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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1910
Page
6
Rome dispatch reports Dr. Sambon of the Field committee argues pellagra is not due to maize. The parasite carrier is identified as the simulium repans gnat, per telegraph from London dated May 14. The item also recalls a Cornish lighthouse keeper and a coast guard inquiry about his midnight light.
Mrs. H. R. Peebles of Akron Ohio reports severe back pains headaches and dizzy spells from kidney distress. She credits Doan's Kidney Pills with quick relief and cure after Bright's disease suspected by her doctor and recommends the product sold 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and all dealers.
A collage of old ad snippets promotes free framing pictures from Hewitt Bros and a journalism job joke from Louisville Courier Journal. The passage also touts eye restoration drugs and a Dayton Ohio mail-in offer, reflecting varied mid century ad copy and medical claims.
A Chicago Tribune quote presents a witty view of the relation between Plato and Socrates with Socrates as the end man and Plato as the interlocutor. An 1890s Perry Davis Painkiller advertisement follows, touting relief for aches burns and strains.
A conversation cited by the Atlanta Constitution features a young author lamenting his hero's death in a novel and an editor insisting the death should occur later to preserve suspense. An offhand ad notes blue Eng enamel paint whitening for 10¢ at local merchants.
A Baltimore schoolteacher tests a boy with a tale of George Washington. The boy replies that Washington was a soldier because he crossed the Delaware, implying a sailor would not stand in a boat.
The article cites Washington Post figures and notes from Dr. Henshaw and C. L. Marlatt on annual insect damages to U S farmers. It estimates pests cost about 1 076 billion including storage losses and forest damage with corn and cotton severely hit by worms and the Hessian fly.
Gertrude Atherton analyzes how older women grow harder to please in love and how mixed colleges speed disenchantment. She notes maternal instincts in some, freedom for others, and the lure of careers over marriage. Miss Spence embraced politics after traveling to the 1898 Chicago World’s Fair.
Miss Catherine Helen Spence, the so called grand old woman of Australia, died at 85 after a life of public service. She helped establish the system for dependent and delinquent children with Miss Emily Clark and served on the state children’s council and the destitute board of South Australia. A Scot who moved to South Australia as a youth, she mothered three families of children and remained deeply involved in reform efforts until death.
A 1898 patent describes a life sized cow shaped milk refrigerator and delivery device. Milk is stored in two receptacles with covers and valves, allowing two qualities such as sweet milk and buttermilk. The imitation cow carries ice in unused body space and is mounted on a wagon platform for street delivery.
The excerpt from Canfield's Legends of the Iroquois retells a Seneca origin legend about a brave wooing a maiden, guarding her while she sleepwalks, and a chase through a forest with a fleet-footed hare as they face danger.
A lover, closing on a maiden, finds his embrace binds him to a strange plant instead. The maiden awakens, terrified by her surroundings, and is transformed. Her arms become corn ears and her hair yields silky maize threads in a mythic change.
The Medical Record notes fat supports energy and tissue protection, aiding heat production and disease resilience. It cites fat as a reserve, influencing mood and vigor, with opinions suggesting fatty presence fosters contentment while fat absence may bring discontent and pessimism.
A farmer and his wife reminisce on twenty five years of marriage and debate how to celebrate with a banquet for the silver wedding. The wife suggests a feast with the fattest pig, while the husband laments the blame on the animal. The scene shifts to Alderman Smith’s baby’s christening and potential political promises as he grows.
A vintage medical ad proclaims Dr Martel's Female Pills as the long standing standard for women's ailments. It markets the product as scientifically prepared with quick and permanent results and notes availability at all drug stores.
An oddity of idioms traces common phrases to biblical language. The piece explains escape by the skin of one’s teeth from Job’s line, and how phrases like cast in the teeth and tooth and nail arose from vivid imagery of biting threats and snarling dogs.
The article warns that children's rashes come from unwholesome yellow soaps used on clothing which leave dirt and irritate the skin. It promotes Easy Task soap as clean and sanitary for children's clothes and general use, urging readers to buy at their grocer.
The exchange reveals Scribletts quip about poetry surfacing late, with a friend noting samples already come to light in the kitchen. The gifted bard grimly admits the verses were hot stuff.
Teething syrup promotes gum softness and reduces inflammation claiming to ease pain and wind colic. Offered at 25 cents per bottle.
A father questions his son Tom about his term study and, using a logic puzzle, exposes a flaw in his reasoning. Tom claims the father cannot be with him if not in Rome, but the exchange ends with the cane connected to the claim, leaving the boy unsettled by the apparent paradox.
A humorous exchange from the Chicago News contrasts social rules. A globe trotter says Norwegian girls may not have suitors until they bake bread and knit stockings. A bachelor counters that here, a law should bar girls with beaux unless they can walk city streets without a dog on a string.
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