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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1914
Page
2
A London writer notes the bloater herring’s poor restaurant value and high price, citing slow prep and large annual yields. The piece also contrasts Irish adaptability with English social awkwardness, drawing on Nesta Webster’s Sheep Track.
Dr A C Miller of San Francisco was appointed as a member of the Federal Reserve Board created under the new currency law.
An historical note on khaki making the earth color from India. It traces early methods using manure baths and various dyes, then explains modern processes with iron and chromium oxides and ferrous sulphate.
The report notes ragtime struggles to gain traction in Italy and Spain despite its U.S. popularity. Consul Alexander Bell doubts the genre’s market in Catania, Leghorn shows limited foreign music demand, and Spain mainly imports German and French works. In Strasburg, ragtime enjoys strong sales, while the remark on remarriage offers a folk proverb about repeating mistakes.
To guard against any possible attack the Panama Canal is now guarded by a company of United States infantrymen stationed at each lock. The photograph shows some soldiers and their tents at Pedro Miguel.
Miss Jane Delano leads the four thousand Red Cross trained nurses as chairman of the national committee on Red Cross nursing service. She serves without pay and is a Bellevue Hospital graduate in New York City.
The London Chronicle reports visitors from country cousins asking why many bronze monuments in London look unhealthy after cleaning. Verdigris coats the Gladstone statue and Shaftesbury fountain, with noxious fluids staining stone, while Embankment Gardens athletes remain well kept.
A new English mine rescue apparatus weighs 28 pounds enabling a man to work in deadly gases for over five hours without a helmet. The device promises safer, longer operation in hazardous underground environments.
A summer trip to a White Mountains farmhouse ends with a girl seeking a donkey to ride. The animal’s strange sounds distress her, prompting a letter to her father pleading for his return as the donkey’s loneliness is noted with a humorous misspelling.
An advertisement extols Cuticura for red rough chapped hands. It prescribes soaking in Frothing water with Cuticura Soap then drying and applying Cuticura Ointment with loose night gloves. It claims the emollients prevent redness roughness and impart velvety whiteness. Free samples offered with a Skin Book by mail from Boston.
A North side hostess displayed a butterfly tray inspired by nature. A ten inch glittering butterfly is mounted on milkweed, covered with glass, hermetically sealed, and used as a stunning center piece for a butterfly luncheon.
The New Jersey Supreme Court in Bolton v Bolton holds that when a wife files for bankruptcy the trustee in bankruptcy may seize alimony arrears for the benefit of creditors. The court notes that nonpayment creates debts for her support, alimony is for her cash support, and discharge in bankruptcy wipes those debts, making it unjust for creditors to be without access to the alimony fund.
Mr. Bacon notes a 700 member San Francisco dishwashers union with 100 college graduates. Mrs. Bacon counters that some claim colleges fail to teach usefulness to young men.
A playful quip about a woman known for unconventional behavior and her marriage to an electrician.
A Tennessee woman details how stopping coffee and using Postum improved her digestion nerves and sleep. She notes a weight gain from 117 to 170 pounds and credits Postum as her health change, calling herself a living advertisement. Postum varieties and prices are listed, with sales by grocers.
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