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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1907
Page
8
A Westminster Gazette recounts Mr. Gladstone’s interrupted Leeds speech on women’s suffrage. He compliments the eloquence of the ladies and notes how the audience enjoyed his remark before a Yorks dialect voice from the back provoked broad laughter with a quip about marriage.
How's This We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh. F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo O. Walding Kinnan Marvin Toledo O endorse. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally. Testimonials free. Price 1. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A Richmond minister, granting a wedding to a young Negro couple, faces a poignant moment when the bride answers the marriage question with blunt humor about her husband’s faults. The scene shows social limits and personal resolve in a tense interracial context.
A sale listing advertises 400 head of choice native feeding cattle weighing 1000 to 1200 pounds all reds and roans of fine quality located at Gladwin Iowa. Buyers invited to inspect on October 3. Blanchard and Giesler note the sale.
Government statistics show wealth production high in the ec growth region as the Minneapolis and St. Louis extension is completed. Excursion tickets to Iowa territories are offered for fifteen days at 10 dollars from Oskaloosa and four dollars from Brighton with descriptive folder on request. Contact B Cutts, G P and T A, Minneapolis for details.
The notice announces daily on sale until October 15 one way tickets to Oregon Washington Irish Columbia Utah Montana Idaho and Mexico at $15.00 below regular fare. Travelers should call on agents for particulars. Minneapolis, Minn.
Raymond, alone in his home, receives a late night telegram-like note about ten dollar overcoats. The mock message stirs his anger until he phones Washington seeking the clerk who wore a telegraph uniform. The joke backfires as he learns no real contact was made and he ends in peaceful sleep.
A woman recalls leaving a dance when Clara runs into Charlie Spooner in a crowded car. He does not offer her a seat, prompting Maud to remark perhaps he knew she had sat all evening.
A nursemaid tale shows a little old couple on a small farm with a cow horse and dog. The cow kicks the woman, Tipsy runs to fetch the man, who races home to rescue her. The doctor heals her as Tipsy is praised and the cow is sold to a dairyman, with Tipsy visiting his friend daily.
The Cape hosts rare flora including a tinted ood thorny plant that glows green at tip and burns slowly like a candle. Euphorbia trees reach up to forty feet, with rigid branches resembling a candelabra and the arch of Titus Jewish candlestick, producing an uncanny dusk grove for travelers.
The text describes how various cultures prepare insects as food. In India ants are mixed into batter and baked, in Brazil ants are grilled, Romans gathered white acacia worms to cook, some Australian tribes eat them alive claiming an egg flavor, and in China white worms on cabbage are fattened with apples and bananas for better taste.
A duke in Moravia ruthless in anger spares Bruno the falconer after learning the falcons died. Bruno survives a duke chase by a wild bison and saves the duke, earning knighthood. He encircles a hill with bison skin, earning land and honor, and later builds Helfenstein Castle in memory of the rescue.
A short instructional fragment shows looping strong twine through a pair of scissors and fastening it. The text conveys a basic prop setup for a magic or misdirection trick and hints at a pictured method.
A puzzle describes a loop fixed to a knob or check and instructs each person to attempt freeing scissors without cutting or untangling twine. The solution says pass the loop through the small opening at the handle and then thread the scissors through the loop to escape.
Tommy explains nervousness to his mother by saying it means being in a hurry all over. The lively child describes the feeling after watching a race in simple terms.
In a Youth's Companion tale a child invites dolls to an afternoon tea hosted by Miss Winifred Mckee. One doll Rosa, blind in one eye and with a crooked wig, is kept at home. Four dolls are blind and two lame, yet the narrator notes affection for each despite flaws.
The account recalls Jay Gould's finances in 1873 tied to gold market swings and his ultimately restored wealth. Years later rumors questioned his character, leading Gould to present stock certificates worth millions to a group of gentlemen in his private office and offer an extra 20 million if they wished.
The text describes a Korean woman who has no personal name in society. A childhood nickname fades at maturity, and adults refer to her as the sister or daughter of a relative. After marriage she is buried under a title, becoming nameless to others, while parents refer to the district she joined. If children arrive she is called the mother of them. A judge in court may grant her a temporary title to streamline proceedings.
The London Standard notes a monumental seventy foot New Guinean war canoe at Matupi. The vessel could carry six and a half tons on deck and outrigger, with carved figureheads at both ends and a palm tree outrigger carved and hollowed for buoyancy.
A brief dialogue shows He-Mother urging a good wife while She counters claiming She will make him a good husband, reflecting expectations around marriage roles.
A French gamekeeper on patrol chased a poacher but lost him on the road. A motorist invited him to ride to follow the culprit, then dumped him in Place de la Concorde as the car drove off. He pawned his gun to pay the return train fare.
A Baltimore American quote spoofs a young singer calling her voice thin and notes it is so thin she could sing in a skeleton kew.
Advertises Foley's Kidney Cure as a cure for all kidney and bladder diseases. Claims it strengthens the whole system and ensures good health by purifying the blood through proper kidney function. Sold by all druggists.
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