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Newspaper
Wadsworth Dispatch
Location
Wadsworth, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1898
Page
2
Multiple short items advertise sale and saleable goods. The notices include bathtubs and bathing access, furniture and cottage for sale, real estate offerings, property choices for buyers, fencing lumber and shingles from suppliers, and lumber prices. Names of vendors include E Olinghoust Foulks and Powning Verdi and Reno with pricing notes such as ten dollars per thousand for common lumber.
A local shop announces fresh candies and nuts stock along with a first class selection of cigars tobacco and stationery. The notice invites customers to call for mail and visit the store to see new items, mentioning names AWW MACPHERSON T C Bailing Wadaworth.
In a Chicago Post piece, a bachelor visits his old college friend the benedict who boasts of home life and children. The benedict contrasts married ease with bachelor independence, while the bachelor asserts there is nothing homelike about bachelor quarters. The tale uses dialogue to poke at domestic happiness.
A young man tests his future with the old man by bluffing about wealth and living standards. The old man challenges him with a test of support. The tale from Chicago Post pivots on wit as the bluff is called. A clerk jokes about gloves priced at a dollar seventy five and an extra small size. Two handy household tips are shared: half a lemon demonstrates soap substitutes and shoe polishing uses an orange on a sooty kettle.
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