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Newspaper
The Observer
Location
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1900
Page
4
In Hinckley Leicestershire a porter seized Veasy who fled the workhouse and dragged him tied to a bicycle from Stanford back to Hinckley. The incident caused a district sensation and the Hinckley guardians condemned the conduct. The porter resigned after the board accepted his explanation.
Sir John Steel struggled to elicit a warlike look from the Duke of Wellington for a statue. After failing to recall Waterloo or Talavera, the sculptor pressed for Salamanca, only to hear the duke declare he would be found crawling on his stomach with a telescope to be modeled.
Quote from Tit Bits shows a speaker recounting a confrontation with a det and Parker. The speaker notes fearlessness due to Parker holding a pistol and being insured through his company. The dialogue hints at risk and financial protection in dangerous situations.
A collage of century old ad lines and faux news notes extols armored trains and a range of tonics. It mocks wartime logistics while touting patent medicines like Stomach Bitters and Piso’s Cure, plus a Toledo notary claim about Hall’s Catarrh cure and a joke about mud tracked into homes.
Poem reflects a speaker longing for dreams as solace from loss and hardship. Refrains plead for retained visions of loved ones and past joys, contrasting pain of striving with dreamt comforts from the dead and distant memories. The verse traverses grief, memory, and aspirational hope.
In a Transvaal mining engineer's trek, a man and guide Gan stalk two man-eating lions near a Mozambican wadi. After a tense pursuit the male lion is killed, the lioness is shot near a thicket, and two cubs are captured to be kept as souvenirs.
Mrs Green laughs at Mr Johnson holding politeness as he, a former head waiter, habitually pulls out the chair for his wife before they sit. Green remarks on the courtesy while Johnson simply says it is a habit he cannot break.
Census experts quoted by the Chicago Post expect the population center next year to lie in Indiana near the Illinois border close to Vincennes. The prior center was between Columbus Indiana and Cincinnati. Gains in Georgia Texas Indian Territory Oklahoma New Mexico and Arizona over ten years may shift the center south of the 1890 line, with the wealth center near Sandvaky Ohio.
A five year old Leonard Webber saved his drowning younger brother in Germany, while a nine year old Russian boy fought a wolf to protect a sleeping playmate. Stories also tell of an eight year old girl extinguishing a fire in Russia and a Nottingham schoolboy subduing a burglar, then aiding police.
Advertises B B B Botanic Blood Balm as a permanent remedy that roots out the blood poison causing rheumatism and catarrh. Offers large and full-treatment bottles with a prepaid trial bottle free, addressed to Blood Balm Co. at 4 Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Richard Cumberland grew jealous of Richard Sheridan and punished his children during a performance of The School for Scandal. Cumberland hissed his children to keep silent as Sheridan retorted that Cumberland was ungrateful for laughing at his comedy.
Father writes from Lynchburg Va asking for four more boxes of Tetterine for his daughter after other remedies failed. The ad notes the product costs 50 cents a box at druggists or can be mailed postpaid by J T Shuptrine in Savannah Georgia.
In a Jewelers' Weekly excerpt, Professor tests Mr. Doolittle on his topic the diamond. Doolittle replies that every woman believes the gem harmonizes exactly with her complexion.
A short humorous exchange from a Puck cartoon features Mr Newlywed asking to be called a brute while Mrs Newlywed reminds him Fido the dog is present. The gag rests on social embarrassment and the dog as audience.
Mrs Helen Kilkenny of New Portland Maine reports five years of use with Hair Vigor keeping hair soft and smooth. She says it restores gray hair to its original color and quickly cured scalp itching. Her mother used the product about twenty years and liked it.
A promotional notice touts Ayer's Hair Vigor claiming fifty years of use restoring color to gray hair and preventing hair loss. It advertises a dollar a bottle sold by all druggists and urges confidence in scalp health and hair growth.
Farmers who study best cultivate vegetables that reliably meet market demand. The article argues knowledge and planning separate successful growers from casual producers and highlights the link between education and consistent yields.
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