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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
8
The article exposes a corrupt political convention run by bosses where chairs secretaries and a national machine manipulate votes. Delegates are coerced from wards with gavel threats and purged for dissent while bolt threats and favoritism decide nominees amid loud stage rhetoric.
Ernest Misgagfey recalls a political convention scene filled with loud orators, stern chairmen, and spectacle as seasoned attendees mock the chaos. Jack Derby recounts being ushered out, losing a vote, and a humorous backstage look at reformer voices and the crowd’s grim reactions. The piece blends satire with vivid character sketches of delegates, guards, and the ball.
Washington correspondent Henry W Blair reports a former New Hampshire senator, once frail and 72, rediscovered an old lifting device that kept them youthful years ago. Clerk Claft found the apparatus, brought it to Cannon, who agreed a test of his strength would prove the machine’s promise of perpetual youth.
Farmers seek safer dairy utensils and cleanliness with borax presented as a natural cleaner and preservative. Experts note borax kills bacteria, preserves freshness, and aids milking by washing udders with a borax solution. Mothers offered a free booklet and a 20 Mule Team borax coupon incentive.
From Paris comes a novel decorated card role with a tray of artificial powers adaptable to dinner colors. The racks are conventional placards upon which guests' names are written and can be reused for menus, eliminating the cost of a custom dinner card for each event.
A Sunday school teacher plans a social evening for her class but finds spontaneity missing as boys arrive. A terrier noses around for welcome while a bashful boy explains he had a bulldog puppy that grew into a bloundhiound.
An Irishman and seven Scots argue over which country has the fastest trains. A respondent claims a tour in his land where a train passed fields of carrots, tumps, parsley, long plots, and a pond of water, going so fast he thought it was broth. The exchange hints at playful boastfulness about speed and technology.
A Wisconsin woman describes a 12 year struggle with poor appetite and weakness. After trying Grape-Nuts with milk and water she reports rapid improvement, enabling breakfast with cream, lunch and dinner, and eventual ability to eat fruit, meat, and vegetables again.
Maude E. Forgie of Leesburg Virginia writes of dramatic personal recovery after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and the prescribed treatment. The letter endorses the product for disorders including displacement inflammation and irregularities and invites others to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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