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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1908
Page
2
A cyclone named Hoosierisms kills John Scott of Spencer from hurricane injuries after his home toppled. The report lists multiple local misfortunes including drafts, suicides, felony confessions, and a murder discovery in Oolitic.
Police respond to ongoing thefts at the state house in Indianapolis as chief engineer Samuel C. Shutt reports damage on the third floor. In one noon hour, items valued at 15 to 20 dollars disappear, including door hinges faucets from hydrants and nickel plated copper railing from third floor toilet rooms.
Landlord Miller of the Johnston Hotel in Logansport installed an electric sign reading Johnson Hotel claiming the name change reflects 13 letters in the first name. Travelers reportedly refused to stay after noticing the alteration and confusion over the spelling.
Calumet township temperance interests filed a remonstrance with the county commissioners targeting liquor traffic. The measure, backed by fifty seven voters, aims to shut about 130 saloons in Gary Tolleston and nearby areas. Gary known as the Still City.
Two year old Inez Smith died in a house fire two miles north of Unionville. She refused to leave while her brothers and sisters played, staying inside as the flames consumed the family home of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Smith.
The Cayuga private bank Malone & Son shut by State Bank Examiner Camp after an investigation reports a shortage of 25000 dollars. The examiner concluded the bank is not operating.
President Winthrop Ellsworth Stone of Purdue reports his wife has withdrawn from the world to pursue a mystic teaching imported from India. He and their two sons are heartbroken and cannot reach her. The board retained Stone as president despite his resignation.
Lydia in love with Capel confronts illness and betrayal as Katrine exposes a thief of fortune. Capel murmurs love while a hidden jewel hoard, jealousy, and scheming companion Artis drive tension in a haunted estate. The doctor nears verdicts as loyalties unravel.
Lydia undermines Katrine as Capel nears recovery and a servant reveals a planned burglary tied to an earlier theft. Mr. Girtle deflects, while a dying informant exposes a large sum and suspects, prompting police to push for a full house search and treasure tracing.
Mr Girtle confronts Dr Heston after a card signals a visitor seeking the doctor. Katrine and Artis sense police involvement and rising tension as Capel's delirium and secrecy deepen and the doctor debates leaving to tend his patient.
Announcement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for women's ills. A Missouri reader, Mrs Bertha Muff, recounts long illness and multiple physicians before recovery after following Pinkham's guidance, praising the remedy and advice for aiding other women.
A Detroit Tribune cartoon caption riffs on safety and sentiment with a moralizer and a demoralizer arguing over drinking vessels. The jokey exchange notes a tin bucket as safer, reflecting satirical humor of the era.
An 1886 testimonial accompanies Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co in Toledo Ohio. Frank J. Cheney swears as senior partner promising one hundred dollars per case of catarrh cured or not. Ads claim cure works through the blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials and mail solicitations.
Old books show brown spots caused by bacteria that feed on starch. the microbes spread in damp. This explains deterioration and guides preservation and handling practices for antique volumes.
The fragment blends quips about Carter and a broker with satirical jokes on medicine and nature. It weaves lines about Winslow’s Syrup, nocturnal fish, cubits, bittering life, fault finding, and religion as a daily creed. The piece reads like a miscellany column of late 19th century style humor.
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