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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1904
Page
3
A leading author notes Milton paid 25 dollars for Paradise Lost and observes the manuscript is now valued at about 25000 dollars. The observer asks how many modern manuscripts now valued at 25000 dollars will be worth 25 dollars a century from today.
The notice urges trying Defiance Starch with a dealer return option. If satisfied, buyers receive one third more for the same money and claim it will avoid sticking to utensils. The language emphasizes customer satisfaction and value.
The text notes 6000 tons of Congo rubber sold annually in Antwerp. It states natives gather the rubber and earn 50 cents a week after covering their own costs. It also mentions a normal heart beating about seventy times a minute ejecting two ounces of blood per contraction.
The Santa Fe announces daily summer operation of the Missouri River Flyer from Kansas City Union Depot to Colorado Springs with a library smoking car a twelve section Pullman sleeper and an observation sleeper. Depart Denver 12 15 pm arrive Kansas City 9 05 am Oklahoma City 12 55 pm next day and Galveston 9 55 am following day via Newton. Reward offered by Wiesbaden for long service scarves.
The article describes a monster chestnut tree at the foot of Mount Etna as possibly the largest in the eastern hemisphere or the world. Its main trunk circumference at 60 feet high is reported as 212 feet, marking an extraordinary diameter and size.
Report claims Standard Oil controls the entire output of Ontario asbestos mines supplying much of the world. The text also includes a quip about avoiding nauseous quinine and an ad for Cheatham's Laxative Tablets and a jab about gray hats in a boarding house butter.
An old advertisement promotes Defiance Starch claiming 16 ounces for 10 cents with “one-third more starch for the same money.” It toots revenge, paint jokes, and a Houston prices inquiry, while a stark medical claim for Piso’s Cure is quoted from Trinity Springs, Ind.
A compact proverb-like reflection notes that life offers many trials but not enough convictions. It frames persistence and resolve as essential themes.
An English watchmaker creates a miniature wristwatch housed in a shirt stud. The dial measures two sixteenths of an inch in diameter and it is intended to be worn with two other studs. Winding is done by turning the upper stud and setting the hands by the lower stud.
Two Sicilian scientists Grassi and Rovelli report that house flies act as intermediate hosts for a tapeworm species harming chickens. Chickens ingest flies carrying tapeworm larvae, enabling parasite transmission.
Ontario peat bogs are unmatched in extent and could supply a major fuel source. The article notes significant bogs in the southern province, while also recounting an English husband’s cruelty allegations as he seeks separation and complains of his wife’s breakfast glove habit.
It Pays to Read Newspapers. Frank M. Rus sell of this place had kidney disease so bad he could not walk. He read a newspaper about Dodd's Kidney Pills curing kidney trouble Bright's Disease and rheumatism. He took two boxes and is now well, able to work all day without fatigue. The claim says Mr Russell's case in Chippewa County is extraordinary with Dodd's Kidney Pills producing miraculous cures in Wisconsin.
A method describes dissolving ink stains with a mix of rain water and oxalic acid, adding butter antimony and flour to form a paste. Apply with a brush, let stand several days, then wash away.
A vintage advertisement page promotes mailing for a World's Fair certificate and map along with inexpensive lodging in St. Louis. It lists notable backers and claims large housing capacity. The item also reports wheat potential in Canadian territories with higher yields and faster maturation in Athabasca and Mackenzie regions.
A British lawyer and MP Ellis Griffith once addressed a county court judge by train to avoid adjournment. The article recalls Pitt's income tax from 1799, revived by Peel and extended by Gladstone, plus quirky notes on a Gibraltar case, a Quean's University offer to mortgage a body, the strange garfish, and how the Los Islands got their name from an engraver’s error.
Housekeepers are urged to buy Defiance Cold Water Starch claiming a full 16 oz package for 10 cents, twice the size of rival half pound packs. Advertisers tout no sticking to irons, absence of harmful chemicals, and quick ready results with no cooking required.
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