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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
3
Julia Marlowe writes her endorsement of Peruna praising its digestion benefits and nerve nourishment. She asserts that strong digestion supports nerve centers and prevents nervous debility, emphasizing the remedy’s value.
A testimonial from Mrs. J. C. Jamison of Wallace California asserts Peruna aids nerves by aiding digestion. She describes six years of stomach trouble and nervous dyspepsia, a three month liquid diet, relapse after stopping medicine, and eventual full cure after using Peruna.
Mrs Jones recalls a market chat with a fish dealer noted for original ideas. She discusses a remark about a man becoming like what he most associates with, sharing her puzzled reaction in London.
In a frugal parlour, Matilda mocks a grand lamp shade gifted to Emily by a distant benefactor. Emily treasures the shade, while Matilda schemes to pass it on or return it, sparking a watchful, secretive longing in Emily as wedding plans unfold. The shade eventually returns to Emily, who hides it under her bed and cherishes its glow.
An English visitor, quoted in the New York Sun, argues Dickens erred in doubting Washington’s growth. He predicts a monumental cityscape around the Capitol, with the new union station and vast avenues shaping a future rival to Paris and Rome, and foresees Washington becoming the world’s most beautiful city.
A similar 1900s census shows Washington D C with 389 403 residents, 241 920 White and 97 453 Black, ranking with historic capitals and beating many U S cities in size. The article praises rising wealth, beauty, and prospects as the seat of government and a center of national prosperity.
The author tours the Capitol admiring four Trumbull paintings in the rotunda. He praises the lifelike portraits and notes the artist’s bold, self driven quest to chronicle revolutionary events as a graphicHistoriographer.
In the senate Senator Kean of New Jersey jokes that the clerk seems insane as a bill with a nested sequence of acts to amend an act is read. The exchange ends with approval when the bill passes despite the comic misnaming of its title.
William Bill Sulzer of New York, famed for his self styled one man filibuster, urges reporters to keep his name in coverage. He jokes about the publicity while on the floor, asking not to be left unnamed in print.
A Washington correspondent notes Representative Walter Smith of Iowa being told by a district constituent that the agricultural department is experimenting with a new variety of goodless tomato. The letter asks for seeds if the plant has been perfected.
An old newspaper snippet touts a $100 reward for Hall's Catarrh Cure and claims strong success against catarrh. It promotes internal use and blood/ mucous-surface action, with testimonials and a Toledo Ohio address for the manufacturer.
A historical note recalls how back country squatters lured kangaroos into pits and killed them using calico fences and clubs. Now rare skins fetch value and young kangaroo flesh plus tail soup are sought after as delicacies.
A Washington Star quip notes railway employes should not reveal station names to the public causing cautious speculation. The remark hints at secretive practices and the public’s desire to guess station identities.
Reader ad urges asking grocers for Our Pie. If stock is lacking at a few stores, mail the grocer’s name and 10 cents to D Zerta Food Co Rochester NY to receive a full size two pie ad tage free. Three kinds lemon chocolate custard to make tasty pies.
A Saint Prosper aphorism states the life of a woman unfolds in three epochs beginning with dreams of love, followed by experiencing love, and ending in regret.
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