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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
7
A first person account describes a sailor flung from an ocean liner into the Atlantic. He fights to stay afloat as the steamer vanishes and returns, fearing a brutal end beneath the propeller. He recalls dreaming of a knife in his back and wakes aboard the rescue boat.
John H. Zirkle of Phillips reports his father long troubled with diarrhoea found relief after using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from a Phillips Republican ad. One bottle cured him and he has been well for eighteen months. Now sixty, he can work as well as a younger man.
A man sends a bright side telegram after a rail crash joking that his friend’s husband was killed with limbs severed. Later, a corrected version arrives noting a more restrained but still grim update: “Your husband killed, head and legs cut off, but only one arm.”
John Hall is accused of taking several articles of wearing apparel without knowledge. He is warned that if he does not immediately return them, his name will be made public.
A magistrate questions a prisoner accused of theft. The prisoner replies with a macabre remark about sleeves being refined. The caption mocks newspapers misnaming suspects during street fights and cites the Los Angeles Times quotation.
A New Yorker named Alfred Clarke funded hermetically sealed leaden caskets with voice and music records placed in a vault beneath the Paris Opera House to preserve performances by Calve Caruso Melba Patti and other virtuosi for future generations. The project aims to preserve tempo interpretation and orchestral renditions for scholars and musicians a century hence.
In Zanesville Ohio Mrs. Mary Lee recalls how her husband James Lee recovered from severe lung illness with Dr King’s New Discovery. A friend suggested the remedy and the treatment restored him to health. The medicine is advertised as a throat and lung remedy sold at RA F Billings drug store in 50 cent and one dollar sizes with a trial bottle offered.
Alfred Henry Lewis presents a portrait of William Howard Taft at forty three, noting his long public service and the dual party dynamics shaping his career. He describes Taft as big, honest, and humorous, with a calm demeanor and strong jaw, a mind clean as a woman's, and a bulk of brawn that underscores his character.
Mrs M M Davison of 379 Gifford Avenue San Jose California extols Electric Bitters as a general family remedy for headache biliousness and digestive relief. The R F Billings drug store guarantees sale at 50 cents per bottle.
Thomas F. Ryan of Standard Oil fame stayed at the West End hotel in London and paid 100 dollars, then 120 dollars, triggering scrutiny from the cashier and proprietor. The gazette confirmed his good standing, but bad weather drove him to Paris after three days, ending his stay.
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