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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1906
Page
7
Mrs Egbert Sheldon of Woodville Connecticut writes of a two year old boy whose sores covered his face arms chest and body. After two doctors failed he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment for about two months and the sores disappeared. He is now strong and healthy.
J C Van Dyke discusses ocean floor sediment in The Pal Renal noting red clay from the Pacific and Indian depths that accumulates refuse and residue resistant to gas action. The material includes volcanic rock purice zeolitic crystals manganese oxides meteoric iron and whale teeth. The origin is thought cosmic from planetary dust and meteoric fragments. Sharks teeth remain unaccounted and oddly gathered in ocean basins.
A quirky wedding planning snippet imagines an ocean voyage aboard a houseboat across the Atlantic. The speaker envisions a playful, romantic trip with a sweetheart, amid humorous, misspelled chatter and informal banter.
Secretary Merkeiway cites child labor figures in the United States and Pennsylvania, while Chicago plans a union cemetery with a $50 adult and $35 child fee. Iron and metal industries face worker shortages. British labor MPs condemn the Lords. Boston braces for 25,000 on Labor Day amid its 20th anniversary parade. New York carpenters gain wage increases, Buffalo molds clash with manufacturers, and Structural Iron Workers train for danger. Greater Pittsburgh Labor Day aims for a grand demonstration with unique features and bundled bands. Girls increasingly enter skilled trades, while Minneapolis explores a potential November exposition.
A compact list of historic military clashes and political events. From Alphonso’s defeat of Moors in 1180 to the launch of the Battleship Maine in 1901 and related incidents through 1904, names include Edward II, Cromwell, Pitt, Robespierre, McClellan, Morgan, and McKinley. It notes coups, sieges,ify wars, territorial changes, and early American milestones with places like Constantinople Caen Paris and Pittsburg.
Central America peace conferees from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras aboard the U S cruiser Marblehead signed a treaty. It calls for withdrawal of armies within three days, disarmament in eight days, prisoner exchange, and administration by the U S and Mexico presidents. The agreement seeks mediating nations’ sanction and has Costa Rica and Nicaragua as participants. President Roosevelt cabled congratulations to the presidents of the involved republics.
A Southern town's afternoon paper mourns a former citizen Mr Smith Brown with editorial praise while a telegraphed notice hints he was hanged by lynchers for horse stealing. A second brief item reports HF Buxton killing a two and a half foot adder in his yard after it charmed or was charmed by his cat in Brooklyn.
A Olympia resident reports six years of severe back pain and sciatica ending after using six boxes of a remedy from Foster Milburn Co. The testimonial claims the urine cleared in a week and symptoms never returned, with the product priced at 50 cents a box. The note also mentions Miss Archer and a fortune report alongside odd blurbs about beer quality and Queen Alexandra.
The Jacksonville Times-Union muses on changing views of modesty from a century ago, noting shock at ankles and pantalfettes, jokes about ostrich farm pints to spare delicate sensibilities, and remarks that patronage remains steady despite attitudes.
The passage reports a nine month period of illness with ferails described as coinages of Gallen fics tying to relieve the speaker. Mentions Lydia E Pinkham’s V and admami within a balloon and notes relief was incomplete.
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