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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1903
Page
2
A nostalgic verse from the Chicago Daily News praises Gramper, an aging but active grandfather. Despite poor hearing and sight, he stays busy fixing and patching around the homestead. He drives to town, mends leaks, seeds potatoes, tends harness, and helps the womenfolk. Though aged, his days remain full, and he will sleep in the cemetery one day, leaving a sense of absence.
Jim Ramsey and his friend Dick Manwaring confront illness, deceit, and forgiveness as Jim’s mother fights for life while Dick confesses a forgery to save his friend. The tale follows the moral turn toward honesty, reconciliation, and a fresh start for Skinner & Manwaring with a marriage link to Jessie Skinner.
A crowded English gathering turns chaotic as a scowling critic interrupts Joseph Chamberlain during a political speech. Amid shouts of shame and removal, reporters note the host’s calm exit and the crowd’s scramble.
A Chicago based railroad company leads a trend to present trainmen as well dressed. Erie Railroad follows by enforcing sharply creased trousers and spotless shoes with tailors and bootblacks on duty in Chicago Indiana Jersey City. Each worker carries two tickets one for the tailor and one for bootblacks, to maintain a constantly polished appearance.
The piece notes that baseball fever affects all, from brokers in high hats to barefooted boys and even dignified ecclesiastics, showing the sport’s broad, enthusiastic appeal across social ranks.
An article explains magnet origins from Magnesia Asia Minor where lodestone attracted iron. It describes iron rubbed with lodestone becoming a magnet, and later electroding methods to make magnets. It notes toy magnets are steel bars rubbed on strong magnets.
A Woman's Home Companion writer notes startling facts about Indian Territory residents. He says the Choctaws are the wealthiest and most progressive tribe, with Purcell as a modern town. Leading doctors lawyers bankers preachers and businessmen are Choctaws, credit to any community.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger anecdote recalls Cardinal Gibbons asking a reporter for today’s score as he left the room. The scene, amid notes on Mr Darwin and earth motion, sits beside a description of a stylish Choctaw maiden among a carriage party.
The chief of artillery pushes for stricter expert knowledge tests for officers. Many artillery lieutenants abandon posts for cavalry and infantry. Civilians newly appointed under the reorganization act fear the upcoming tests and seek to dodge them.
The claim states patrolman Joseph Lang Lois of Chicago, aged 37, holds the life saving record for rescuing at least one hundred people from drowning.
A lyric narrator urges leaving the city for country life by a lake and woods. The speaker envisions fishing, swimming, a garden, rustic health, and family adventures while joking about practical worries and a hopeful return after summer.
A young man with a gleam in his eye uses a prank call to Miss Snubbem, taunting her in a halting voice over a public telephone. He jokes about chewing gum and gestures at the receiver before hanging up with a satisfied grin.
Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco recalls a persistent job seeker who sought an opening in the city’s service. The applicant’s wobbling cane and shifting weight lead to an accidental harvest of opportunity as he slips toward a hole in the boardwalk. The mayor quips that the hole is the opening and advises the applicant to try to fill it or seek the board of public works.
Upper Cross Roads Maryland on June 15 reports Dodd's Kidney Pills as a marvel in cures. The ad claims success in Rheumatism Lumbago Backache Female Trouble Nervous disorders Dropsy Diabetes and Bright's Disease with testimonials including Mrs John Cooney praising the remedy as the best for Kidney Trouble and weak back.
A jumbled excerpt from an early 20th century paper reports a country cook delivering a letter to “Mary” about a sick father, interwoven with ad blurbs and stray jokes. The page includes ads for foot care products, a parrot talking, cough remedies, trains, and medical cures, all in a fragmented, miscellany style.
The excerpt recalls Eliza Ann McCleave, famed for her Nantucket museum and lectures. She presented two small figures labeled Caesar and Brutus, joking she forgot which was which as she asked a spectator to decide. The dialogue also references Kate and Nellie, noting witty remarks about marriage and suitors.
Mrs Florence Danorta of St. Tooph Michigan shares how her health improved after four months of daily use of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She states prolapsus was the cause and credits the remedy with restoring strength and vitality.
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