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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
3
Miss Barrows shares how Mrs Pinkham s advice aids working girls facing female disorders from long hours on their feet. She cites Lydia E Pinkham s Vegetable Compound and her mother in law s twenty five years of free illness guidance, urging correspondence to Mrs Pinkham Lynn Mass.
The Winnipeg Free Press features a strong appeal to U S and British readers about Western Canada as a settlement field. It highlights a booming immigration push, abundant agricultural openings, and the promise of social and civil elevation for industrious youths seeking greater than mere farming.
A cryptic line hints at the man who supposedly made San Francisco famous, mentioning names like Ruffon Wentz-Schmite and Saymold Storey-Don’t Pirivkollect, reflecting Chicago Tribune style in a fragmentary note.
Fragmentary item notes a convention in June with low rates via Nickie Plate Road and a June Labh with extension privilege. It mentions C. A. Melin TOP A Fort Wayne Ind and an exchange about damages with Jenkins and Laws as reported by the Philadelphia Ledger.
The advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on the blood and mucous surfaces and offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and lists Toledo Ohio as the address.
Samuel Smiles noted as author of Self Help left an estate valued at 389 820 dollars. Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething priced at 25 cents a bottle. Knights of Columbus meeting announced with low rates via Nickte Plate Road for travel to New Haven and Niagara Falls.
La Porte investigation exposes Wesley L L Cook who secured a $5,000 loan from G W Morrow of Portland Oregon using a land title. The 640 acre tract sits mostly under Lake Michigan with 685 acres claimed as valuable. Cook fled after failing to clear the mortgage, leaving Morrow with a suspected worthless investment.
Kokomo observed strict blue laws with saloons, stores, and services closed all day making cigar or milk purchases impossible. A restaurant keeper refused service for a policeman, and no arrests occurred as most tradesmen complied. livery stables and utilities lingered open, prompting potential action.
Report states Black Marsh land near Winamse in Blue Seas district will be converted to peppermint fields. Investors acquire 2000 acres for 80000 dollars with 40 acres to start this year and full work of the tract planned next year. Projected profit 200 dollars per acre.
County assessors in northern Indiana push to uncover concealed property. They expect at least 1,000,000 dollars of previously unreported taxable property, with St. Joseph county alone contributing about half. The Indiana assessor in Michart County is described as especially determined in ferreting out hidden property.
The $250000 Reid Memorial Church dedicated in Richmond as a gift from Daniel G. Reid of New York City to the United Presbyterian congregation. The structure is one of the handsomest in the middle West and cost Reid a quarter of a million dollars. The pipe organ, the finest in the United States, memorializes Reid’s will and honors his parents.
David Mackey, aged Brinley’s Station resident near Richmond, died from a hatchet attack by his brother Isaac in a dispute over property. Isaac, in a fit of temporary insanity, then died by taking poison. The two will be buried in the same lot.
Leroy Scott aged 4 and Loyal Cornwall aged 380 months died in Port Wayne from strychnine pills found and eaten while at play. Convulsions followed and doctors labored all night without success.
Indianapolis fire damages the Arm strong Surgical Instrument Company building with a $50,000 loss. Other briefs report a receiver appointed for William HI. Everitt, seeks dissolution, and a divorce suit by Rev. James E B Haffner against Bertha Haffner over alleged professional insults and cruelty. A Winamac high school teacher Ralph Noel marries Minnie Hodgson after a late-night club departure. A 10-year-old boy helps extinguish a blaze on the Calumet river Monon bridge as his father, an Erie bridge tender, remains nearby.
A Kansas printer claims relief after taking Dr Williams Pink Pills. He says years of severe rheumatism, swelling, and crutch use vanished after a year of the pills. He cites others helped and notes the product purity and mail order options from Williams Medicine Co.
A scientist describes worldwide seismic impact from the recent Colombian quake. Within two hours initial impulses reached antipodes and shifted every inhabitant for hours. Teleseismic instruments, spirits levels, magnet needles, and pendulums all showed motion across the globe.
OL J Myergs of Newark New York describes a three year battle with a leg humor that left the limb raw as beef. After trying doctors remedies he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment bathing daily and applying six or seven boxes. Within three weeks he was fully cured and has used Cuticura ever since.
Samuel Gompers, re-elected AFL chief, extols union gains for workers while noting France’s sparse unions and lower wages. A French bricklayer’s anecdote contrasts job scarcity and pay with promises of life sustaining work and dignity.
The text notes surf birds in Hawaii migrate about 4000 miles yearly to Alaska to rear their young. It mentions turnstone, black-bellied plover, and Pacific golden plover making the long journey. Uncle Allen adds a quip about a man with no stock in a fire insurance company getting cold feet after a big fire.
A man who shaves himself argues against frequent honing saying a razor can stay sharp for ten years with stropping alone. He keeps six razors, rotating them for rest, and uses a hard stiff strap to maintain the edge without rounding it through improper flexing.
The old Lippincott property transfer and owner’s death push Phoebe birds to seek new treetop quarters at Broad and Walnut streets, marking a second ousting after leaving the Baldwin estate tree on Chestnut Street between Eleventh and Twelfth. The local scene echoes a long pattern of displaced avian homes.
Henry H. Rogers of Copper and Standard Oil fame hosted a friend recently. The visitor spoke of six months in Lakewood New Jersey and deep illness before adding he had never been in Montana. Rogers quipped about the state, lightening the mood.
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