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Newspaper
The Fairbury News
Location
Fairbury, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
6
A mixed scrap of rural life anecdotes and courtroom anecdotes. A philanthropist sends a New York slum child to the country where she reports turkeys killed and a pumpkin patch injury. Gilman Fay faces a change scam in Fayville Massachusetts. A schoolteacher tests arithmetic with a boy who proclaims he knows his father.
A priest teases a parishioner Pat with a lookup on ginny as they pass work. Two elderly African Americans discuss old time circuses versus Barnum and Bailey with humor, noting the John Robinson Circus as another famed show.
A fragment depicts Rufus and Zeke discussing a child named Jean Mandy who dies while playing a game of color fate. The dialogue implies the girl tested colors on the child then blamed the tragedy on the "poor little thing" trying to make good.
A perspiring man returns with purchases and a missing hat as he contends with his wife in a waiting room scene. He recalls the seven and three quarter yards of cambric and other items while a small boy is unsettled and a train approaches.
Colonel W. P. Thorne recalls a 1906 Republican ratification meeting in Kentucky after Governor elect W. O. Bradley's victory. He describes brass bands, floats, banners and the partisan bustle that characterized the event.
A stranger visits Doctors Inn in Laramie to see Dr Grace R Hebard author and professor. He expects a man but is told by the author that a woman can be a doctor and a scholar. The meeting proceeds with business completed though the encounter highlights gender assumptions.
Justice Matthews presiding over the supreme court in Washington consoles Justice Gray during a moment of distress on the bench. Gray declines remedy, saying only Niles can overrule the motion as the wind stirs readers recall.
A visitor recalls New York eateries where orders are given in slang terms like Beef and for beef and beans and Draw one in the dark for black coffee. The Bowery phrases include Brown the wheats for buckwheat cakes and Hash in the steamer for corned beef hash.
An admirer recalls Edgar Allan Poe riding to Fordham then a New York suburb. The driver asks why Poe is notable, and the answer highlights his poems and tales as the source of his enduring fame.
A hotel clerk recalls drummer Samuel Parker Sedgewick Elliott who gradually shortened his name on the register from full to Sam P. Elliott and finally S P Elliott. The tale traces his evolving sign with emphasis on bureaucratic shorthand.
An Midwest prairie ad emphasizes kidney relief from infancy to old age and touts Dean's Kidney Pills as curative for backache and urinary disorders. A Bayou Fairbury Nebraska parent recounts improvements in a child after using the pills bought at Vine Pease’s drug store. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY is named as sole US agent with the warning Remember the name Deaf’s and take no other.
A Wood resident, A. M. Ake, recounts years of severe lung hemorrhages and weak lungs. After trying several physicians, he used Foley's Honey and Tar and reports his lungs are now sound. He warns against substitutes and vine products.
Six year old Little Dickie asks if pie crust harms health. His story of daily crust consumption prompts concern over kidney or bladder trouble and a magazine claim about Foleys Kidney Cure as a remedy. Wine Pease ads note want ads yield results.
Mr. Frank Conlan of 436 Houston St New York hails Electric Bitters as a grand family medicine for dyspepsia liver issues and weak kidneys. He says it regulates digestion purifies blood and renews vigor for both sexes with a 50 cent guarantee offered at Pease's.
Loud firing from coastal forts protecting the national harbor wrecked several ceilings and cracked windows in Dover. The tremors caused by nine inch shells rattled homes as residents were urged to stay indoors and secure windows.
Tom Mooré of Rural Route I Cochran Ga reports a foot sore healed after using Buckien’s Arnica Salve less than half of a 25 cent box, sold under guarantee at Pease’s drug store.
The American Analyst describes a test for sewer gas in an apartment. Saturate glazed paper with one ounce of pure lead acetate in eight ounces rainwater, dry it partly, then expose it in the room suspected of containing gas. presence of gas turns the test paper black.
A Branchton Pennsylvania man once unable to work learns Foley's Kidney Cure restored his strength. He could not stoop to tie his shoes but after treatment he became a new man and sent best wishes for Foley's Kidney Cure. Vine Pease endorses the remedy.
In a rough mining camp scene the men laze on a bench near the mess house discussing daily life. Old Methuselah, famed for a prominent nose, becomes the butt of good natured amusement while a late remark about a fly on his dose underscores camp humor.
Ayscue of Ingleside North Carolina touts Dr King’s New Life Pills after 15 years of indigestion and spending over 200 dollars with no relief. He endorses the pills as the best ever sold and notes a guaranteed sale at Peorse’s drug store.
A dated note on tobacco use describes how men should smoke discreetly and offer cigars without long speeches. It claims social acceptance comes from quiet smoking and not forcing others to join in, suggesting the man’s character is shaped by these habits.
A letter from Will Gure Consumption of Finch Arkansas claims Foley's Honey and Tar is the best preparation for coughs colds and lung trouble. He asserts it cures consumption in its early stages and cites general satisfaction with the product.
The Chicago area recently established hospital quiet zones similar to New York as a nationwide wave of protests against unrestrained noise grows. Europe’s large cities are also adopting anti noise measures, reflecting broader concern over sound levels.
A vintage health ad touts Foley's Kidney Cure as purifying the blood and restoring kidney function. It claims to positively cure all kidney and bladder diseases and to strengthen the entire system with Vine Pease mentioned.
Uncle Jerry Peebles laments boys punished for mere suspicion of crimes their fathers avoided. He recalls how the old man was never caught for similar acts, suggesting a cycle of punishment and perception.
W R Ward of Dyersburg Tennessee testifies that Urine Laxative Fruit Syrup has proven a thorough practical remedy for chronic constipation.
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