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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
3
A 19th century style contraption uses brown paper and cotton batting to form a hatlike cover over a pitcher. The end is fastened and crowned to create a box shape that fits over the pitcher rim, sealing air and keeping ice water cold long after the ice melts.
The article describes French origins and American adoption of mechanical poultry feeding. A four gallon metal tank on three legs delivers soft corn meal and milk through a rubber tube fed by a treadle. Operators claim rapid feeding, better flavor, and that birds learn to accept the nozzle, with some workers feeding up to 400 chicks per hour.
A New York state sufferer recounts ten years of stomach and liver trouble improved by coffee abstinence and Grape Nuts with Postum. He claims twenty pounds gained, renewed energy, and ability to work full days, noting the meal of Grape Nuts with cream and Postum often suffices. The advertisement ends with “There’s a Reason” and an invitation to read more letters.
Amber confesses love for Hilary and rejects marriage to Captain Adare to clear her father’s name. Sir Lucien presses a deal: gem stones in exchange for her hand, while Deane warns of power and threat as tensions rise between Amber, Deane, and Lucien amid a looming dance invitation.
A would be assassin bribed to kill Sultan Abdul Hamid II stabbed the sultan in the breast at Constantinople but the blow was deflected by the mail he wore. Guards seized the attacker as palace commotion erupted and Abdul Hamid’s life was preserved amid a history of palace intrigue and past assassination attempts.
A scrambled list of dates and figures from European and American history appears, noting rulers, explorers, treaties, and notable deaths. Names include William the Conqueror, Christopher Columbus, Burgoyne, Amherst, and Melville, with events tied to 1056 through early 1900s, plus scattered notes on Canada and the Doukhobors.
Miss Lamson derides a Boston guest as blunt while recalling a visit about a century old high-boy and family china. The Prouty woman apologizes for her friend’s behavior, claiming youth and lack of sense about relative ages, leaving Lamson feeling older than before.
A party of horsemen along Bridge Creek in Wyoming hears a rattling sound that spooks their horses. A naturalist explains the noise came from an owl living near prairie dog burrows, sometimes with rattlesnakes, and the riders again startled when the owl rattles a second time.
Opera singer Miss Emelie Gardner was critically injured at her seaside cottage when a large bull terrier attacked in a dark pantry. The dog bit her left arm near the wrist and elbow and chewed off the first two fingers of her right hand.
The Hamburg balloon of the Hamburg Aeronautical Society failed on landing at Tubeck. Mexico says it captured the two leaders blamed for the recent revolt in the north. Nicaragua and Guatemala exchange public correspondence revealing tense relations between the two nations.
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