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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1897
Page
7
A brief essay extolls readiness for winter and promotes St Jacobs Oil as a universal cure for rheumatic pain. It asserts the product’s universal efficacy, urging readers to rely on the well known remedy to ease suffering.
A professor asks about heredity and cites family traits while a student notes a strong resemblance between a brother and his father. The punchline reveals both wear glasses, illustrating a visible hereditary trait. The Washington Star excerpt plays on the idea of genetic likeness.
Advertisement pitches Grain-O as a coffee substitute made from peregrain and a beverage claiming to be cheering nutritious and strengthening. It touts gentle effects on digestion and sleep, claims better flavor after a week, and lists prices 15 and 25 cents per package. The PISO Co. of Warren Pa guarantees testimonials, with a $1000 for genuine claims.
In Chicago Chronicle style narration a fox terrier on the second flat disturbs the morning paper on the third flat marring pages. The third floor family reacts outraged and enlists Nero a neighbor’s St Bernard to deter the terrier. A gate is built and Wilson the third man buys a dog.
The article discusses the weldability of metals, noting gold, silver and platinum weld well when cold. It lists ductility and malleability rankings with gold as the most malleable, describing extraordinary thinness and long wire experiments. It cites the St Louis Globe Democrat.
The Wabash announces the California Flyer will resume on Wednesday October 20 1897 offering premier service to California via the Wabash in connection with Atchison Topeka Santa Fe. First class vestibuled sleeping cars through from St Louis to Los Angeles with no change, nineteen hours faster from St Louis than competing lines. For tickets contact a Wabash agent or C S Crane General Passenger and Ticket Agent St Louis MO.
An Attalasvent quotes Walte Washington stating it is impossible for a man to attain perfection. He asks who has reached that stage and notes Miss Cayenne told him this morning that he is a perfect bore.
Nickel Plate Road announces excursion fares for groups of three or more to local points on the line. In Western Ohio and Indiana, and for single tickets to Northwest and Southwest destinations, special rates are offered.
A Greytown location on Nicaragua’s eastern coast records 207 inches of annual rainfall while the Pacific coast averages only 6 inches. The text includes a quoted remark on liquor laws and thirst from a source labeled Puck.
A collage of humorous vignettes and wordplay about bishops, clergymen, and public figures. It sketches linguistic pranks with Welsh and German figures, a Chicago style editor Edison, and misheard classroom and household scenes, preserving slang and period voice.
A veteran gym director argues against shoulder braces and prescribes daily exercises to improve carriage. He details neck position, shoulder rolls, blade squeezing, and standing postures, plus activities like stairs and arm movements mimicking swimming to train erect alignment.
The Chicago Post notes a tall stooped man, disliked by neighbors for mean behavior and loud complaints. He bans bicycle paths, blocks peddlers, insults charity committees, and inflames local tension while enjoying exclusive rights and privacy. A guest ponders the paradox of desiring such unpopularity for the supposed advantages.
A garbled dialogue from two newspapers depicts a man fond of the classics rejecting a pursuit of a golden fleece while a swindled Krondiker refuses to chase it. A Cleveland Plain Dealer society belle references a facial palette blending red and white as part of a mixed context.
A rustic tale contrasts destitution with reliance on Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive and cure for dyspepsia cholera and other ailments. The joke about qualifications features a heavyset man seeking a government post and declaring himself all wool and a yard wide.
A Cincinnati Enquirer fragment notes Halrs Catarrh Cure as a constitutional core priced at 75 canta and discusses a woman's reasons for marriage tied to a rowan reference. The text mixes ad like phrases and personal reasoning.
An advertisement touts GRAIN-O as a grain based coffee substitute costing about a quarter of coffee. It claims gentler stomach effects, suitability for children, and easy acceptance as a coffee stand in grocery stores. It also mentions a German emperor with hundreds of carriages and travel routes to the Northwest Southwest and Indiana.
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