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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
3
A reader from Falls, Pa. reports recovery from female trouble using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits it with enabling her to work fully again and recommends sick women write Mrs. Pinkham for advice.
A house painter walking down Main Street in a New Hampshire village is hailed by a townsman. The man jokes about starting work at Spinner's house, noting the elderly resident had threatened to paint himself with the paint already intended for the project.
The Taiyo in Tokio warns that the white peril threatens the East as the yellow danger does the West. It urges China and Japan to halt European and American control of Asian markets. An unrelated excerpt notes a dismissed servant due to family concerns.
The report describes new carpenters unions in Virgueg Porto Rico and London docks welding with British and international bodies. It notes the eight hour protest in Brisbane with female workers, a Woolworth era sick funds, and mass railway labor moves in New York. Stogie factories in Wheeling employ union workers and apprentices while photoengravers plan assessments for tuberculosis treatment. It also cites wage data from 1907 and 1908, and unions in Mexico City, Cambridge Hebrew painters seeking a charter.
The commission lauds improvements in hygienic conditions for workers on the canal project and urges continued housing, feeding, and medical provisions. It notes broad government recognition of worker welfare as vital to efficiency and forwards recommendations to Goethals for implementation.
An old field guide describes a lion's early anger signs and charging sequence. Tail twists and tassel beating air, head lowered, teeth shown, growls and roars, ears flatten, tail raised, then slow trot to gallop. Stand ground, keep cool, trust your weapon, and avoid challenging the animal.
In a light exchange, Mr. Fairbanks jokes about consuming a gallon of buttermilk daily, noting the newspapers would hardly notice. The remark appears in the Philadelphia Press as a humorous aside.
Rev G M Gray Baptist clergyman Whitesboro Texas testifies that Roan's Kidney Pills relieved four years of lumbago pain after a short course. He, though reluctant, shares his experience so others with kidney trouble may benefit. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
An actress recalls Frederick Townsend Martin’s disdain for fake blue blood and counterfeit luxury at a Plaza gathering. He sat beside her during a public dinner where a nouveau riche guest boasted of ancestral London birth, prompting Martin to murmur about fashionable slumming.
A Kansas City Journal paraphrase notes the victim, an actor, appeared to step into traffic deliberately. The piece frames it as a force of habit or a staged moment rather than a random accident.
Virginia mother reports renewed health after using Grape-Nuts. She credits the cereal with rebuilding strength so she could nurse her four month old baby and perform daily tasks. The letter promotes the food and mentions Battle Creek Michigan and the Road to Wellville reference.
A woman recounts her brother's three summers of eczema and his complete cure after using Cuticura Ointment. She adds a Indiana case where her daughter’s child was saved from severe eczema, cured by Cuticura Remedies with no relapse. A Michigan notice dates Aug 15 to Sept 2, 1907.
Bishop Potter read a Coopers Town School boy’s essay on clergymen at an ecclesiastical dinner in New York. The humorous piece lists three kinds of clergymen bishops rectors and curates. It quips that bishops tell rectors to work while curates must do it.
Advertisement notes a free sample from Allen B. Olmsted in Le Réy N to test Allen's Foot ing feet for new or tight shoes. Mentions a corn bunion core and states druggists and shoe stores sell it for 25 cents.
The Chicago Tribune recounts a dime museum fire where rescuers used two strong derricks to remove a fat woman from danger. She reacted with hysterics upon learning she was safe.
An old ad describes Pettit's Eye Salve as a tonic for eye strain and watery eyes, marketed by Howard Bros. of Buffalo. A separate shipment note claims Dunkirk chalk totaling 34 611 tons moved to the United States in 1805, and another line advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children at 3 cents a bottle.
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