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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
1
Ray Walters’s serialized tale follows Elisabeth Gabrielle and Elise as they travel to Canada for a summer aboard a steamer. Frightening glimpses of a mysterious man and a later encounter with Mrs. Graham hint at secrets aboard and at a weathered cottage awaiting a fateful decision.
Giuseppe Serao, 26, jailed at Bari for burglary, learned his fiancée wed another. He promised to kill her, killed her the same night, and returned to prison content with punishment. The jailer was arrested for complicity in the events.
Mrs BR C Richmond of Northwood Iowa reports long battling kidney trouble backache dizziness and bearing-down pain. After trying several remedies she used Dean's Quincy Pills and the backache ceased after three boxes. Health is perfect now. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
A clergyman in an interior town wed a woman who gave him a $10,000 dowry and a prospect of more. While preaching he began a hymn, read the first verse, then the fifth, and paused to say the choir would omit it. Congregants read the fifth verse themselves and smiled at the verse about boundless grace and more blessings.
A reminiscence recalls Mrs Roth McEnery Stuart reading her own anglo dialect tales for charity. Her son boasted of her skill claiming she can speak two languages, white and colored, reflecting playful early fame and social humor.
In a visit to the nephew in the city the two dine at a restaurant. While waiting for their meals the younger man asks about cerebro-spinal meningitis. Uncle Zebulon responds he would rather have fried food than the disease or its mention.
A Michigan woman recounts stomach and nerve recovery after a year of illness. After trying Grape-Nuts, she reports renewed appetite, energy, and ambition, saying she could work again and feel better overall. The letter promotes the cereal with a Your postman’s note and mentions connection to The Road to Wellville.
A Bengali gunman tried to kill Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser during a lecture in Calcutta. The revolver misfired and the secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, Mr Barber, was wounded in the head as he tackled the assailant. The lieutenant governor and the Maharajah of Burdwan were present and unharmed.
New York postal officials raid George W. Emanuel & Co private bankers after uncovering a plan to defraud by selling stock in a Mexican gold mine. Literature claimed a 29 percent yearly return guaranteed by an international banking house. About 40 investors sent at least $500,000.
Willemstad reports Holland has revoked the 1894 treaty with Venezuela after President Castro’s May decree. The Curacao government orders the port of Curacao opened to weapons and ammunition imports and announces it will not interfere with revolutionary movements.
In Chicago Prof Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago denounces the U S occupation of the Philippines arguing Filipinos will not adopt English and that American teachers are interior while local taxes fund improvements. In Fargo Protestant Episcopal church leaders from eight midwestern states meet for the sixth missionary department conference opening with a festival service at Goethsemane cathedral.
Taft will not enjoy his vacation in Hot Springs Virginia as he must honor a prior pledge to speak before the Prison Martyrs Monument Association in Brooklyn. He plans to depart Friday night and return to his cottage after the speech next Saturday. Governor Sheldon in Lincoln contemplates an extra session to push statewide prohibition with a favorable majority possibly triggering a special session.
It was officially announced yesterday that the diet will be opened December 22. In other news, John E. Goding, former president of the defunct state bank of Rocky Ford Colorado, was sentenced to ten years in state prison for unlawfully using bank funds and receiving deposits after insolvency was known.
A dying man asks relatives to carve on his monument a single line about a man who worked for his living. His request, made in humility, stuns his wealthy relatives who fear bragging about lineage and quietly reflect as he slips into sleep.
An advertising notice urges mothers to examine every bottle of Castoria, calling it a safe remedy for infants and children and noting its longstanding use for over 30 years with the familiar signature.
The text contrasts eye appearances with temperament, noting a stony eyed man is cold, a smiling eye is friendly, and a cross eyed person can be amiable. It reflects dated notions linking eye shape to character, with examples of a quarrelsome woman and a pleasant friend.
Mrs Lenora Bodenhamer of Kernersville writes of chronic stomach trouble and nervous unease. She says Peruna and Manalin, after doctor guidance, relieved her symptoms and improved her health. She urges others with similar complaints to try Peruna based on her experience.
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