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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
1
A Chicago reader lauds Poruna as a family remedy for children’s illnesses including croup colds and indigestion. Testimonies claim dramatic weight gain and rapid recovery, with doctors both for and against the remedy. A Texan architect credits Peruna for recovery from stomach issues after six bottles.
At about 3 PM in Longview Texas a robbery at Citizens National Bank failed. Alex Walker, a negro, was shot and died at Green County Jail after a gunfight with Sheriff Little and Assistant Cashier J R Sparkman. A posse hunts a possible Confederate accomplice as crowds gather armed.
The president reportedly declined endorsement of a new cabinet post headed by a secretary of health. The piece argues for a secretary of labor to represent wage earners and suggests adding secretaries for railroads and mines and forests to improve regulation and manage expanding interests.
A Lonleville Courier Journal item questions the veracity of sensational claims about debutantes and champagne. It cites Professor John Duncan Junckenbos of New York calling some young women hysterically drunk and exaggerates wine consumption as imprudent. The piece mocks credulity, notes physical limits to drinking, and dismisses the claim of massive champagne intake as myth. It pivots to a scammy advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure, presenting a dated patent medicine pitch amid the fragment.
Edward T. Mason a well to do farmer six miles north of Warrensburg Mo was found dead in his door yard with throat cut a pocket knife near the body and frozen arms hugged a tree He lived with his grandniece Mrs Ben Gains Mason who was crippled was found crouched at the tree root indicating a suicide in January.
The piece laments rapid development harming forests soils waters and mineral wealth. It cites President Roosevelt advancing inland waterways and conservation measures while warning of imminent resource exhaustion and urging duty toward posterity. It mentions soil erosion, declining fertility, neglected waterways, and the need for reclamation and reforestation.
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