, will come to the church Saturday afternoon to be married and asks for punctuality since a hired hack is paid by the hour.
A Salvation Army preacher at a Garden City street corner told husbands to step forward if they had not spoken a cross word to their wife in 30 days. Jeweler C. J. Dickinson stepped up and quipped his wife had been away for over a month.
A noisy collage of literary snippets, jokes, and personal anecdotes. The pieces include a coal fire scene with a stoker named Satan, a testimonial for Dean's Kidney Pills from Mrs. Dunn of Columbus, and a wedding guest scene where the Best Man confronts a despondent youth. A New York Weekly sketch on rental flats ends with a comic line about inherited childbearing.
A collage of home baking tips and small recipes. Instructions cover making extra crusts for pies Banana Pie Prune Pie and Cockle Baking tips for flour handling and rolling dough plus a short verse from John Kendrick Bangs about urban loneliness.
An old style home recipe column presents a make ahead method for beef roast, poultry and fish with vinegar in oven to keep roasts tender, plus notes on fall fashions, marine insurance origins, and a quip about suspicion over wives kissing husbands late.
A mash of literary fragments and a medical testimonial. It includes a Harpers Weekly reference about a moral meditation on sin and a 1907 Cure for eczema from Mrs. H Budke praising Cuticura remedies. It also notes London taxicabs rising in use with 168 taxicabs on streets and eight companies.
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