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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1898
Page
1
New York chemist T A Slocum claims a universal cure for consumption and bronchial diseases with his New Scientific Treatment. He offers three free bottles to readers who write to 93 Pine Street New York and mention seeing the offer in the typicaToR.
A collection of notes on the spread of tea and coffee in Europe with dates and places from Venice to Leipsic 1645 1694 and comments on porcelain cups and Chinese imitation porcelain. It includes a tale of Asaph Hall Harvard and a Swiss Alps sun rise complaint from J Ropison Liverpool in Youths Companion.
The London Graphic notes a new anticorset league inviting men to join. It claims the aim is to expose the ugliness and futility of corsets as women continue to wear items deemed masculine approved. The piece humorously predicts male attendance at these discussions.
The New York Sun notes Welsh rabbit is not a corruption but a colloquial dish name with many regional aliases. It lists American and British slang terms such as Jersey lightning for whisky, Cape Cod turkeys for codfish, Albany beef for sturgeon, and others like Essex stile a ditch and Jerusalem pony a donkey, illustrating how foods acquire varied local monikers. The piece treats food slang as a broad, territorially flavored phenomenon.
A Cleveland Leader tale reports a lady on Euclid Place refusing a hungry knight of the road who asks for meat bread or fire and finally for a basket to feed his starving family. The exchange shows stern charity and sharp wit from the resident.
A severe old lady asks what a man is doing on the street corner. A giddy girl replies Maw is home making a quilt while she herself is out making a spread. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the playful exchange.
A Detroit drummer recalls a Wisconsin friend Jim Huff elected to Congress after a fake nomination in 1890. The hoax involved posters and newspaper mock endorsements, with Huff unaware until election day, prompting a Peru trip and a special election to replace him.
A fragment highlights the idea that wisdom lies in knowing when to stop talking. It contrasts the great brain with the prudent restraint of starting or continuing a journal, emphasizing timing in communication.
The narrative recalls General Banks directing firefighters in Alexandria as flames spread and troops retreated. Banks wore uniform and helped with a bucket brigade while critics note his bravery but question his executive ability, a joke in the war about Confederate raiders taking his supplies. Colonel Rice comments on Banks being bold yet lacking in organization.
Max Muller recalls Tennyson's quirkily dramatic temper when he quit tobacco, later resuming with a garden salvage of a broken pipe and a few puffs that restored his mood. The reminiscence portrays a genial yet volatile poet who wrestled with smoking.
A London manufacturer sought a clerk and received hundreds of applications while his wife advertised for a general servant and found none. A joking suggestion to a young married applicant led to his hiring as a houseworker on the spot. He proved so successful that other households adopted the plan.
Fragmentary text suggests Brown Jones recalls his alma mater and contrasts with Robinson He. Mentions teaching a baby the college yell and references to Scottish Nights and Philadelphia Times in a garbled transcript.
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