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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1905
Page
15
A newlywed wife seeks a birthday gift for her husband and, advised by J. E. Lemmon, selects Wadsworth Bros Chicos cigars. The husband lauds the choice, praising quality, price, and continued use, while Lemmon promotes Chicos as a nine cent cigar by the Havana filler, suitable for long smoke and value.
Tampa man Ralph F Fernandez recounts his life threatening battle with liver trouble and heart disease. After ineffective doctors and medicines he credits Electric Bitters with a quick recovery and renewed life, purchased at Stewart's drug store for 60 cents.
A Yankee visitor recounts entering Rio de Janeiro, admiring the harbor and twin islands, then navigating rickety carriages, crowded streets named for nobility, and a pink hotel with sky-high baths. Polite Brazilian hosts, military out riders, and police whistle chains frame daily life amid hotel surcharges and extravagant bouquets.
In the western China’s Chienchang valley wax insects produce pure white wax on Ligustrum leidum trees high in the mountains. Females travel 200 to 400 miles to start wax production near flowering ash plants, transported at night by thousands of carriers to distant wax farms as day heat endangers the delicate insects.
An Earl of Chesterfield once faced Voltaire in France who asked which ladies were finer English or French. Chesterfield replied he could not judge paintings. Later in London Voltaire teased by a rouged lady, Chesterfield warned him not to be captivated, to which Voltaire quipped about French colors.
The tune sprang from Frederick Prince of Wales who at Clifden House in August 1740 urged Thomson to write lyrics for a mask celebrating George I’s accession and Princess Augusta’s birthday. Dr Arne set them to music. Handel used the opening bars in 1746. Mallet issued an altered version in 1751 replacing stanzas, which Sir George Ve criticized as a failed mutilation.
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