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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1897
Page
2
A compact note asserts Star Tobacco as the leading brand of the world and best in its class, while a quip warns that talk without listening yields no understanding.
An advertisement promotes No-To-Bac as a tobacco quitter that makes weak men strong with Cure guaranteed. It urges readers to obtain booklets and samples from Sterling Remedy Co in Chicago or New York, and ends with a quirky remark about hope, happiness, and a bow legged guide.
A rustic asks to marry while a squire weighs beeswax worth 60 cents and an anxious groom promises more next week. The judge approves after Sal jokes about marrying them as far as one Randonn will, per the Detroit Free Press.
An Omaha firm advertises a home based cure for nervous and sexual weakness claiming no harmful drugs and offering a free paper on the diseases plus proofs of efficacy. The firm pledges to cover travel costs for in person treatment and asserts a $250,000 capital with guaranteed cures.
Brooklyn naturalist John Dean has cultivated the attacus cynthia silk worm since 1852 and guides a reporter through a hidden vacant lot near City Hall where thousands of wild silk worms thrive on ailanthus trees. The piece contrasts wild and cultivated silk worms and notes Brooklyn’s early role in silk worm history, with details of observation gear and rough surroundings.
In Brooklyn Eagle, Burdette quotes a menagerie keeper naming beasts by traits. The lion is Aazzora, the tiger Blazer, gnu Nothing, camel Prima, leopard Measles, brown bear Lager, hyena Straggler, sacred cow Chairman, zebra Mugwump, giraffe Water, with a joke about the giraffe swallowing much more than others.
The Pittsburg Dispatch describes Jesse Christman from Lackawanna valley moving west by boat in October 1834. His boat traveled by canal to the Allegheny foothills, was carried on a railroad incline, rested a night, then reentered the canal to reach the Ohio, Mississippi, and claimed as perhaps the first boat to cross the mountains.
A humorous Life snippet shows an elderly woman asking for “a leetle paint” from a druggist’s boy. The clerk asks if it is for a face or a fence, prompting a playful exchange that highlights everyday consumer humor.
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