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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1908
Page
2
Damaged Knox county jail facility valued at $5,000 from fire or gas line blast. Mary Williams perished in a gasoline explosion at Winamac. Various Indiana items follow including deaths, marriages, indictments, and local incidents across towns such as South Bend Evansville Noblesville and Indianapolis with several crimes and civic notes.
In Lagrange County the Horticultural and Agricultural Society numbers over 209 members. The group promotes advanced farming methods and holds monthly meetings that have grown into major county events.
Henry Hilgemann and Brothers win the building contract for the Anthony Hotel in Fort Wayne. The eight story, fire proof structure is set for completion at a cost of 225377 dollars.
In Floyd county Indiana the Renos lynching cell 18 at New Albany jail was opened for the first time since December 12, 1868. Blood stains and superstition kept it shut until remodeling freed the old door. Separately, the Indiana Grain Dealers' Association urged federal grain inspection after Senator McCumber spoke in Indianapolis.
At Indianapolis the delegates to the Farmers Mutual Insurance Companies Union refused to commit to the anti cigarette and anti liquor crusade.
A famed eighteenth century feud between Captains Fournier and Dupont escalates from ballroom skirmishes to repeated sword fights and a nineteen year purgatory of duels, ending in 1813 when they agree a final single shot duel inside an inclosure to settle their grudge.
A Chicago Record Herald piece quotes a barber in a large shop claiming left-handed barbers invite misfortune, causing rivals to quit and entire weeks to fail. He recounts a New York shop incident and notes Monday morning first customers are avoided to prevent bad luck.
In a light moment Mr Softwood feigns embarrassment after overhearing a sneeze from beneath a sofa. Miss Rose confirms Tommy sprinkled snuff to provoke the sound, adding a mischievous domestic detail.
The article presents a biblical teaching unit on John 1 35 51 featuring the calling of Andrew, Peter, Philip and Nathanael. It outlines a preliminary review of Jesus baptism and temptation and offers expository and teaching sections with guiding questions and applications for bringing others to Jesus.
A brief guide promotes Borax as a safe universal cleaner and disinfectant. It describes using two tablespoons per gallon of hot water to flush sinks and drains to remove disease germs, softening water, whitening laundry, cleaning items, and sterilizing baby bottles. The piece touts Borax as harmless and affordable.
Mrs Frank Roseboom of Moscow Idaho says kidney trouble worsened nerves and caused dizziness and pain but after using Dean's Kidney Pills her symptoms improved. Sold by dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY Also a St Paul woman disabled a six foot bass drummer in a band beat.
An advertisement extols Sloan's Liniment as a powerful neuralgia and sciatica remedy that penetrates without rubbing and quickly eases pain while warming the body. A Marietta South Carolina user, J P Hubbard, credits it with curing head and jaw neuralgia after a three year struggle and recommends keeping a bottle handy. the note ends with a religious exhortation about effort.
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