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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
6
Fragmented text appears as garbled phrases with no clear narrative. The readable bits mention items like years, numbers, and vague actions without coherent subjects or events. No identifiable people or organizations are established from the fragments provided.
Postal Department inspectors warn many Americans remain gullible to fake investment plans. Reports detail Kansas City trials of bogus mining companies, staged stock promotions, and a sequence of letters offering the same stock at varying prices to trap investors and deliver worthless certificates.
Mrs. George W. Morse of Hingham Massachusetts recovered after a spasm of coughing expelled an eye tooth embedded in her left lung for twenty six months. Doctors had treated her for pulmonary tuberculosis, but the sudden cough freed the tooth and she soon began to sleep better. The physician predicted a full recovery though the lung healing would take time.
The Official Board of St Paul Methodist Episcopal Church Chicago abolishes wedding fees for the minister. Fees are now contributions to the church and the pastor will file monthly expense accounts for official duties.
A joint expedition by the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Heye Museum concludes the Nacoochee Mound in White County Georgia is an artificial Cherokee construction from a relatively recent era. Graves and burn pits indicate ritual use through the 19th century, while legends of Santee and Yonah are rejected as fiction.
The text notes French bakers face unusual rules including keeping curtain stock in fortified towns and depositing money with municipal authorities as a good conduct surety. The law also fixes bread prices beyond weights and measures oversight.
A dancing youth uses a pedometer to track a ball and logs thirteen and a half miles in one evening. The article notes average dance lengths: waltz half a mile, polka three quarters, galop or schottische a mile, lan elers a quarter. It claims girls typically dance more and may exceed sixteen miles in a single evening.
In England no arrests may be made on a Sunday except for treason felony or a breach of the peace and freedom from arrest in civil process is a privilege for royalty bishops peers and Parliament members during sittings and surrounding sessions.
Dutch boatmen gauge travel by tobacco pipefuls, a measure of distance between landmarks. The passage notes that Holland’s colonies are sixty times larger than the mother country.
The banana’s producing power is forty four times that of the potato. Dried fruit yields nutritious food and can be made into sausages. Beer can be produced from it, and the skin used to make cloth. Juice serves as ink or vinegar.
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