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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
1
An opulent dinner with Barbarians and a dyspeptic cast unfolds amid rare wines and cigars. Higbee tours a 22 room apartment while barons and Cripple Creek princes mingle with Mile and others, as champagne and brandy flow and social chatter fills the night.
Oldairs and wealth mingle at a New York gathering hosted by the Millereys. Guests include Mrs. Gwilt-Athlestan and Cornelia Van Geist as social plans loom for a daughter’s marriage while rumors swirl about money, status, and future power among the city’s elite.
Mrs Hanson fears a fever from cold apartment as a land lord steam radiates early. Her husband insists rules apply to all. He visits the landlord to fix heat. That afternoon the couple contends about comfort and illness while the steam pipe warms the room.
A Washington Star item quotes an earnest reformer predicting ten years will bring twenty more grafting incidents. Senator Sorghum adds he hopes for a substitute. the exchange centers on timing and standards of political reform.
The Rome correspondent of the London Pall Mall Gazette recounts Pope Pius X at work with a pen that pricked him under the nail. An ink stain and a secretary’s disinfectant wash lead to laughter. The pontiff jokes that he remains a man not a baby and continues with the ceremony.
The New England Lime company of Winstead, Conn. claims to be first to use gas as fuel for lime burning and reports full success. Gas eliminates clinkers and cinders, yields whiter lime, and delivers hotter, more efficient kilns. Daily output per kiln rises from 80 to 100 barrels, totaling about 700 barrels daily.
The Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad promotes farm labor in Minnesota and the Dakotas with low rates from all points. Tickets sold daily August 1–31, 1906. Wages from 1.75 to 8.00 dollars per day with board included. For rules contact Agents or write A. B. Cutts, G P T A, Minneapolis.
A German publisher began issuing Goethe letters with twenty years elapsed. Thirty four volumes are in type and the final letters, to fill fifteen more volumes, should appear within four years.
Mrs A Taylor of Wharton New Jersey describes severe kidney pain back ache and frequent burning secretions. She tried doctors without relief then used Dean's Kidney Pills and after eight boxes her trouble disappeared and health returned. Sold by Foster Milburn Buffalo NY at 0 cents a box.
A story about an ancient rabbi who hides his wife away while she washes her head to preserve modesty. When neighbors learn she is not truly gone, both children die and the rabbi is banished for deception. The tale argues whether some deceit can be excused in pursuit of a perceived good.
Superb service and scenic routes advertise travel en route to Niagara Falls, Muskoka, Kawartha Lakes, Georgian Bay, Temagami, St Lawrence River, Thousand Islands, Algonquin Park, White Mountains and Atlantic coast resorts via a double track line from Chicago to Montreal and Niagara Falls. Copies of tourist publications may be requested from Geo. W. Vaux, A. G. P. & T. A., 135 Adams St, Chicago.
A Dallas county man attempted suicide by hanging from a barn rafter, blaming his wife for interfering while she retorted with a wry heaven pun. The column then notes that some modern giants rival prehistoric beasts in bulk, including whales and horses, and mentions African missionary work and a patent remedy for teething gums.
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