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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
6
Water pipes are laid and fruit raising is praised in Beaumont ads. The copy touts superior location and healthful, comfortable living with independence and social advantages. It claims Beaumont offers the greatest bargain on earth for property at 2600 feet altitude.
The piece traces Gabriel Fahrenheit’s creation of the mercury thermometer in Amsterdam around 1720, its scale starting at 32 for freezing, and later adoption of the centigrade system by Celsius. It notes the widespread use of Fahrenheit’s scale, with 212 boiling and 32 freezing, and mentions zero as a quirk. It closes with the uncertain year of Fahrenheit’s death, dated around 1740.
Mrs. Eliot confesses she promised both Mrs. Tufts and Edith Reynolds to vote for them in the club election. She explains she values honesty and kept her word, despite the conflict between pledges. Mr. Eliot questions the act but she insists she kept her promise and did vote for both candidates.
In April 1905 the Kaw river flood inundated Kansas City bottoms crippling railway freight hubs and triggering multi million dollar claims against several lines. A shipment bound for El Paso Texas required papers sent to destination and a El Paso agent quipped there has not been a flood here since B C.
Mrs Craw and her son Edward of Temescal are both very ill with pneumonia. The report notes no woman yet so fiercely set but she will forgive but not forget.
The article argues that no material remains unchanged for ever as weathering and time continually alter substances. It notes that even granite and Egyptian monuments aged 3 000 to 4 000 years show exfoliation and decay, illustrating universal laws of matter and transformation across ages.
A local ad notes diphtheria risk from severe cold and claims Chandberlat’s Cough Remedy quickly cures diphtheria and related diseases. It advertises it for sale by R. F. Billings.
An old advertisement promotes DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills for weak kidneys backache and bladder inflammation. It urges immediate use and lists R. F. Billings as the seller.
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