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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1920
Page
10
A grandfather proclaims his self made status to a group of men, boasting of wealth and property gained since entering the state. His grandson jokes that he could leave the state today in the same condition his grandfather entered it. Promissory notes are described as paper wallets.
Three year old Betty repeats a phrase she overhears nine year old John and asks to be forgiven for a nickel. The fragment notes a child’s mishearing as a playful moment. It then pivots to a remark that some animals in zoos have shorter lifespans due to captivity.
An old medical advertisement claims catarrh germs are in your blood and cannot be reached by sprays. It promotes S. S. S. as a blood cleanser with over fifty years of use and offers free advice from a Medical Adviser in Atlanta.
In a Browns household peace ends when eerie sounds from next door disturb the evening. Mr Brown suspects a gramophone but learns the truth only after his daughter reports the Murphys opening a tin of corned beef. The prank escalates from music to a noisy kitchen clatter.
The race was abandoned due to insufficient wind for the yachts sails. Sir Thomas Lipton spent about 1,000,000 dollars in the effort to lift the Cup and raise the wind, a remark reflecting the frustration over the uncooperative breeze.
A Boston court features a remaining portion of the old Province House once a hub of colonial life. Oliver Wendell Holmes lived there for 18 years, and the iron archway once led to the governor’s garden. Built in 1697 by Peter Sargent, the house was famed as a premier residence and hosted many bells during gubernatorial days.
A Boston Transcript snippet shows a specialist offering a patient a ten dollar examination test. The patient agrees, and the doctor proposes sharing half of any found result, illustrating a terse bargaining exchange in a medical context.
James Morgan chronicles Millard Fillmore from Cayuga County New York birth to January 7, 1800, through early political service in New York assembly and Congress, to 1848 election as vice president and 1850 sworn presidency. It notes his 1852 nomination defeat, 1856 Whig Knownothings ticket loss, and his March 8, 1874 death in Buffalo at age seventy four.
The piece profiles Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce, tracing Fillmore as a cautious post from New York frontier roots to a reluctant presidency and his family’s later tragedy. It then portrays Pierce as a southern aligned New Englander whose tenure helped trigger Bleeding Kansas and the rise of the Republican Party, ending with the era’s slide toward Civil War.
A light tale recalls two missing items in a damp moment as a hat exchange and umbrella swap occur after rain. The narrative shifts to a rural vignette about swine fever alerts and a cautious constable asking to see pigs, met by a sharp reply from a cottage matron.
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