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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1912
Page
10
A string of light anecdotes and quips appears, including Garfiald Tea as a laxative comparison, a wary view of politics, a discouraged man calculating gardening costs, a cafe gag about eggs and steak, a Milky Way glacier theory, and Rudolf Spitaler’s note on starlight affecting Earth’s heat distribution.
A physician recounts his own experience with caffeine drinks. He abandoned tea and coffee after daily heart palpitations and switched to Postum, noting that after boiling methods improved flavor his heart symptoms ceased except when coffee was reintroduced. He recommends Postum to friends and patients and cites The Road to Wellville.
In a landmark Colorado feat by the reclamation service W P Edwards rode a rubber raft through Gunnison canyon to prospect for diverting water. He survived whitewater dangers and helped justify a five mile tunnel through solid rock to redirect the river for desert irrigation and farming.
Mme Ricardo, a famed singing trainer known as the singing girl, was speechless when a bear attacked her husband at an Oakland circus. She screamed for help as the grizzly knocked him down. she lost her voice the following day and doctors fear it may not return. Ricardo escaped injury.
Yale University Museum has received a large stone chair carved as a crouching human figure from Helador, South America. The chair is described as unique, a relic found nowhere else in the world except Revador hills. Donor is Harlex Brown Ule, 1903.
Miss May Forbes of Forbes Manor keeps a parrot named Polly that clashes daily with next door's violin by Hugh Islington. The battle lasts a month as Polly screams for crackers and the violin plays Old Black Joe from dawn till night. They finally meet in a grove, reveal mutual interest, and exchange smiles and notes about each other.
Washington report notes Catawba tribe of about 100 in South Carolina seeks protection as wards of the nation, aiming to join other Indians on the general allotment and citizenship path. State Senator W H Stewart calls for federal recognition, citing long friendship with settlers and historical aid by the state.
Mrs Selby of Redondo Beach lauds Cuticura Soap for her baby noting flawless skin and a prize win at five months. The ad extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment with free samples offered, while interleaved with other vintage ad snippets and quotations.
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