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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1909
Page
7
Readings describe a lavish January birthday dinner with eight college friends. The table features dunny jade cloth, red silk, a central cake, red candle wreaths, red carnations, and a red Bohemian glass ring holder gift. Domestic decor includes polisettias and red beads, with a chafing dish Welsh rarebit to close.
A playful verse hints at fortunes in marriage based on birth month from January to December with lines about happiness, hardship, travel, and home life, ending on a riddle about words ending in ure and various clues. The page also mentions a readers guessing contest yielding answers like aperture and leisure as word plays.
The article describes fading tones and new metalized fabrics in Paris designs. It notes gold and silver lace on yokes replacing tulle, ribbons shaping gowns, and ermine theater hoods with pale silk trimming as complementary accessories.
A Maine man Almond Forbes of Brooks born August 10, 1818 in Massachusetts lived in Hancock and Waldo counties yet never moved from his farm. He cast ballots in seventeen presidential contests while residing in two states and two counties, a record noted by local press.
In Brookwood Brook county long time resident Mr Forbes aged ninety one, tax payer and voter, is praised as one of the oldest and most esteemed citizens. A retired farm manager, he remains active in grafting and pruning and is famed for his memory of past events.
A London paper reports a grave at Hanover where a woman born 1766 and deceased 1782 had ordered the tomb not to be opened. A tiny seed grew into a tree lifting the tombstone, defying the deceased infidel’s wish.
The piece promotes a new plant bred by Luther Harbanks in California called the Wonderberry. It bears quickly in three months and can be grown in gardens or pots during winter. John Lewis Childs of Floral Park is credited as introducer and seed distributor widely advertising the berry to agents.
A fragment from a humorous business letter shows a Sotheby style mix of poor spelling and earnest request. Richard Jonas of Cake & Son laments missing soap for a consignment and questions the partner’s faith in his money, ending with a humorous postscript about finding the soap.
A mother from Winchester Tennessee reports her two and a half year old child suffered a painful itchy eruption on hips and legs in October. After two doctors failed, two weeks of Cuticura Remedies cured the condition by February. The child, now fourteen, remains well.
Navy experts predict the United States will lead world naval power by 1911 after completing four proposed battleships Delaware Dakota Florida and Utah each of 26000 tons with eight 14 inch guns. They argue these ships will outrank Britain’s current force and redefine naval strength despite some doubt about British plans and ratings.
The government unveils eight alcohol schools in Washington to train farmers across the United States in producing and using denatured alcohol. A model still can convert 25 bushels of corn daily into 75 gallons of 95 percent alcohol, demonstrating a profitable, low-cost energy source using farm refuse. Experts will visit states to teach farmers how to build and run such plants, highlighting cooperative farming and potential savings over gasoline for grinding and milling tasks.
The piece praises Senator Joe Blackburn for his long service and popularity in Washington and as a commissioner in Isthmian Canal projects. It notes his genial, forgiving nature and his ease in Panama where he adapts to the grandee lifestyle and remains at home in diverse surroundings.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference gold deposits and fiscal year totals, mentioning 207,415,084. The passage is garbled but suggests financial figures and institutional offices, signaling a damaged archival snippet.
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