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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1907
Page
6
A promotional notice for Sunset Magazine describing a monthly issue with short stories and scenic photography. It invites readers to subscribe for $1.50 yearly and mentions a forthcoming book Road of a Thousand Wonders with 120 Western views in four colors. Published in California, Flood Building, San Francisco.
A local newspaper ad promotes bundled subscriptions with Cosmopolitan Magazine The World Today Harper's Bazaar Woman's Home Companion and more at reduced prices. It touts the value of combining magazines with the weekly Vindicator and Republican, urging quick response before stock runs out. It also mentions cement tile production and plant upgrades with a corporate contact in Minneapolis Minnesota.
An OCR fragment advertises paying the highest market price for butter futures and offers a square deal for a certain item. It mentions a person or entity at a sixth street location and includes garbled names and phrases, indicating a past commerce-style notice.
In Barkersville two sensational events unfold as Professor Gordon and his chimpanzees are implicated in a series of clever burglaries while a jealous lover pairs with Miss Jennie Wren after a staged confrontation. The Daily Herald details a Boston visitor, a thwarted courting plot, a horsewhip pursuit, and a final rapprochement and hinted marriage as the town reels from nightly thefts and romantic entanglements.
In a tale from Youth's Companion Mr Beal struggles with memory despite family schemes from his wife to his youngest daughter-in-law. A trial with a cord tied to his thumb leads to a mistaken memory, prompting care and a sip of tea as relief.
A well known Allegheny clergyman spoke at a religious service in Woods Tun where one convict stood out. After the service the clergyman urged reform and the convict pledged to live an exemplary life until death. The clergyman pressed for certainty, and the convict affirmed he would never commit another crime.
A Chicago truth seeker says the average hotel clerk faces a bleak fate. He cannot marry on wages, saves little, and risks being displaced by youth. If aged, options are night clerk, cloakroom duties, or drifting to the almshouse, a dreary forecast from Collier's Weekly.
The New York Medical Journal argues against fixed age limits for sports noting wide individual variation. It urges lifelong, daily strenuous exercise and a holistic routine including eating, drinking, sleeping, and pleasures. It warns future generations would suffer if life and education plans are not equally comprehensive.
A historical note describes Baroda keeping a hundred elephants and executing criminals in brutal fashion. A condemned man tied hand and foot with a rope around the waist was dragged by an elephant through the city, bruised and maimed, then beheaded with the elephant crushing his head on a block if he survived the trek.
Astronomers lack a generally accepted theory on sun spots and their cause but note a likely connection to earthly phenomena. The frequency curves for magnetic storms and the aurora borealis closely match the sun spot frequency curve.
A quirky item reports a thief who robbed a railroad eating house was chased but slowed by heavy plunder. The thief, said to be fifty, carried money and silverware yet reportedly escaped with only doughnuts. Milwaukee Sentinel notes the odd detail.
Thackeray died poor despite a large pen income and generosity. Close friend John Leech found him at work and lamented the monotony. Leech urged a holiday and a chance to enjoy life with his daughters, but Thackeray offered no reply.
The article notes the condor's immense strength and boldness. It describes the bird gripping and tearing prey with a single claw while using the other and its beak to rend it. After feeding, the bird becomes immobile and resistant to further approach or capture.
A Swiss man from St Gall advertised as a widower to rid himself of his wife by showing his wife the piles of photographs and letters he had received, threatening that if she did not change, others would take his place, a method reported by Petit Parisien.
A Chicago News item notes a Sunday school teacher saying all humans must die and asks what comes after dying. A boy answers with a humorous quip about cleaning and pressing, reflecting the tone of a lighthearted Bible lesson.
The Englishwoman's Review notes that qualities like intellect, grit, and industrious endeavor have raised Scotland to prominence and mark Scotchwomen similarly. It contrasts reading with action, suggesting we feel martyrdom in reading but deafness to provocation when acting, as Hannah More observed.
The passage traces El Dorado from P Sarro’s scout reporting vast lands between the Orinoco and the Amazon. It notes adventurers, including Sir Walter Raleigh, sought the legendary place, making El Dorado a golden idea of wealth and luxury rather than a real country.
A seedy philosopher declares his idea of perfect happiness as being able to enter a top restaurant, cover the menu prices, and order what he desires regardless of a dwindling wallet, during a fourth round at the free lunch counter.
Bertie questions the definition of an egotist while Father explains an egotist as the man who claims he is smarter than anyone else. Mother adds that such claims may reveal overconfidence and misperception in others.
A visitor in a city hospital’s children’s surgery ward observes a boy with both legs roped and suspended by weights. A physician explains this method prevents movement and keeps splints in place for comfort, even though one leg is injured.
A New York Press quirky remark from a humorist on the burden of entertaining crowds. The Pittsburg Dispatch adds a dental quip about chambermaids losing upper teeth from pillowcase use, explained by a downtown dentist as wear from replacing with artificial teeth.
A wife serving a Sunday dinner complains to her husband that the sponge cake failed due to the druggist sending the wrong kind of sponges. The husband, a fond lover of sponge cake, asks how it happened and she explains the misdelivery led to a total failure.
In a Washington Star snippet Mr Meekton's wife asks about the secret of Bolo man's wisdom. Leonidas answers with a concise line noting he had many wives. The remark humorously links wisdom to a large domestic empire.
A Chicago News item quips about manners in a short exchange where Little Margie offers candy to her papa and Mam ma hesitates, pondering politeness and sharing. The playful line contrasts trust and politeness within a domestic vignette.
A Harpers Weekly sermon in a small Glatzen church quotes a pastor urging effort over slothfulness. The climax line asks if Adam and Eve wandered Eden with hands in their pockets, underscoring a call to active virtue.
A garbled London Punch item notes a dry spot amid heat and asks if T can scratch a match. It mentions Boatman who has been appointed regarding refreshments and refers to throat comfort or relief.
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