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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
9
Royal tipping habits are described with Edward and the Kaiser cited for lavish allowances. King Edward reportedly left thousands yearly, distributing cash to servants during visits, with specific sums for beaters and keepers. The Kaiser is noted as generous, ensuring every servant is remembered before a visit ends.
A humorous exchange features Baron Muchgold praising a family tree while the judge notes the crop appears to fail, delivering a wry remark on lineage. The brief dialogue contrasts pride in ancestry with a blunt assessment.
A sharp exchange ends with a grim quip about a friend who sought softness. The remark places the punchline on a mental health setting, hinting at institutional care.
A wife narrates how coffee harmed her health and how she switched to Postum with her husband eventually joining. The family reports improved complexion and well being, and they declare they are no longer coffee slaves. Postum Co. promotes Regular and Instant Postum as coffee alternatives with brewing instructions.
A three story storage building in Hood River, Oregon, uses lava bed stone and cold spring water to preserve fruit. The lower floor, with a 10 000 box capacity, rests on eighteen foot deep loose stone. Water from lava springs chilled near freezing will run through gaps and pipes in the structure while apples are packed and sorted on the upper two floors.
National Audubon Society annual report shows two million birds found safe refuge on reservations and guarded colonies. Sixteen agents protected 10 000 airgrettes in southern brooding grounds. The organization reports fifty two thousand junior members and gifts totaling eighty thousand dollars from American bird lovers.
Gladstone reports wheat yield at 30 bushels per acre with high-grade grain. Portage Plains lists numerous farmers attaining 40 to 61 bushels per acre, including Noah Elgert and J Wishart. Marquette and Dauphin note strong progress, averaging 20 to 34 bushels, no damage, favorable weather.
A New York Evening Post note quotes a mathematics professor claiming that killing a fly in his office ten years ago prevented a vast ecological explosion. He posits 1,500 eggs leading to 650,657,841,296 more flies, arguing the act spared the world from an inferno of insects.
Mr. R. M. Fleenor of Otterbein Indiana says kidney trouble for 25 years left him unable to work. After using two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills he reports being sound and well and recommends the product. Advertisement offers Dodd's Kidney Pills 50c per box from Dodd's Medicine Co Buffalo NY and free Household Hints music and recipes.
A fragmented column mixes a newspaper quip about a man’s engagement with a car affair and a comic advisory section urging readers to seek Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills and to beware nostrums. It also touts Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops and Roman Eye Balm while offering domestic musings on marriage and happiness.
Maxwell Motor Company expands parts network to Newcastle Indiana with a $1,750,000 plant stock investment and 45,000 bins to supply over 150 models from former United States Motor Company. Dealers or repairers can source parts within 24 to 48 hours. owners urged to overhaul and repaint now for resale or continued use.
Riverhead, N Y Mrs Arietta Baird seventy seven studied law four years to prosecute her own son for slander against her nephew Ernest W Tooker a local lawyer. She forgot the date failed to appear and the suit was dismissed.
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