Miscellany of Wit and Quips From Old Newspapers
A collage of jokes and quips from various papers, featuring banter about talkative spouses, trial juries, luck, health, unusual questions about asteroids, and humorous mishearings. Includes brief exchanges on marriage, aviation, and rural life with dated social-flair and ironic wordplay.
Grape Nuts Proved Practical Food Across Life Stages
A reader extols Grape Nuts for balanced nutrition aiding brain and body from infancy to old age. She describes two years of breakfast use with milk and a touch of cream, noting sustained noon hunger and seasonal meals, with her son and husband soon adopting the same regimen.
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Northwest Notes highlights notable Nevada events and figures
Notable items include B Langwith named notary in Humboldt county marking a first for a woman since a constitutional change, Stella Snyder's midnight arrest in camping attire near a creek, and Ryan Arthur named for Utah in a relief committee for Senghenydd mine disaster widows and orphans. Reports cover mining outputs in 1904 and 1912, Yellowstone elk, Idaho Falls library funding, Big Lost River irrigation contracts, Idaho grocers cash basis rule, and Nevada police watching Gardnerville feud risks.
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B. Langwith
Humboldt County
Nevada
Mise Langwith
Stelle Snyder
Butte
Balt Lake
Ryan Arthur
Galt Lake
Utah
National Relief
Senghenydd
South Wales
Colorado
Searcy
Walter M. Hoppe
Yellowstone National Park
Lbrary Board
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Carnes‘e Corporation
Big Lost River
Big West River Irrigation Company
Land Board
aThe Grocers
Gardnerville
Willie Jack
Jim Jack
Benny Pitts
Henry Pitts
Rolla B. Clapp
Chicago
Grand Junction
San Diego
Cal
Clayp
J. G. Gourta
Carson City
Oakland
Coutts
Klondyke Secon
Jim Butler
Tonopahh
Denlan
Butie
Postal Telegraph Company
Peter Miller
Beattle
Hugh
California
Saya
Reno Gaselle
Guy Curry
Pleavams Valley
Fort Morgan
Mra J. Ramman
Curry Wes
Echeot
Warri Jenkins
What is Woman's Beauty but Health
A health based beauty view credits bowels as the root of many female ailments and promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle permanent remedy. The ad touts widespread female endorsement, claims suitability for babies to the elderly, and offers a money back guarantee with a free sample by mail.
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Dr. Caldwell
America
W. B. Caldwell
Washington St
Monticello
Satisfied with His Bargain a Barber’s Bluff in New York
Dramatic press agent Frank P. Morse and critic Ralph A. Graves visit a barber shop where a tall barber promises hair treatment for one dollar ninety cents. Graves warns Morse the barber is bald as an egg. Morse asks why this would prevent hair loss. The barber’s baldness exposes the fraud.
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Frank P. Morse
Dramatic
Ralph A. Graves
New York
Graves
Morse
Yew
Frank
Eruption Affects Face in Streator Patient
Miss Caroline Miller reports a painful facial eruption starting as a small pimple that spread across her face, disfiguring it and causing sleepless nights. She credits three weeks of Cuticura Soap and Ointment with a complete cure, note dated 1818.
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East Elm Gt
Streator
Caro
Lme Miller
Ignla
Cuticure
Dept. L
Boston
Fragmented quotation from unclear source
Incoherent OCR fragment presents a brief dialogue line about poverty and behavior. The readable text is incomplete, with garbled names and context, preventing a clear newsworthy event or person.
Look out for paint before falling in love with a beautiful complexion
A brief item notes caution about paint hazards linked to a striking complexion. The report highlights consumer advice and awareness, urging care with colored coatings while noting potential aesthetic appeal. No individuals or organizations are specified in readable text.
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