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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
7
Delbert Building architect Norman R. Coulter praises Electric Bitters as tonic medicine for stomach, liver, and kidney disorders. He calls it the best spring medicine and a superior blood purifier sold by druggists for 50 cents at R F Billing's drug store.
A storyteller recalls a school lecture by a geologist who described the Niagara Falls wearing back toward Buffalo over 200000 years, predicting Erie would be left dry, provoking a sob from a girl whose sister lived there.
Mr John Riha of Vining Indiana reports selling DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills for about a year with many customers satisfied. He claims perfect results for users and notes he has used them himself. Sold by R F Billings.
A Philadelphia Library official recalls books returned after long absences from three years to over a century. One classical volume hid in Holland before being sent back to Locust and Juniper streets, with staff noting other long-lost works may still surface.
An old advertisement touts Dr King's New Life Pills as a cure for headache biliousness constipation and malaria. It guarantees a cheerful refund at R F Billing's drug store if they disappoint.
The Yukon river natives observe an annual festival of the dead before Christmas and a larger festival occasionally. They provide food drink and clothes for returning ghosts in the village clubhouse. Lamps lit with whale oil burn day and night to guide shades back and forth.
The Hi kimos hold a festival where descendants invite spirits with songs and feasts. They offer a portion of each dish to the shades and pour water to carry nourishment to the dead. Dancers perform at clubs graves and even on ice. relatives summon ghosts by placing a seal spear or wooden dish at graves.
The mature tumbo is a two foot trunk mostly underground with a fourteen foot circumference stem resembling a loaf crust. Leaves are six feet long and two feet wide, split into ribbons like octopus tentacles. Flowers form scarlet cones on the crown, and the plant thrives in arid desert conditions and sea fogs. It is a remarkable plant novelty from the Gnetaceae family, known only from Portuguese West Africa to Damaraland. New York Botanic Garden notes its desert cultivation.
A novice tenor in an Episcopal choir feels out of place in vestments and worries about misstepping on chancel steps while the basses and rector prepare for the processional. The scene contrasts his nerves with the others as he doubts his own singing role. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is advertised for bowel relief and gentle inflammation reduction, pitched as child friendly and palatable by Kt. F. Billings.
A Colombo report cites the U.S. consul declaring the pearl banks of Ceylon are the oldest and most continuous fishery. It notes Vijaya the first Singhalese king, in 550 BC, gave his father-in-law a gift of pearls, showing a settled coast fishery before recorded history.
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