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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
6
A montage of brief items from the Connersville Courier covers topics from airships and bankbooks to royalty and politics. It notes New York society at horse shows, fears of piracy and warship losses, a Honduran naval incident, a Vienna art sale, and Turkey’s planned Dreadnought fleet, with commentary on conservation and a comical note on King Menelik of Abyssinia.
A veteran captain says the sea teems with whales from Sandy Hook to the West Indies. The comment hints that such an abundance would have been fortune to Yankee harpooners of the past, yet the decline of that once great industry has become a constraint on mammals of the deep.
A sunlit afternoon on a remote headland is disrupted by approaching storm and eerie animal behavior. The girl, shielded by a bamboo sunshade, returns to a tense cleft where sudden lightning reveals Winthrope crouched at her door with a beastlike expression.
In a night of howling hurricane and shifting door bars, a lone girl endures floods and fear while securing her shelter in a baobab cave. Blake finds Winthrope badly hurt, and tensions rise as the storm passes and truths surface.
An American heiress Miss Genevieve she Englishman Lord Winthrope and Tom Blake survive a steamer wreck. Blake proves a hero by defending and helping the women. They build a cliff camp, discover water and honey, face fever poison jackals snakes and leopards, and fashion weapons, clothing, and a cave home while tensions rise between Blake and Winthrope.
A 65 year old resident of Mouth of Wilson Virginia describes two years of terrible eye inflammation. After failing home remedies and three physicians, Cuticura Ointment improved the condition within a week and nearly cured in two weeks, with no trouble since. The notice cites Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston as sole preparations.
Public sentiment grows against tuberculosis as sanitoria are established in Minnesota Idaho Missouri Arkansas North Dakota South Dakota and Oregon. Anti tuberculosis associations form and operate across Washington Oregon California Arizona Montana North Dakota Colorado Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Texas Minnesota Iowa Missouri Arkansas and Louisiana. Strong efforts mount to wipe out tuberculosis nationwide.
The article advises a diet for a 70 to 75 year old emphasizing vegetables fruits some fish eggs light meat and simple cereals to avoid obesity. It notes meals should not include drinking liquids and suggests two quarts of water between meals plus hot water for less active individuals and limits on strong tea or coffee.
In a bemused exchange, Gwendolyn laments how tragic it would have been if any parental union had never occurred and if the couple had not been born. Harry consoles as the two ponder the unseen connections of family and life in this Illustrated Sunday Magazine piece.
State of Toledo Ohio Lucas County Frank J Cheney sworn in Toledo on December éth day of December 1886 that his firm F J Cheney & Co will pay one hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J Cheney. Sworn before me A W Gleason Notary Public.
A playful exchange among sewing items. The thread teases the scissors about eye injuries while the needle insists it helps pull the thread through the hole. The pinch of humor comes from the thimble scolding them for noisy behavior and highlighting its push that keeps them working together.
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