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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1907
Page
7
An old advertisement column touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription as cures for mucous disease and general weakness. Claims include non alcohol content, plant extracts, and warnings against secret nostrums. Other items promote Allen’s Foot-Ease, Garfield Tea, Red Cross Blue, and a tale about bibliographic thefts in Paris libraries.
A testimonial claims Grape-Nuts cereal cured years of dyspepsia after a doctor recommended daily use. The writer says the product is predigested, gentle on the stomach, builds nervous energy, suits all ages, and is ready to eat. Read The Road to Wellville for more.
Lady Posey contemplates marriage, while Peggy Malcolm and Lord Montleitham navigate romance and social reform. A minister confronts working misery, highlighting Oakley and Lemercier dress bargains and a charity effort that reshapes a ballroom encounter into a personal pledge.
A humorous riff mocks weather prophets predicting blizzards while urging readers to prepare for spring. The verses reference freezing pipes Beersheba to Dan and advise keeping a linen duster and fan as fickle weather nears.
A Yonkers Statesman quote cites a statistician claiming the average woman has forty to sixty miles of hair on her head. The reply quips that a portion is her own and adds a sharp remark about a boy earning ten cents not trusting the best man alive.
The Burlington correspondent describes the Scholer home known as the Swiss chalet perched on a rugged bluff south of Burlington overlooking the Mississippi River. Built by Sr. Scholer, a Swiss immigrant, the dwelling imitates Swiss interiors and exteriors and remains a landmark from Crapo Park. Sr. Scholer recently died, leaving the home to his sons as a lasting feature of the area.
A Chicago lawyer recalls a Nevada town where the most popular man allegedly terrorized residents with a disreputable touch and plotted to “do him up.” The accused faced trial for assault with intent to kill, but after two minutes of deliberation the jury acquitted, the foreman noting the act was simply to quarrel. The court’s verdict was met with applause.
An interviewer asks if the man has a political bee in his hat. He responds that he has the campaign V in his pocket, noting that his friends’ hopes matter less than those of his party in the judge’s reflection.
The piece surveys extreme heat exposure across workplaces from Death Valley to ocean steamship stokers. It notes Roosevelt’s brief stoking of a warship and cites workers and a fearsome “Fire King” said to endure six hundred degrees in a firebox, highlighting human endurance in hot labor.
A vivid account of chamois hunting across European high mountains. Describes habitat in Germany Austria Switzerland Transylvania Carpathians and the Alps. Notes chamois behavior feeding patterns winter descent and that both sexes carry antlers and a single fawn each year.
A Tipton Indiana letter to a Canadian agent details emigration to Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1906. It describes vast wheat fields modern cities toll roads railways and new homes praising returns from two thousand acres bought in partnership and a renter yielding twenty seven bushels per acre.
An observer found a menu dated February 30, 1904 aboard the Siberia crossing from Yokohama to San Francisco. The date was correct due to the leap year crossing, creating a day gained between Japan and America at voyage’s end February.
The head master at Eton in England endorses ambidexterity teaching. Offenders are punished by writing lines with the left hand, a method generally approved though some boys would prefer birching. Writing with the left hand is believed to benefit the brain and future gratitude is suggested.
A Baltimore American note recalls a line about spring openings and umbrellas. The exchange hints at sales prospects for YT umbrella manufacture, with a quip about love blinding sight to danger signals.
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