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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1908
Page
6
A humorous exchange ends with the goose slipping in mud and learning a lesson about crossing the road. The hen teases the goose for not being wise enough to avoid danger, while the goose recovers and reflects on the incident.
A man explores a night encounter as he lights a cigar and asks about matches. She prefers parlor matches. A week later he has squandered half his savings on an engagement rig.
Mrs Wrenter spent the day chasing apartments with glib agents who promised listings. She sighed the search offered nothing but sharps and flats as she gave up.
Advice on home cleanliness and germ prevention cites Borax as a practical disinfectant and cleaner. The piece urges treating sanitary faults from sinks and drains, promotes Borax as safe and versatile, and offers a free color booklet from the Pacific Coast Borax Co in Chicago.
Madeline Amelia Clyde known as Maddy, raised by aging Grandfather Markham and Grandmother in a red cottage, after her mother died and father vanished at sea, signs as a schoolteacher candidate in Devonshire. Guy Hemington tests her fitness beside Dr Holbrook. she struggles with Latin grammar and logic while pleading to begin. The scene blends family hardship, small-town ambition, and a coming attempt to secure a three-dollar-a-week teaching post to save the home.
Little Ommy attends Sunday school in his first trousers. A picture of angels is shown and the teacher asks if he wants to be a little angel. He refuses, saying he would have to give up his new pants.
A disputed exchange shows Arlen chiding his valet Hoskin for carelessness. The talk centers on neglecting clothing, a missed brush, and a dollar left in a vest pocket as evidence of routine fault.
A fragmented verse style mocks a teacher and a boy named Tommy debating Asia Minor. The lines imply a humorous misheard pronunciation and playful confusion about regional names and age, presented in a rough, lyric strip.
The piece laments the 60th Congress from Dec 2 to Dec 21 as ineffective with minimal lasting work. It notes delayed committee announcements, idle bills, and a Christmas adjournment, while highlighting post office and railroad mail routing issues, Tawney’s retrenchment stance, and key committee chair appointments.
The Subject Exhauater Mr Highsome reads aloud to his wife but she urges skipping marine news. He protests about ocean vessel movements but relents and turns to the sporting page, hinting at a past crossing last spring that satisfied his curiosity.
Frank J. Cheney swears as senior partner of Cheney & Co to pay one hundred dollars for each case of incurable catarrh. The claim cites Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood affecting remedy. The firm’s Toledo address and druggist distribution are noted. unrelated Dover and Weyland interior project aims for completion in 1910 to house fifty men of war.
The Peruna Lucky Day Almanac has become a fixture in over eight million homes and is obtainable free from druggists. The 1908 edition is published and supplies will soon exhaust. Speak for one today. English physicians complain hospital department competition is ruinous and unfair.
An auction style note references a single “Bromo Quinine” laxative for FE Grove and claims worldwide use to cure a gold in one day. It also mentions the Queen of Italy offering an international prize for the first aeronaut to cross the Alps by balloon and lists Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething with a 25 cent price.
The clergyman misreads a Bible page when Noah is described as taking a wife and the ark’s dimensions. He jokes that this proves “we are fearfully and wonderfully made,” as he admits the oddly connected verses came from glued pages.
A Maine coast lighthouse keeper faced discipline after extinguishing the lamp at 10 pm on his first night. He argued that honest men should be in bed by that hour, believing ten o clock was late enough to keep the light out.
Two men exchange sharp riffs in a crowded scene as one recalls a past sweetheart from Oshkosh. The dialogue reveals humor and nostalgia through barbed humor about marriage and sentiment.
A railroader recounts constant indigestion and dieting hardships, claiming Grape Nuts breakfast cereal cured his symptoms. After starting the food, he reports restored appetite, renewed energy, seven pound gain, and no indigestion for weeks, touting the product as the "Perfect Food" by Ponty Co Battle Creek Mich.
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