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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1907
Page
3
Robbie dislikes soup and fumbles to grow by cutting clothes. His ruse backfires when he is made to wear the spoiled suit for a month and still eats soup. A second tale recounts a Wisconsin boy waking by being pitched into a pond, a method joked as an unpatented invention for reluctant risers.
A schoolteacher asks Jamie how large a dessert piece would be for seven people and Jamie answers one sixth. He notes his mother would not be hungry that day, reflecting a humorous exchange from Youth's Companion.
Winnipeg correspondence reports high yields from sown grain in Western Canada despite May sowing delays and early August frost. Southern Alberta expects large winter wheat yields on 100000 acres. The letter from Craik Saskatchewan notes a dahlia that bloomed in 80 days, illustrating soil productivity.
A West Side NY house call reveals a naïve Irish servant girl who, when asked if her mistress is home, thrusts her face forward and says in a rich brogue, “Put th' tickets In me month, ma'am, an' I'l go an' see. Me hands is w t.”
A dated instruction touts a cough and cold cure using glycerine pine oil and whisky. It claims a teaspoon to tablespoon dose every four hours will cure a curable cough or break an acute cold in 24 hours. Notes pine oil sold in half ounce sealed vials for medicinal use only and warns other pine oils cause nausea. Also mentions autos in Prestor John's Country with a German concession to build a road between Addis Abeba and Directuna, six days by caravan, two days by car.
Two middle aged women discuss sickness of two children with one saying the doctor calls it "epidemic." The piece mentions a one hundred dollar reward for cures by Hall's Cararrh Cure and notes fake testimonials. A brief aside references training a lion for exhibition.
A collage of ad blurbs and brief notices: testimonials for Dean's Kidney Pills claiming dramatic weight gain and cure, Defiance Starch and starch products touting strength and finish, notes on Japanese gender ratios, commentary on English athletics and amateurism, quips on experience and certainty in recipes, and a quatrain about virtue by Cicero.
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