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Newspaper
The Greenville Journal
Location
Greenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1908
Page
7
An encoded dialogue recounts a medium and a message from a son about a mysterious wine said to aid a mother's health. The tale follows a woman who sought aid at Mrs Smithkins and at Fulton Street, with a wholesale wine purchase and a cryptic connection to a crime-like encounter.
A long comic tale set in Mecca centers on Imam Abdullah who, pressed by demands from women for a four-husband rule, stages a staged revelation using a milk kettle. Hanifa, his clever daughter, drives the twist that the milk reveals paternity, while Abdullah proclaims a provocative moral about lineage and belief.
A 55 year old man from Tipton, Iowa, describes lifelong eczema worsened to red and white boils. After eight months using Culura Soap Ointment Resolvent and Pills, he claims cure. Letters from readers endorse the remedy and related anecdotes appear alongside various notes and school humor items.
A woman recounts years of indigestion and nerve weakness after peritonitis. She found relief after trying Grape-Nuts and Postum, with improved sleep appetite and strength. She and her husband continue use, attributed to a beneficent change “There’s a Reason” from Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
A historical notice describes how frauds sold mixed pigments as Pure White Lead, and how Nations Lead Company introduced the Dutch Boy trademark and a blowpipe test to prove purity. The company offered a test outfit and booklet to educate buyers and prevent deception, urging purchasers to request them from National Lead Company in New York.
A Boston broker in a city hub recalls a group of young women graduates debating the English novel, noting his quip that Fielding matters but only with good pitchers and hitters. The anecdote, cited from Harper's Weekly, blends literary talk with baseball imagery.
Tripp County South Dakota government plans opening of about a million acres of Noa agricultural and grazing lands around October 1. Rosebud extension of Chicago and North Western Ry is the sole railway reaching the lands, with Dallas as the rail terminus and the only town on the reservation. The U S land office is expected to be located there. Pamphlet describing the land and quarter section homesteads free on application to W. 4. Kolsherm, P T M, Chicago.
A patchwork page fragment features a Poultry Soap ad praising 20 Mule Team Borax for washing white birds, with a Tennessean farmer name and multiple dealer notes. It also includes jokes about typewriter erasers, a street scene line about a man’s memory, and scattered quotes from Marcus Aurelius and a line about borrowing trouble.
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