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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1898
Page
3
Fragmented 19th century ad collage touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure and other tonics. Claims cure by blood action, with testimonials from unnamed bankers and druggists. Includes multiple brand pitches and dubious health promises, plus miscellaneous moral quotes.
A fragmentary note explains how the exclamation Jiminy echoes gemini Castor and Pollux, twin gods of protection for travelers and games in Roman myth, and compares it to modern profanity. The piece also mentions a baby named in a long chain of honorifics.
The article notes postwar price reductions on farming gear and asserts the United States dominates global production of agricultural implements. It cites 1890 census data with about 1,000 factories, $150 million invested, 45,000 workers, and $80 million output, then discusses export trends, credit depressions, and state leadership in Illinois, Ohio, New York, and Wisconsin.
An assortment of wartime bravado quotes contrasts with ads touting health tonics. Spitlin seeks fights before the war and fights during it, while ads promote Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for digestive woes and No-To-Bac for tobacco and vitality, urging readers to send for samples and catalogs.
An 1898 Memphis ad insert announces a contest by Van Vleet Mansfield Drug Co offering eighteen premiums totaling 1060 in gold for accurately estimating cotton received in Memphis during 1898. Grand prize is a Kerschner Upright Grand Piano at Houck's Music, with cash option. The page also includes assorted medical ads for Cascarets and Teething Powders, plus testimonials and unrelated moral quotes. typical of a late 19th century newspaper ad page.
A string of witty, child sized quips and misunderstandings light up a church pew and a grocery run. Jokes touch on Washington, honesty, fishing, dolls, Samson, Schley and a penny saved. The humor centers on children misreading adults and adults underestimating them.
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