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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1905
Page
7
Mrs Potts speaks on the joys and responsibilities of pregnancy and parenting. She cautions that distressing times can arise when a husband and wife face childlessness or loneliness due to medical issues such as womb displacement or weakness.
Mrs Anna Potts of Hot Springs Arkansas describes backache and menstrual irregularities suggesting womb displacement. She credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with improving health and fertility and urges others to try it and write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
Announcement from the Wa bash and Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads and the Western Maryland details changes in executive posts. C H Newton is named joint agent of the Wheeling and Lake Erie and Wabash Pittsburg terminal railroads at Toledo effective Dec 1. The general freight agent at St Louis will be abolished as S B Knight becomes industrial agent. Horace Clark resigns as general manager of Western Maryland and West Virginia Central and Alexander Robertson is named to replace him. Pred H Tristram will take the Chicago post as assistant general passenger agent, with R F Kelly moving to Pittsburg.
A brief humor item from Milwaukee Sentinel describes Norah proving a clever student while Uncle Jageby and Mrs Hoola cause minor frictions. A mule and an auto provoke trouble as a man complains an umbrella with initials was taken and traced to a transferred loan from a friend who moved away.
A speech between Mrs Beacon Street and Norah humorously riffs on proper terms and manners. A bride-to-be shops for food and asks for eggs, debating whether to buy case eggs or hens eggs as she remembers her mother’s preference.
A humorous exchange appears as a caricature about a fiancé and fiancée, with captions playing on a quip about a mule and an auto. The dialogue shows banter over apologies and making up, reflecting light social humor of the era.
In a church last Sunday, Sniffkins dodged the collection plate. Hicks recalls Wicks saying Sniffkins paid the pastor's fare in the car this morning. They joke the debt is now square.
A child teases another about losing a ball while the elder insists they never misplace items. The exchange highlights a family moment on memory and caution as a parent scolds a child for poor search habits.
A doctor, witty and quick, chats with a tombstone maker in his yard. The two exchange quips about illness and contingencies, with the stonecutter noting practical limits to medical sympathy and memory phrases. The exchange ends with a wry remark on handling patients.
A fragmentary account quotes Ruflon Wratz denying theft and claiming no chance given. Saymord Storey responds angrily about election returns, calling Wratz foolish and suggesting he should have known better.
A mosaic of brief items cites social quirks in hotels with women sending letters and bells rung for service, plus humorous verses, medicine ads for Dodd's Kidney Pills, a critique of shoe laces and starch, a political note on German Socialists receiving gifts, and a historical building purchase by General J Watts de Peyster.
Instructions describe building a folding sewing screen with two uprights and three cross pieces, blue fabric accents, pockets for tools and patterns, and decorative hinges and hooks. Variations include curved top or shelf, with cretonne and brass tacks, plus storage for needles, threads, and small items.
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