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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1891
Page
6
A vintage advertisement touts Button's Raven Gloss as the superior shoe dressing for all leather items. It warns against substitutes, claiming Raven Gloss preserves feather and gives a natural new appearance with no equal. Ladies are urged to beware imitations.
The Boston Shoe Store advertises Raven Glass Dressing and a wide range of boots and shoes. It promises bargains on ladies and gents holiday slippers, claiming top quality at county-low prices.
A collage of poems and health notes from Harper’s Weekly and journals discuss memory and wisdom in youth, meal habits, and nursing diet. It notes Sir Andrew Clark on excessive meals, advocates three simple daily meals, and warns against overfeeding children while stressing nourishing basics. It cites rubber footwear dangers and foot care advice amid muddy streets.
Jeanne Franko notes her autograph album holds pride rivaling her violin. It includes autographs of Wieniawski Remenyi Patti Nilsson Rubinstein Essipport Hoffman Thomas Darmrosch Send Joseffy and more though many sign poorly. A witty entry reads I wasnt born I was quarried Henry Adonis Disey. Patti once signed last then Christine Nilsson later.
The narrator chats with a fat faced Norse streetcar conductor whose calm dignity and love of the sea shine through. He describes daily work, visiting the wharf to see ships, and Twenty five years at sea fueling dreams of distant waters and tarred rope.
Samuel Andrews of Cleveland aims for a room hailed as the finest Louis XVI decoration in the nation. The project's $33,000 cost reflects a cream and gold scheme with sixty-two electric lights, tape relief ceiling, flowering cupids, onyx mantles in gold and ivory, and cream and gold furniture inlaid with white cedar.
Lasting remarks discuss archaic kiss practices with tongues and labrets, note a Monthly reference, and segue into health advice about bunions and cold cream. The piece touches on flies as nuisances, Edgar Fawcett's stance on dialect in literature, and a historical misbordering claim by Lorenzana regarding California and New Mexico.
A Broadway hatter recalls changes in hat sizes over thirty years noting most customers now wear sizes 7 to 7 7. He claims salesmen can judge nationality by head shape with Americans tending toward long heads while German and Irish heads fit specific shapes. The piece observes English speaking heads growing more alike with age.
A Washington Letter details an African snake that feeds on eggs. The creature bears a forward projecting tooth behind the head used to crack shells, enabling digestion without biting the egg. Its jaws extend widely due to a flexible ligament and rear-attached lower jawbones allowing a large gape.
A tangential tale begins with a tall man debating pie types with a clam vendor, joking about clams and sickness after eating berries, then shifts to a deer skin wall mount in a Cleveland Leader note, and finally praises the Grolier Club for scarce exquisite books with prices and vellum copies.
A fragmented local scene recounts a missing stray pug, a bulldog attack, and odd household mishaps, amid random notes about a boy reporting a dog being torn by a bulldog and a girl offering payment for the pet. a distractingly mixed set of quotes follows, including a Detroit Free Press anecdote about a clothes wringer and Sir John Lubbock’s long serving queen bee.
An old sales pitch asserts that a competing soap is “just as good as the Ivory” though not the genuine article. It urges customers to ask for Ivory Soap and insist on it, noting it is sold widely everywhere.
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