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Newspaper
Waynetown Despatch
Location
Waynetown, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1903
Page
4
A nostalgic sales pitch extols Lough's clothing line offering suspenders hats caps and bows shoes and underwear at discounted prices. The ad urges shoppers to buy this year to avoid overpaying and to gain value for their money while asserting the seller’s superior goods and savings.
Upper Fountain C E Short was in Covington on Monday. James Murray is under physician care. Mrs Lennie Short was in Indianapolis last week. J H Newlin preached at Long View Illinois last Sunday. Clarence Hummel of Newtown paid a flying visit last week. Frank Campbell matriculated Purdue University for a short course in agriculture. Norris West returned to Hartford City after extended visit with relatives here. Mrs Will Edwards and children of Veedersburg visited at E E Nin’s from Friday through Sunday. Teachers of Cain Richland and Van Buren townships will meet in joint institute at Hillsboro Saturday. S M Compton of Irvington has been employed as pastor of Antioch church and will begin first Sunday in February. Third feature of season's lecture course will be in Hillsboro Saturday evening January 10. John Temple Graves of national reputation will be the orator. Our school houses were opened Monday after Christmas vacation. Teachers and pupils resumed duties after ten days of social successes.
Four house options range from six to four rooms with two lots up to 21% acre plots. Features include wells cisterns cellars barns wagon sheds summer kitchens and fruit variety. Prices span 425 to 900 dollars for houses and 55 to 86 dollars per acre for farms.
A visitor compliments a bric-a-brac collector on an antique table. The collector touts it as the finest and oldest, while the visitor mentions an Arabic table over 2,000 years old. The twist: the relic is revealed as a multiplication table, with perfectly authentic history.
The article describes how Norwegians use skees for both sport and travel during long winters. It details wood choices like ash, measurements about ten feet long and four inches wide, and the unique binding loops and straps that allow complex foot movements while skating over deep snows.
The article notes right handed clothing design and Newton using the right eye before training the left, while some struggle with eye dominance. It mentions the Chinese favoring the left and Cameroon's heir with unnaturally long left nails as a status sign, implying nonuse of manual labor and a weapon for tearing meat.
A Kentucky colonel hosted a guest at Chamberlin's who declined the porterhouse with onions saying it gave him bad breath. The colonel quipped not to mind the odor but to wait for the bill which would take his breath away. The host then became the guest, and the bill did take the breath away.
A London Telegraph item recounts a showman displaying a cod sawn in half with a sign offering a two penny admission. A scholarly patron pays to enter, learns the trick, and departs muttering about education and deception. The tale underscores tricks of street entertainment in the era.
A historical reflection on women’s attire from Mrs Barbauld’s era describing stiff stays tight lacing high heels and towering headgear. It contrasts the oppressive orange circumference of corsets with the later shift to the shapeless short gown and sack worn for comfort during the day.
Kelburg near Cra cow Poland is built entirely underground in rock salt with streets and houses of white salt. The 3000 plus inhabitants work in the mines and the cathedral is carved in felt and lit by electric lights. Infectious disease is unknown and most residents die of old age.
A Boston servant, unused to memory, wonders if she is as old as the 106 year old woman in a newspaper story. She has lived eleven years with one family and has always claimed to be twenty eight, joking that she cannot recall a time before she was alive.
A January sale launches with many winter items discounted well below cost. The store emphasizes clearing odds and ends, broken lines, and remnants from stock as it introduces new lines at season start. Purchasers are urged to visit promptly to take advantage of the sale.
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