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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1895
Page
7
Readers learn of Japan's public bath culture with 800 to 900 bathhouses in Yokio serving daily crowds, plus home bathing habits. The page also notes a smoking tree in Ono, unusual anecdotes, and brief humorous vignettes about manners, health products, and money matters.
The advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system and relieves colds headaches and fevers while improving health. It claims easy taste acceptance acts on kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them and notes sales through druggists in 50c and 1 bottles, made by the California Fig Syrup Co.
A collage of comic verses and anecdotes from a 1900s Chicago Tribune page. It lampoons European dress, rural manners, and domestic satire while recounting jokes about work, humor, and a gas smell on a street corner. The piece blends verse on fashion with jokes from mass humor columns.
A Philadelphian visiting New York buys a Tennyson engraving for four quarters in a shop rambling for cash. He then sells it minutes later at a rival dealer for twenty five dollars, covering his entire trip expenses in one purchase. The tale underscores wary dealings with speculation and deceit in the city.
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