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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1893
Page
3
A young salesgirl and an older clerk discussed why men buy safety pins in a New Orleans dry goods shop. A tall, well dressed man asked for pins for personal use, not the baby, prompting amused remarks about how men fix clothing and hold items together with pins.
A New York Sun writer recalls a waiter who assigns titles at a hotel table. When a young man arrives the waiter calls him general, while he keeps the narrator as judge. The waiter explains they judge rank by creases on the back of pants to identify a real general.
A handsome young Viennese named John Charles Hamburger was shunned in Salzburg after locals misread his name as Hamburg born amid cholera panic. When clarified, he resumed his social draw at concerts and public halls, proving the misunderstanding short-lived.
The ad proclaims Electric Bitters the leading pure medicinal tonic with no intoxicants. It claims to cure stomach and liver ailments, headaches, indigestion, constipation, and malaria, with a satisfaction guarantee and a 50 cent bottle price sold by J. R. Weston.
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