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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1907
Page
8
In a court scene a hotel proprietor challenges a girl applicant about pay. He offers six dollars weekly with room or four dollars if she boards out. She notes the usual wage difference. The proprietor hints that the table they set for staff explains the higher wage. The judge presides.
A customer rebukes a prepaid dental parlor with a snide sign promising painless extractions and refunds. The patient describes severe pain, noting the procedure felt like losing the top of his head. The dentist offers to return the tooth if requested.
A compact collage of quips and verse notes features a sharp line about a motor tongued Clara, a riddle of kerosene or gasoline with a Doctor’s verdict, and a playful exchange where an impecunious nobleman asks Evangeline if she told her paper of capturing him for one husband. The heiress boasted of luck and papa’s blunt reply ends with a startling expletive.
A fragmentary humorous exchange features an automobilist praising roads and a farmer joking about a playground shoot. Miss Fether bed comments on newspaper writers with self deprecating irony, admitting she thought newspapers were printed.
Angelina questions Edwin’s love as days pass since a wife described as vain and heartless. The salon couple quarrels over affection while a socialite notes the brevity of marriage, six weeks, and lack of concern about meeting the husband.
A terse exchange ends with a standoff over a half dollar as a victim refuses to lend money. The dialogue style suggests a clipped street scene or skit with sharp exchanges.
A brief item from a New York Weekly sketch notes a nervy student asking if his bouquet reached the prima donna. The stage doorkeeper reveals a six foot tall young man back stage who is her son and has the letter.
The Houston Post notes a marriage formed for love with a line about a “million” being what she loved. The fragment hints at a humorous or cutting aside on wealth versus affection and a likely side remark about repair costs or choices, leaving the core idea of love over money ambiguous.
Practical guidance on darning damask with a backing card, reinforcing edges, and concealing repairs. Instructions cover knife cuts, rents, and applying tape for open tears, plus methods to secure and reinstate fabric without weakening the edges. Also details machine quilting ruffles and a tested suet pudding recipe with sauce.
A recipe for O’Brien potatoes using cape potato balls or cubes onion butter canned pimentos parsley and a method to fry and combine. Also a watercress soup made from meat stock watercress and butter with cayenne, simmered then enriched with extra butter whipped cream and watercress tips.
A recipe describes a French style dressing for ordinary potato salad. Just before serving stir in three quarters of a cup of whipped cream beaten with half a teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce to yield enough dressing for a quart of salad.
A storyteller compares a tiny steamboat with a booming whistle to modern motorists. The piece muses on loud fronts, asking if steamboatmen and automobilists are the only ones craving big noise, noting how people of all kinds enjoy making a grand show.
The Philippine government faces finding husbands for Hospicio de San Jose orphans. Uncle Sam’s agents discover dowry requirements drive brides to be scarce. A matrimonial brokerage offers 150 dollars to suitable Filipino men after official verification of the groom’s history.
A story claims Agesiаus inked the word Victory on his hand in inverted Greek letters before battle. After ritual sacrifice a priest, the captain’s hand touched flesh and left the word printed, described as the first printer’s mark. Soldiers interpreted it as a divine message and pressed forward.
Consul T. BE Heenan of Odessa notes the post office savings bank in Russia, though late in origin, shows robust growth with annual deposits rising about 46 million dollars. Deposits reached 501.6 million dollars by August 1903 and 488.5 million dollars by 1907, explained by a preference to not keep large sums at home. Corsular Report.
A historical note cites a Harper's Weekly illustration about a misworded white southern text on a colored picnic near Mobile. The hand bill urged restraint and decency, ending with a perplexing pledge to preserve order and maximize pleasure for attendees.
Opposition to feathers in feminine headgear faces a counter argument from the New York Press noting 30 000 Parisian girls would lose jobs if feather use ends. A working girls advocate adds that if a bird or a girl must perish it should not be the girl.
C G Minnick of 2968 Darien Street Philadelphia says a forked limb cut from a tree near Secane station yielded a single three legged stop with the shapes of a horse hoof a hogs hoof and an elephant trunk. The mouth and trunk resemble nature, and the likeness is striking. Minnick claims he stripped the bark to reveal the carving.
A brisk exhortation urges action over complaint. If you have work, tackle it with energy, and if courting, approach boldly to win the girl. Do not be shy or mopey, instead move, engage, and pursue what you want with confidence.
A light exchange notes that overheard pet names reveal a couple may wed. The dialogue contrasts sweet terms with plain insults, suggesting a playful method to detect real affection. It hints at gossip about Dick and Katharine’s engagement.
A Chicago Daily News bit mocks the line never too late to mend as Rounder’s husband keeps her awake past midnight to mend his shirts and stockings, reversing the idea of reform. The exchange humorously shows domestic routines becoming a new marriage test.
The dialogue notes Gunner speaks of a wife who collects cigar bands. She gathers bands to decorate plates then gives them to Bluffem who places them around his stories to imply smoking a cheap cigar. The exchange appears in a Chicago Daily News excerpt.
A suave barber formerly of the funny pages gives a patron a haircut described as comic. The exchange notes the barber’s past as a cartoonist and suggests his style was the source of the humorous result. The Chicago Daily News quotes the humorous back and forth.
A joked exchange from the Detroit Free Press where Mrs John-John questions Mrs J about eating quickly and John replies he wants to finish a book titled How to Aid Digestion by Properly Masticating the Food.
A witty exchange contrasts debt with the ease of obtaining credit in a comic aside. A speaker chides another for debt while the other argues that being able to get credit is a kind of advantage. An unseen line about a man in Two Rivers adds local color.
A brief exchange notes skepticism over a treatment advertised to cure consumption. A consumptive drug clerk defends the medicine, while the customer questions its effectiveness, reflecting wartime era patent medicine rhetoric in New York weekly print.
A fragment from a column notes a promise to marry and speculate on the outcome. The dialogue hints at social expectations and wedding plans, with slangy chatter about health and cure ideas lingering in the text. The piece reflects a humorous, gossipy newspaper voice.
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