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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1908
Page
8
A quality message extols Syrup of Migs and Elixir of Senna as a reliable family laxative. It claims cleansing and relief with no debilitating after effects, actin g naturally and approved by physicians. Advertises genuine California Fig Syrup Co product sold by leading druggists.
In a Tit-Bits style snippet villagers discuss quick marriages and the idea of understanding a partner before wedlock. An old gentleman contends seven years is short, while a listener recalls a 19 year courtship concluding in marriage, prompting a playful exchange about jumping to conclusions.
In a social gathering Senator Greveridge recalled a boyhood incident from Adams county. The judge fell gravely ill as a doctor visited regularly. The morning after the doctor left, a question to the butler revealed the judge had died overnight.
The text traces bells to China with no precise date, noting their initial use to banish evil spirits and storms. It adds that European records describe bells driving away devils and that bells appeared in Europe by the sixth century but were not common in Western churches before the eighth century.
A Denver letter tells of a wife who stopped coffee for health, switched to Postum, and saw her husband adopt it after observing her improved color. The piece also covers the Democratic national convention opening in Denver with detailed ceremonial decor and city-wide illumination.
Murat Walstead longtime American journalist dies at his Cincinnati home in his seventy-ninth year after a cerebral hemorrhage. He began at the Cincinnati Commercial in 1855, led a merged paper as editor in chief, later worked for Brooklyn Standard Union, and became a noted magazine writer and author. He reported Civil War battles and major wars, covered 50 years of Republican conventions, and was the only journalist to report all conventions in 1860.
Walter J. Bartnett, former vice president and general counsel for the Western Pacific railway and for the California State Deposit and Trust Company, was sentenced to ten years in San Quentin by Superior Judge Confey. He was convicted of hypothecating bonds and securities totaling 305,000 belonging to the estate of Wilon M. Colton, of which he was special administrator. an appeal was filed immediately after sentencing. Bartnett was a known figure in New York railroad and finance circles.
A Great Western work train crashed into a Rock Island line at East Sixteenth street crossing in Des Moines Iowa. The impact sent a tender into a smoking car injuring seven passengers. Baggageman W H Urbanus died later in hospital from injuries. Three others were seriously hurt and a dozen slightly hurt.
Birch F Rhodus Edward T Rhodus and Thomas Rhodus were arrested after noon charged with using the trails in a scheme to defraud. The three brothers organized and promoted Central Life Securities and numerous subsidiaries and are alleged to have obtained 8000000 dollars in recent years.
A California limited train from St Louis on the Missouri Pacific collided with a St Louis train from Kansas City two miles east of here at 5 30 Thursday morning. Nine were killed all on the Kansas City train and at least fifty were injured.
A severe blaze hit A. G. Chew’s lumber yard at Tannersville near Hove, Wantashella. The fire destroyed 7,000,000 feet of lumber, 2,000,000 laths, 50,000 broom handles, 18 freight cars and 11 tram cars, with railway des and other goods also damaged.
A Brooklyn man proud of his four year old grandson learns a lesson on words and respect. The boy calmly corrects his grandfather calling him a fool after a doll name mix up. The child offers a compromise asking to call him a lemon instead, ending with the family resolving the misnaming.
The piece surveys global baby naming practices from Islam and Egypt to Hindu and Chinese traditions. It notes slips in the Koran, candles burned for a god, flower names, and child naming at around 12 days. Chinese girls face early numbers, later chosen names, while boys receive temporary names until adulthood.
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