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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1907
Page
6
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat a feddy dealer asserts ivory rats can judge tusk quality. He explains workers are paid barely enough and that furrows in ivory surface indicate the material's value. Rats allegedly detect animal gelatin, enhancing the tusk’s worth.
Advertises discounted magazine subscriptions bundled with the Vindicator and Republican. Details multiple combinations with Cosmopolitan Harper's Bazaar World Today Review of Reviews and others, pricing, and deadlines. Also mentions cement tile production plans and inquiries for builders in South Dakota and Minnesota.
Farmers solicit farm produce offering highest market price for butter and cream. Advertises a “square deal” and fair trial at the South 6th Street place in CSTHERVILLE. Includes misspelled branding and unclear company name.
In a humorous debate at the Limekiln club, Brother Gardner challenges Brudder Shin and Brudder Jones about honesty and business morals. He cautions Shin on selling goods with fair dealing, warns Smith about starting a soap venture, and urges a return to square dealing as swindlers proliferate. The talk covers distrust of dishonest trades, rebating, and the rise of honest enterprise as a remedy.
Fragments show a heated exchange with a challenged bravado and a bluffing bet, lacking clear names or setting. The overheard dialogue hints at a confrontation where one speaker vows to prove a claim and the other resists wagering. The scene suggests a street dispute or streetcorner throttling of pride.
A satirical verse features Cupid lamenting the rise of a “great heart trust” as financiers shape love markets. He mocks flirtation stocks and shares in southern crops, widows, and matrons, insisting each trust will fail and leave him to resume his old schemes. Caralyn Walls in Pa
Old Dad Murphy a long time trunk line conductor answers with military brevity on a hot July day eight hogs die from heat aboard the train. A telegraph exchange with Supt Burhans yields terse updates with the standard format and status.
A traveling man at a hotel leans on the counter and confesses his loss. The clerk asks if it was valuable and if he had it when entering. The man nods twice and finally admits the item was his job, a revealing twist in a somber San Francisco Chronicle moment.
A London correspondent relays a north country teacher’s advice to use onions to curb disease in cholera or scarlet fever cases. She notes onions under beds as sweeping away illness and cites a past cholera outbreak where districts with many Italian onion eaters and hanging onions from ceilings appeared less afflicted. The medical officer of health attributed onions a powerful antidote against morbus cholerae and possibly other diseases.
Verdi labored to gain Victor Hugo's attendance for a Rigoletto performance. Hugo, in the box with Verdi, listened as the opera moved him, then quipped about the quartet and asked for a more beautiful writing from the composer.
A Forest and Stream correspondent explains how cypress knees form from stout roots that bend upward when meeting hard soil. They start as two and a half inch roots that buckle toward the surface, eventually growing together with a single bark sheath.
The article traces dentistry to ancient Egypt and Etruria with evidence from mummies and skulls showing fillings and artificial teeth. It credits Galen as the first writer on tooth treatment and notes John Greenwood introducing the science to America, settling in New York in 1788 and carving ivory teeth for General Washington in 1790 and 1795.
Chronicle quotes heated debate as a couple seeks a divorce amid parental objection. The exchange shows marital strain and social resistance reflected in the era, with emphasis on family authority and personal liberty in troubled unions.
A London Telegraph note recalls Huxley discussing nature’s healing power with Sir William Gull. Gull counters that in most cases nature does not heal but aims to put the man in his coffin. The remark captures a stark view of nature’s indifference to human cure.
In a hazy moment Mrs Smithers asks Henry about a noise in the library. He, sleepy, muses it may be history repeating itself and urges her to sleep. The exchange reads as a quiet domestic vignette with a hint of mystery.
A playful snippet shows tricky quotes about ease and taking candy from a baby, attributed to Pittaburg Fest humor with a Shakespearean twist. The fragment hints at a local vaudeville style line about pride and mastery in a comic context.
Strange requests mark historic funerals from Sir James Colquhoun’s desire to be buried in full dress to George Erring’s plan for a sundial grave. Queen Victoria oversaw her funeral programme, while a Reigate bride died in bridal dress with bridesmaids’ gowns guiding the procession. Major General Algernon Stewart’s Surrey burial featured a horse-drawn coffin, mourners in smocks bearing text collars, and the same bearers in church the next Sunday.
Mrs Farlow praises her husband for three mayoral terms while questioning whether a color blind man who brings home faulty wind toys and doubts his fitness is suitable for the office, reflecting domestic conflict and public scrutiny.
A South China Post excerpt describes a harsh foreign notion of handling infectious cases during an outbreak. It claims two foreigners would remove the sick, isolate them in a small room, wash them with lime water, and lock them away to die unseen. Families would cry while foreigners drove them away with sticks.
A St James Gazette note describes how Napoleons army in Egypt 1790 heard a Bedouin tune linked to the England song We Won t Go Home Till Morning. Bedouins reacted with electrical excitement claiming it to be the oldest and most popular tune of their people. The article suggests the melody may have reached Europe from Africa via Crusaders in the eleventh century.
The physician notes appetite as a major concern while the frugal man points out the balance between health worries with a poor appetite and expense worries with a good one, quoted from the Washington Star.
A comic exchange shows a bride noting her husband’s opinion about her. She quips that he is “one of those men who are, as their right hand know what left hand done,” reflecting a playful yet pointed marital tension.
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