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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1911
Page
7
Jack, a college student skilled in ancient languages, failed to translate a cryptic sign reading consultus about your ey 5. His sister notes the mix of Latin and nonsensical words, while the cook easily renders the phrase as Consult us about your eyes.
A Miss Elizabeth Gebrki of Forrest City Arkansas describes six months of intense itching and sleepless nights from eczema. After trying doctors medicines and Cuticura Soap and Ointment she reports relief within a day and cure in three weeks. The ad promotes samples from Potter D. & C. Corp. also recounts a Highland piper tale.
A cashier refuses to honor a check when told the account is overdrawn causing the woman to react with disbelief and a quip that she suspected trouble since her husband wrote the check before they could confirm funds.
Advertisement style snippets note Castoria for infants with the “4 Signature” label and a claim of over 30 years in use. It mentions Fletcher's Castoria and a joke about a play scene a bald hero. Also warns that a pin scratch can cause blood poison and promotes Hamlin's Wizard Oil. Garfield Tea is praised for liver and kidney issues amid a courtship metaphor.
Washington views the Mexican crisis as a battle between money and the military. Limantour, backed by global financiers, allegedly forced Diaz to resign from the cabinet and now seeks true dictatorial power. He urged peace through diplomacy, citing two billion dollars in Mexican investments and U S military presence in Texas as leverage.
James A. OGorman, a longtime New York Supreme Court justice and Tammany leader born May 5, 1860, was elected to succeed Chauncey M. Depew. He favored tariff revision, reciprocity with Canada, parcels post, Panama Canal fortification, direct senate elections, and a federal income tax, urging strict government economy and opposing monopolies and centralization.
Emilio Estrada was chosen as Ecuador’s president and will be inaugurated August 10 1911 succeeding Gen Elroy Alfaro. The cabinet and congress structure described includes a directly elected president and vice president, four year term, biennial senate, two-year house of representatives, and limited voting rights for universal male literacy.
Dr. Daniel K. Pearsons of Hinsdale Illinois has given away about five million dollars to colleges and missions before his death the last of his fortune is his home valued at thirty thousand dollars He says his philanthropy made him richer and his colleges are his children He cites Berea College as his best gift and notes education in Kentucky mountains breeds Lincoln type men.
The Bartholomew Close district in London, once home to Milton and Benjamin Franklin, is set for demolition to make way for new roads by the Smithfield meat market. The old area, part of St. Bartholomew’s priory precincts, contains rambling streets and a preserved house now occupied by a plumber. Franklin’s former workplace at Palmer’s printing office is gone, and while locals lament the loss of antiquity, slum-clearing pressures drive the project.
An illustration shows an adobe house in St. Augustine claimed as the oldest in the United States. Traditions place its 1516 construction in the Spanish era, attributed to builder Don de Toledo amid competing assertions of age.
Leechburg Pennsylvania farmer D W Croyle of Tarr Town reports a newly born calf with no tail. He seeks a method to protect the animal against flies in summer, noting the calf is otherwise normal.
San Francisco reports the coast artillery corps of the National Guard of California has arranged for Eugene Ely to act as instructor for the aviation squad. This marks the first aviation unit organized by a militia corps.
A father notes his son’s sharp eye after an order reveals a spelling lapse. The old man recalls Gibson pays cash, while the son fusses over errors and propriety in the shop. The tale underscores practical value over niceties.
A New York judge struck down a law requiring drivers who hit pedestrians to stop and identify themselves. The ruling said criminals have no obligation to testify against themselves, sparking debate from James Halden Wilkes of Atlanta's Defense Society who warned justice may be blind.
A Liverpool magistrate faced five youngsters aged seven to eleven accused of two months of thefts and depredations. Police filed 40 charges, with the seven year old described as the ringleader and a skilled planner of thefts.
Indignant Samuel Johnson refused to hear his children recite or sing, arguing against par ents who push early talking. A friend suggested his two sons recite Gray's Elegy alternately for cadence, but Johnson answered that both should speak at once.
An Arizona man reports breakfast woes from soft starchy foods and coffee headache relief after switching to Postum and Grape-Nuts. He claims better digestion, weight gain, and fewer headaches, praising Postum Co. for claims and product rhetoric.
Since 1907 sixty five open air schools for tuberculous or at risk children have opened in twenty eight cities per the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The first was in Providence Rhode Island on January 1 1907, with Pittsburg and Boston following later that year and in 1908. The program reports show most children regained health and function, and a school is urged for every 25 000 population, especially in cities.
A brief exchange notes a new employment for Arry with reassurance that work is temporary. The line suggests a casual, humorous tone typical of London Opinion dialogue. The statement minimizes concern about unemployment and frames the situation as temporary.
A collage of old advertisements promotes Allen's Foot-Ease shoe relief and various tonics. Claims include easier fitting shoes, eye remedies, Garfield Tea as a laxative, Mrs Winslow's Syrup for teething, and social aphorisms. Read as a historical price of daily wellness products and moral quips.
A farmer from Willis, Michigan endorses Hood's Sarsaparilla as a longtime household cure for cleansing the blood and removing winter humors. He takes it annually in spring to counter weather exposure, praising its unique efficacy and noting available Sarsatabs tablets.
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