davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13
Eree.

We will give | bbl Sunshine Flour
for the first and most suitable name
sent us for our new breakfast food.
This offer closes April 1. Help us;
it costs you nothing. Send sugges-
ton to
DAHNKE- WALKER MILLING Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13
Remarkable Offer.

For So. so we can send you The
Commercial, Obion County's best
paper, and The Nashville Daily
News one year. If you are now a
subscriber to The Commercial and
desire to do so you can get The
News one year for $3.50. Address
The Commercial,
Union City, Tenn.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

See Walden Woosley and leave
with him an expiration for fire in
surance or take an engagement for
talk on life insurance and hear
the New York Life's many advan-
tages. He can also buy, sell or
rent your property.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

The bridge near the Steam Laun-
dry is being repaired.
Mrs. ]. c. Reynolds has returned
from a visit to Murphysboro, Ill.
Rev, Sam Wynn is visiting his
mother in Tiptonyille, who is very
sick.
Mrs. McM1llin has returned to
Martin after a visit with Mrs. c. P.
Hardy.
The ]. F. F. Club will meet Sat
urday afternoon with Miss Hattie
McRee.
Mrs. White Fleming. of Hornbeak,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Sam
Wynn, in the city.
The Leonidas Polk Chapter, U.
N. D. c., meets with Mrs. Belle
Waddell Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. L. Bransford are
at Crystal Springs, Miss, and will
be gone about month, visiting the
Florida coast.
Mrs. Mamie G. Carter has moved
to the resid Re vacated by Henry
Hassler on Main street. Mr.. and
Hassler have moved to Fifth street
opposite Mr.. Semones' residence.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13
~ n N = StNlAf
Union City, Tenn.

The Modern Hair Remover is a
standard hair and scalp remedy.
Try it for gray hair. Try it for
that bald spot on the top Of your
head. Polk's.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

The new breakfast food made by
the Dahnke- Walker Milling Co. is
made of the heart and very best
parts of selected winter wheat.
TRY it-llke it
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

/
lis very sick.
Master Erwin Griffin was very
sick this week.
Mr. Joe A. Latimer, Of Gait, On
Itario, is in the city.
Or. J. H. Shelton, of Jordan, was
here on business yesterday.
Mrs. Hughes, Of Fulton, is the
guest of Mrs. Seth Parkman,
Wallace Moore has returned tc
st. Louis to resume business.
Mrs. Jones, of Jackson, is here
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Buckner.
Tie w. c. T. U. met with with
Mrs. Penick Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Smith, Of
Troy, spent the day in the city last
Monday.
Mr.. Tom Dean, who has beer
crippled for a couple Of weeks, is
out again.
Mr. A. Roper is travelling over
the western section of Kentucky
prospecting.
Mrs. S. M. Hubbard, of Hickman,
was the guest Of Mrs. B. F. Beck,
ham, Main street, this week.
Miss Essie Tisdale entertained
last Thursday at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. R. f. Tisdale.
Mrs. Bomar and little grand
daughter, OF Gardner, are visiting
relatives on Harrison street.
Mrs. Jason Wilson has moved to
Portageville, Mo-, to JOIN her hus,
band, where they will reside.
Presbyterian Church, regular ser
vices next Sabbath morning at II
o'clock, and at night 7 o'clock.
Miss May Ramsey, of Yorkville,
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. T.
J. Shoffner in the city this week.
Mr.. Hugh E. Curtin, of Wood
land, has been engaged as sales
man for the Coble & Clagett Co.
Mr.. w. H. Gardner has gone tc
Join his son Russell OH the yacht
Annie Russell on an excursion tc
Mardi Gras.
Mr.. A. c. Trogden has charge Of
Mr.. Folks drug store during the
absence of Mr.. and Mrs. Polk in
Middle Tennessee.
We are authorized to announce
that the ladies of the Baptist Church
will give basket reception at the
parsonage at an early date.
Hal Hayden, who has been en-
ployed with the N, G. & st. Ry.,
has gone to Nashville, having been
employed by the First National
Bank.
A business meeting will be held
after the morning service at the
Baptist Church. All members are
requested to be present. Subject
for service Sunday morning, "A
Revival at night, "Thy Kingdom
Come"
Rev. w. S. Kendrick announces a
protracted meeting to begin at the
Baptist Church next Sunday night.
Rev. w. H. Sledge, of Helena,
Ark, has consented to assist in the
conduct of services. Everybody
cordially invited.
The death of Mr.. w. E. Thomp-
son, a former resident of Union
City, occurred at st. Francis, Ark,
from. la grippe. Mr.. Thompson
was an uncle of Mr.. II. A. Compton,
73 years of age, Presbyterian,
and was present here at family
reunion few years ago.
The Home Mission Society OF the
Methodist Church elected officers
as follows: Mrs. Geo. S. Hardy,
president; Mrs. w. w. Hall and
Mrs. Henry Mayors, vice-presi-
dents; Mrs. Elan, treasurer; Mrs.
Smoot, secretary and Mrs. Walker
corresponding secretary.
We are authorized to announce
that Mr.. r. L. Pruett, returned
missionary from Japan, will speak
at the First Christian Church on
Thursday evening, the 10Th inst.
A man OF fuency, his address will
abound in interest and profit. His
theme will embrace the work to.
which he was assigned and his trav-
els in Japan. No collection will be
taken, and everybody cordially in
vited to be present.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

Fish Bros. for mems furnishings.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

Try Sunshine -four.
Fresh oysters at Dahnke's Cafe.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

hot Beef Tea a Dahnke's.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

gEg:g:GGggGGg
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20
Child study.

In caring for children, a mother should
study the child or children as individ-
uals. We know that all children cam
not be governed by the same set of rules;
in fact, don't make any rules; govern
according to the requirements. Some
children will restify their wrongdoings
by being talked to and the wrong being
clearly stated to them, while others will
not give in without the application Of
the lash.
Don't be persistent whipper, don't
scold, but always use about the same
tone in addressing child, and never
make more noise than the children are
making when you want their attention.
Never allow yourself to be forever using
that hateful word don't" Express
your meaning in some other way
Housekeeper.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20
ODDGROUND FOR LAWSUIT.
Irishman Had . Case Which He
Couldn't Get q Lawyer to
Take Into Court.

Samuel Davis, court stenographer of
the Second circuit, relates the Kansas
CITY Journal, says that an 1rishman
who several years ago tried to en-
gage the legal services of his father
had the oldest ground for lawsuit
ha has ever heard of. The Irishman
wanted to sue his landlady for SIS.
He explained that he made contract
to nav her three dollars week for
hoard. but she was to deduct 25 cents
for every meal he missed. Having got
the contract duly signed, Pat began to
board elsewhere and charged the lady
with whom he had contracted 25 cents
Tor every meal he missed. He figured
out that by managing this way he
missed $5.25 worth of meals each week.
for which his contract required him
to pay only three dollars, SO that by
staying away he made $2.25 clear. The
ladlady refused to pay him his prof
it's" and he wanted Mr.. Davis to bring
suit against her for him. Father
laughed at him Bit" Mr.. Davis says,
"and he got indignant. "A contract is
a contract said Pat, and she ought
to be made to live up to her'n just as
well as me TO mine There were sew
eral other lawyers iE town, and some
of them were pretty hard up for cases,
but l don't know of anybody that took
that one after father turned it down. =
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20
Echoes of the Coal Strike.


An interesting aftermath of the coal
famine last winter has recently come
to light in the civil courts Much OF
the business of these courts consists OF
what are known as landlord and ten
ant cases. In most of the disputes aris-
ing from broken leases the tenants
have sought to justify themselves for
moving out by claiming that there was
lack of steam heat during the cold
weather. The landlords invariably
combated this testimony by claiming
that there was no coal to be obtained
at the time. Some of the landlords Of
the high grade apartment houses.
where the leases represent good deal
of money, made the mistake of calling
their engineers to corrotorate them
The engineers when cornered testified
that they used only sufficient coal to
keep the cold storage plants in the
houses from freezing. These plants are
very costly, and had they frozen up
and the pipes burst the damage would
have been about $25 200. 1t was due
to this fact alone that many Of the
best apartment houses in the city were
left without any heat at all-N. T..
Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20
KEEPING WELL DRESSED.
More In Knowing What Is Eecomin 8
and How to Put 1t on Than
in Cost.

Good dressing is not so much Ques-
ton of money as many women would
suppose 1t is often the case that the
best-dressed women and girls are those
with the smallest dress allowance, says
American Queen.
The truth of the matter Is that good
dressing is more matter of talent
than of fat pocketbook. Many girls
look stylish and fetching in a lawn
shirt waist, where many others look
"dowds" in silk and furs. To dress
well means to know what is becoming
and how to put it on, These two es-
sentials are the whole truth and
nothing but the truth" in point of per-
sonal appearance. Be the girl tall,
short, fat. thin, young. passe or any
thing else, save deformed, she may
transform herself by proper dressing
1t is not so difficult for the distinc-
tive types to enhance themselves If
they have sufficient taste to know
what color goes with their individual
type, but the "mezzo-type"-the girl
who Is between color, as you might
say, who is slightly sallow, with gray
ish-brown hair and light eyes-or the
woman who is on the verge of that
much-dreaded abyss, the passe. has
somewhat more of problem before
her. She should know that intense,
glaring colors would not enhance her
rather neutral beauty, but that a shade
that is in keeping with her general
makeup" would be more suitable. She
should study the effect of certain
shades. For instance, the pale girl
can wear red above the face when she
could not, perhaps, wear red dress.
She could wear one shade Of yellow
when she could not another. II her
eyes are deep blue she can wear gobe-
lin and bluette blue-never military,
grayish blue. The gray would increase
the paleness and would not improve
the eyes. If she is sallow she should
not wear light browns. and unless her
eyes and hair are very distinctive in
color she should avoid black Nor
should she affect fantastic trimming,
for it would only accentuate her "neu-
trality."
1t is surprising how the proper
choice of style and color will improve
the appearance, be the costume a
serge, skirt, linen waist and three
dollar hat, or an imported gown and
q creation of the milliner's.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20
BENTON LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20,
Mrs. M.-Why, Edith, what on

Mrs. M.-Why, Edith, what on
earth!
Mrs. H. Carbohydrates been
cross to me again, that's ALL I sup
pose I ought to get used to it, but I
can't.
Mr.. H.-Nothing of the kind, Mrs.
Medlar. I told her something in fun,
and now she insists on believing it
after I've explained that it was only
a joke.
Mrs. NJ. quitting her arm around
the Highly-Strung Woman)-What
was it all about, dear?
Mr.. Fl. Grritably)-I don't see the
necessity for rehearsing our little
family squabbles before every caller.
I'm going to dress for the theater.
Will you be ready in half an hour,
Edith?
Mrs. HI don't believe I'll go now,
after you're being SO mean to me. I'll
stay at home-and cry my eyes out
probably.
Mr.. H.-Don't talk such nonsense.
I'll stop in for you when I'm ready.
He walks out.
Mrs. M.-Now tell me all about it,
dear.
Mrs. H. (picking up the pass which
Mr.. II. left behind and handing it to
the Sympathetic Friend) d)-There,
that's what caused the whole trouble.
You look it over while 1 fix my hair
and battle my eyes. But Pm not
going out with him unless he ex-
plains everything, and is nice about
Mrs. NJ. (reading aloud)-On ac-
count of Kit. Who is this Kitty?
j Mrs. H. (triumphantly)-That's
just what I wanted to know. First
he told me it was one of Held's cho-
rus girls, then, when he saw how ]
took it, he tried to turn it off as a
joke.
Mrs. MI don't believe it was a
joke, Edith. You know he did use
! to carry on dreadfully before you
| married him.
Mrs. H. s(beginning to weep again)
He said he never knew any chorus
girls.
Mrs. M.-The old hypocrite! That's
| what his father took him out of Har-
| ward for. He used to chum with
| Aldy Armand, whose uncle ran the
| fremont, and both the boys were
behind the scenes three or four times
a week. Mrs. Armand told Mrs.
Barnes
/! Mrs. H. (hurriedly)-Don't, Emily,
| I can't bear it. To think we've been
married only year and half, and
Jack said to-day that he'd rather
have me go home to mother than to
have her come here.
! Mrs. NJ. (sympathetically)-The
brute!
| Mrs. H.-N-no, Jack isn't exactly
| bru-bru-brute, but he doesn't un-
derstand wom-wom-women
! Mrs. MI wouldn't let my hus-
band say anything like that to me.
| Why, its outrageous. I wonder what
| She looks like. She's probably a
| drugstore blonde.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20

Mrs. H. (hysterically)-1 know
what she'd look like if had her here
now. I'm not going out with him to-
night, anyway. Will you stay and
comfort ME this evening, Emily?
Mrs. M.-Of course I will, you poor,
abused dear.
(The Highly-strung Woman rests
her head on the Sympathetic Friends
shoulder and weeps copiously. The
| Average Man knocks lightly on the
door and enters, attired in q dress
suit.)
Mr.. H. latter an awkward pause)-
Well, Edith, haven't you come to
your senses yet?
Mrs. H.--N-no, and I'm not COM
Ing to- mean I'm not going to see
any of your old college friends.
Mr.. H. (aside, in great disgust)-
What foolishness! (Aloud)-Come,
dear, don't make such spectacle Of
yourself. Your nose is getting all
red and blotched.
Mrs. NJ. (under her breath) What
| a monster!
Mr.. H. Clearing the remark Mrs.
Medlar, I think perhaps I had better
make an explanation, since you have
succeeded in bringing this little mis-
understanding to such a climax. It
all began by the wording of that
pass, which I see you have appro-
priated. Merely in fun said that
it was given me by chorus girl I
used to know. Now, common sense
ought to teach any woman that if
such had been the case l wouldn't
have told my wife. The Kit on that
card is the abbreviation for Frank
Kitson, press representative for the
Hollis. You know him, Mrs. Medlar,
and you also know that he. and 1 have
been friends for years. Now, don't
want to be inhospitable, but I think
Edith and I can settle this better
if we are alone for a few minutes.
Mrs. NJ. (highly indignant)-Mr.
Hornung, you will never have the OPP
portunity to insult me in this fat
again. 1 will tell my husband what
you have said this very night. Good
by, Edith, dear.
(The Sympathetic Friend stalks out
of the room. The Highly-Strung
Woman throws her arms around the
Average Man in moist but affection
! ate embrace.)
Mrs. H.-You were right, dear, it
was all her fault. She stirred me up
as she always does, and she is a med
ding old thing. But you ought to
have told me in the first place that
Kit wasn't Kitty. Oh, Heavens!
Catching sight of her face in a
glass; my nose is sight. But wait
minute until I fix it. (She runs to
the chiffonier and manipulates lit
tie puffy white thing for few min
utes, then puts on her hat and comes
! back to him). I'm all right now,
Jackets; kiss me and tell me where
we're going for dinner. I'm half
starved. Crying always makes me
hungry.
1 Curtain
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20
sheep Not Easily Photographed.

If your friend. the amateur photog-
rapher, sends you a sheep picture OF
his own taking and it answers to your
idea of such picture you may know
that it represents some Of the hardest
work ever undertaken in his photo
graphic career. It's an instinct with
sheep to be scared at everything and
at nothing as well, and the photog-
rapher must get them accustomed to
him and his camera before he can daro
to turn it on them. 1t sometimes takes
hours of patient work to do this, and
even as the hand is about to release
the shutter away will stalk the whole
flock as If familiarity with the camera
person had bred disgust. Then it all
has to be done over again Boston
Transcript.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20
Curtain.


"A strange thing is the effect Of
electrical energy on birds and wild
beasts" says telegraph lineman.
"Woodpeckers are continually tapping
telegraph poles. In the country you
will find everywhere poles honey
combed by the sturdy bills of wood
peckers. The birds mistake the hum.
ming sound inside the poles for th9
humming of insects, and ii is to get at
these supposed insects that they make
their perforaions. Bears, on the other
hand, think the humming comes from
bees. and they overturr the stones at
the poles base in their endeavor to
get at the honey, Wolves are afraid
of the sound. A wolf won't go near a
telegraph pole under any cireum-
stances. s."-Philadelphia Record.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20
STEALING SERVANT GIRLS.
Reprehensible Manner Some House.
keepers Have of Obtain
ing Help.

A new phase of the everlasting serv-
ant girl question has recently come to
light-the hiring of servants by women
actually going to other persons houses
and offering girls higher wages. This
prevails to an alarming extent in near
ly all the large cities. A woman who
will DO this-well, she will do other
things of which strong language could
be used, and yet these women care to
be found among the best people-that
is, it should be added, that they live
on the best streets in town, but a
woman who will hire away her friends
servants cannot be strictly said to be
entitled to any position. This happens
every day and can be accounted for to
a certain extent by the scarcity of
servants and the desperation of house,
keepers, who will resort to almost any
means to obtain them.
Not SO long ago something OF this
kind happened to a Chicago woman,
says the Chronicle, and in recounting
the affair to a friend she said she felt
a pardonable degree of pride for tho
manner in which she handled the mat
ter. This woman lives in a fiat and
had just hired general housework
servant. About two days afterward
the bell rang and when Annie-as we
will call her-went to the door she
noticed that the girl went out and
closed the door and stood talking to
someone in the hall. So the mistress
OF the house suspected something and
went to the door and opened it. There
stood a woman whom she knew by
sight, but had never met. and she was
evidently endeavoring to hire Annie,
for the girl was very red in the face
and the woman very white when the
door opened The following conversa-
ton ensued:
Mistress of the housewife did you
come to see?
Visitor-I came to see Annie; she is
friend Of mine.
Mistress of the house-Annie, is this
woman friend of yours?
Annie (feebly)-Yes'm she is.
Mistress of the house-Well. Annie,
invite your friend into the kitchen to
sit down.
Dead silence! And presently the
woman departed and when the mis-
tress of the house interviewed Annie
she found she had never seen the
woman before in her life, but did not
like to betray the fact when she called
her friend. This was such remark
able state of affairs to the housekeeper
in question that she was quite para
lyzed and still more so when she found
OUT further that the woman offered
Annie IS more month to come to her.
Once In awhile this woman goes to a
tea and meets the other woman who
tried to get Annie away from her and
they glare at each other and pass on
but the woman who was guilty forgets
her part of it and only remembers that
she was invited to sit down in the
other womah's kitchen.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20
A MOTHERHOOD UNIVERSAL
Oh, the spider. mother spider.
Has her cradle in the grass,

Oh, the spider. mother spider.
Has her cradle in the grass,
Made of silken web and silver
Sunbeams plated as they pass;
And the summer breeze is rocking
Baby spider in the net.
Tween a drowsy poppy blossom
And a purple violet.
Oh, the oriole Is singing
BY her cradle in the tree,
Woven dandelion satin
And leafy filigree:
And the gentle wind is rocking
Baby orioles that dream
In the nursery of summer.
To the music Of stream.
Spin your cradle, mother spider!
Rock your baby, mother bird!
In another downy cradle
Little feet and hands have stirred!
And l, who wish the singing mothers
OF the trees and grasses JOY,
Must away to my own darling
Hungry little baby boy
Alloy sius Coll, in Good Housekeeping.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20
TIE SYMPTOMS EVIL CHARMS.
Strange Beliefs of Swiss Peasants Re-
sardinE the Great Tunnel Well
Founded.

Three strange and mighty natural phe-
nomena of uncommon kinds have acted
almost like three evil charms to hinder
the completion of the great Simplon
tunnel in Europe The peasants there
have declared that the mountain gnomes
and manikins are trying to fight the men
who are boring great hole through
their sacred mountain.
The first strange occurrence was "
years ago, when the blow of pick
broke into a tremendous subterranean
sea that began Immediately to pour
out of the solid rock with roar like
that of Niagara.
1t swept away everything before it
and hundreds of workmen were saved
only by swimming with the rushing
food. At first the engineers expect
ed that the water would run of within
few days, but days. weeks and months
passed and the water was still rushing
in undiminished volume, so that all the
work was stopped.
At last bed was blown into solid
rock and the waters were turned into
1t. They are rushing through it, max
ing 1t respectable river
Scarcely had this danger been avoid
ed before the tunnel began to slide and
bend strangely. This was found to be
due to rock that was so soft that it could
not bear the pressure of the mighty
mountain on top Of it. Immense sums
OF money had to be spent to counteract
this, and every new cutting has had to
be surrounded with cement and con-
crete.
Before the engineers had more than
finished their work over this phenome-
non the Swiss end Of the tunnel began
to grow hot. Day by day the heat in
creased, until it was SO great that 1t
blistered the skin of the workmen, driv-
ing them out Of the cuttings. The costly
ventilating appliance proved useless
against this growing heat, that finally
became too deadly to permit human be-
ing to enter
Investigations proved that the heat
was due to big accumulations of hot
water that seeped through the rock
there in thousand veins.
Again the engineers had to call for
immense sums OF money to install new
devices to fight the new enemy They
have succeeded. Although it is still so
hot in the tunnel that the visitor per-
spires as soon as he enters, the work
is proceeding rapidly. And the hot wa
ter has been chained. 1t has been set
to drive drills and other machinery.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-08-20
Apple ON Custard.

Pare and core large apple. fill the
cavity with sugar. Put little water
in the bottom of a dish and bake.
Make custard with cupful of milk, a
heaping teaspoonful of sugar, small
teaspoonful of cornstarch, yolk of one
egg. Flavor to taste after boiling thick
and pour around the baked apple. Use
the white for meringue; eat cold
Good Housekeeping.