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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1913
Page
5
Advertises Kickapoo Worm Killer as a cure for common worms in children. Claims symptoms like indigestion headaches fretfulness and colicky pains signal worm infestation. Describes the product as a pleasant candy logen age that expels worms tones the bowels and makes kids well. Guaranteed and sold by druggists or by mail.
In the Alcotts home a Bon box near the front door symbolized an honor system. Each good day a child dropped a slip with her name and the code word Ben followed by three crosses. The narrator recalls hoping to work for the box and inspecting his virtues daily.
A New Bedford woman Katherine L Norton testifies to kidney pain relief after using Foley Kidney Pills. The ad claims women suffer more kidney trouble and that the pills act as a quick tonic. Dare and Stable promote the product with her endorsement.
National agricultural data show Great Britain covers 56 799 994 acres with 9 000 000 acres not used for farming. The figure highlights extensive land available for future cultivation and development against overall farmland usage.
Classified brief lists a sale on a lot near Pere Marquette station in Chicago with cash or easy payments through Kusswurm and Krinsky. Also seeks a maid for housework at 9236 Pleasant Avenue Beverly Hills with good wages and a phone contact. Includes another want ad for a girl to do general house work, must cook, no washing, $7 per week at 10509 Seely Avenue Chicago with a contact number.
A poem recalls Bijah Greene known as Bi a modest alderman and congressman who refused lifelong office. He served briefly in Congress, then returned home with his furniture and wife, continuing to work without boastful claims to public favoritism.
Mrs. Blimleigh laments her husband fussing over plants and seeds while a neighbor suggests the flowers justify his outdoor activity. The exchange highlights the expense of hiring help for Mr. Blimleigh’s gardening enthusiasm and the debate over the benefit of his office worker’s exercise.
A brief humorous vignette where Mrs. Murgatroyd endures the heat with a light quarrel over proper attire. Her husband insists on sitting on the front porch without a collar, highlighting the comical strain of sweltering weather.
A reflective verse notes public service attracts slander and abuse. It contemplates honest motives versus spite, urging resilience for those who serve, as successors are deemed worse by critics. The poem uses irony to remark on repeated vilification of officeholders.
A joke notes a couple’s joke about baldness and temper. The wife recalls differences before his baldness and jokes that combing with a towel leaves no long hairs in his beard.
Garbled exchange pits a harsh comparison against tragedy as two speakers describe disturbing acts and reactions. A third voice questions attention to surrounding sights while a fourth laments a dying or deceased figure amid chaotic talk.
Harper's Weekly notes the Nile valley’s soil productivity stems from earthworms. British surveyors report six months of digging yield about 240 pounds of surface castings per acre, building a thicker, natural soil layer and aiding aeration, drainage, and nutrient recycling.
A report notes Chinese cooks are skilled but unfamiliar with American stoves. In Tientsin few ranges exist and cooking relies on small open kettles over basic fires. California dairies and ranch rookeries later adopt the kettle method, highlighting a preference for primitive cooking utensils.
A New York Woman wore a clinging black satin gown with bearskin trims and trotted beside a shorn black French poodle. The pair resembled each other in gait and style, suggesting the woman copied the dog's mannerisms rather than the dog mimicking the woman.
The article notes a long battle over the true Golgotha beyond Europe, with Crusades and pilgrims shaping history. It cites Garden’s Calvary and claims credited to Dr Harlan P Beach of Yale University, after General Gordon’s early acknowledgement.
Jerome A Hart outlines Sardou’s method of work. He kept memos of ideas, filed notes, and dossiers with engravings and maps. When a play began to form he chose a dossier, reviewed material, drafted a skeleton plot, then wrote the scenario and the final work.
French experiments tested odor thresholds for cloves oil, artificial musk, garlic, bromine, and almonds. Results show men detect scents more acutely than women on average, with wide individual variation. Specific averages: cloves 1 in 88,128 for men and 1 in 50,667 for women. musk 1 in 783,870 vs 311,330. garlic 1 in 57,927 vs 43,900. bromine 1 in 339,254 vs 16,244. bitter almonds 1 in 112,000 vs 18,000.
The text details extraordinary growth figures for seeds and fungi. It notes globe turnip seeds expanding to immense bulk in months and daily peat-ground growth, puffball sizes in a night, and Lindley’s cell multiplication estimates. It lists germination times from two days to a month for various seeds, while some may remain dormant for long periods.
Mr Thomas J Dawson of Lower Sloane Street reports bullfinches taught in Germany to sing tunes from Casanova The Soldiers Chorus Faust hymns now singing English tunes. Birds begin lessons after birth and can fetch up to ten pounds each in England.
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