Far and near items of interest from Our exchange table
Items from Greenville to Edwardsville and Belleville span a mix of local industry, travel mishaps, and odd anecdotes. Notes include a new gym in Greenville, brick production in Edwardsville, a fuel depot plan for East St Louis, and a stalled steam plant at Melvindre College. A 19 year old Milwaukee betrothal, a Smithboro hotel escape, and a calf collision on a passenger run add color, while a baptism tale ends with a fish in the preacher’s trousers. A cautionary piece warns against tongued pencils and dampened writing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwardsville
Standard Oil Go
East St. Louis
Ben
MelCendree College
Lebanon
Smithboro
Park Hotel
Milwaukee
Trenton
West End
Belleville
Choosing a Wife Advice Note Card
A dated advisory piece cautions men against marrying talkative or vain women. It urges selecting a kind, deeply loving partner with untarnished reputation and stable temperament, warning against flirtation and frivolity as predictors of a poor wife.
Choosing a Husband Advice and a Political Quip
A fragmentary column offers old fashioned matrimony guidance urging caution in selecting a spouse and stresses mutual love and traditional roles. It also advertises Hood s Sarsaparilla and Hood s Pills as cures. A Sedalia Sentinel snippet reports Congressman Tracey being challenged with a German heckler asking when he would live up to free silver positions.
Something to Depend On Dr Jones Praises King's New Discovery
Mr James Jones of Jones and Son Cowden II reports his wife’s severe grippe last winter improved after using Dr Kings New Discovery He claims a few bottles cured her and endorses the remedy for consumption coughs and colds Kingston Drug Store offers free trials The tale ends with a child reporting a strange clock sound in a rural room
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Jones
Jones & Son
Cowden, II
Dr. King
Kingston’s
Also Mentioned on This Page
Greenville
Dalon Station
St. Louis
He. Equitable Powder Works
Alton
Feriendahip
Gibaon
Rush
Poxtotoc Sentinel
Attalia
Collinsville
Atlanta Constitution
Aithy
Hood
Tracey Downed
Sedalia (Mo) Sentinel
Dracy
Dot
F. F. Miller
E. Ritcher
Notsry Public
Atorneys
Fn Real Estate
Troy
James N. Jarvis
Polich
Notary Public
Comvetander
F. W. Zanders
Opera House
Albert Kleit
Main Street
Public Square
Knight Cycle CO
14Th St
St, Louis, MO
Gente
Alpaca Dreas
Proctor & Gamble
Lenox
Columbia River
Bradford
Lautz Bros
Urs
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