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Newspaper
The Socorro Chieftain
Location
Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1904
Page
3
In a fashionable Riverside Drive wedding a bride distributed luck talismans to eight bridesmaids by gifting each an unused left garter. The bride planned to wear eight left garters on the ceremony day to ensure uniform good luck for all attendants. The ushers queried the gifts and were told the bridesmaids received something lucky.
An impatient patient insists his symptoms prove a serious heart trouble and rebuffs a young physician. The tale highlights the clash between experience and new medical judgment, underscoring how attitude affects diagnosis in a light humorous tone.
The Bob bitt family of Bargerton Tennessee recounts a near death from consumption. Dr Kings New Discovery allegedly provided immediate relief and complete cure after a failed battle with the disease. Bottles cost 50 cents and 1 for a dollar with free trial bottles at druggists.
A young clergyman admits general satisfaction with his work while Elder Wilkins finds fault with his prayers. The retired pastor recalls that the elder directs prayers to the wrong party, a common mix up in church talk.
Mr Wm S Crane of California Maryland suffered rheumatism and lumbago for years. He was advised to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which effected a complete cure. For sale by all druggists.
A collage of quotes and anecdotes discuss gender roles, a quip about Talmage and Twain, stove-pipe hard luck at a fire, a remedy pitch for Electric Bitters, and a joke about an anxious mother and her son.
A brief exchange notes that success in whist hinges on luck as much as skill, with playful banter between Joey Yes and Pietro. The Philadelphia Bulletin frames luck as a key factor shaping the game’s outcome.
The London academy awarded a guinea to the person who chose three quotable sentences from various authors. The selections include Ruskin on imagination and heaven, Mazzini on discouragement and egotism, and Stevenson on wisdom, change, and a life well lived.
A dialogue over breaking in a new pipe ends with a joke about giving one apple to three fifths of a boy. A teacher considers dividing fifteen apples among twelve boys and a quip answers with humorous math. The piece closes with a witty line about true love and a teaser for a cureetera.
A humorous quip contrasts a husband’s reform from gambling to swimming and pool halls with a joke about a kitchen economizing book. The exchange features a Philadelphia Press quote and a wife’s reply about recipes that assume they own cold roast turkey.
The Chicago News notes a man who bought diamonds beyond his means and began to alter checks. The story ends with a grim joke about "breaking stones" as a dark punchline to a tale of financial risk and crime. A drug ad touts Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets at 25 cents.
For sale at a bargain listing multiple properties on Park Street south of the court house including a five room house in good repair with orchard barn and corral a six room house and a ranch property of 50 acres near the Santa Fe depot with good hay land and three building lots on Manzanares avenue opposite the Windsor hotel. Also an assortment of fancy stationery at The Chieftain office.
A meeting of the Territorial Republican Central Committee of New Mexico is set in Santa Fe on January 30, 1904 at 11 oclock to fix the time and place for the territorial convention. The purpose is to select six delegates and six alternates to attend the National Republican Convention in Chicago on June 21 1904 to nominate President and Vice President and consider other business.
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