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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
6
A college graduate toiled in a Michigan lumber camp recalling a cross-saw lesson from an old man. Vignettes include Doan's Kidney Pills endorsements, a fee free Alderley church, and a judge in Wyandotte County using child jurors to test punishment ideas.
Mount Vesuvius erupts again as observers on Mars lament the gap in communication with Earth. In New York City more than 200 men are laboring to advance automobile technology.
Miss Daisy Tallbott, a Fair Farmer Girl from Bono, wrote her name and address on an egg sold to a huckster. It reached Joseph Palmer of Decatur who wrote to her and they exchanged letters. A marriage proposal followed and a wedding occurred recently. The bridegroom is a well known Decatur young man. Miss Tallbott is esteemed in Lawrence County.
The gown features an embroidered daisy pattern in silk matching the pongee fabric. A novel waist and sleeve effect enhances the overall style of the garment.
Port Fulton cannot raise a candidate for town treasurer after James W. Taylor resigned. A special election is needed to fill the short term, but no one will fund a campaign. The town cannot withdraw funds from the Jeffersonville bank to pay its bills as they accumulate.
In front of hundreds of Chicago excursionists at Michigan City a 13 year old and a 14 year old choir boy from Trinity Cathedral drowned after being swept beyond safe depths. The body of George Staiger was found an hour later. The boys were under the care of Very Rev Frank E Aitkin, dean of the cathedral. Other items note a swindler sought by police for stealing 1300 from Minnie Daniel in a depot and suspected bigamy, a mine dispute in Terre Haute, a Newark heir in New Jersey estate talks, a suicide note on Leilia Powell’s porch, a man shooting at his own head with bullets glancing off, and a death from lockjaw after a hay wagon accident.
A dialogue about a slow auto leads to a remark on defective equipment and victims. An advertisement for Mother Gray’s Australasian Wan-Leaf promotes a herbal regulator for women with back pain urinary bladder or kidney trouble with a sample offered free and 50 cents for a full package by mail from The Mother Gray Co LeRoy New York.
An old piece explains that scorpions often die by their own actions after being struck by a centipede. The creature twists and stings its own neck, causing death. The article notes sore throat as a misfortune and mentions Hamlin’s Wizard Oil as a cure. It ends with a quip about world peace and armament sales.
Louis Beck of Laporte drowned in the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco after venturing beyond his depth. Andrew Carnegie gave Madison Christian Congregation a 750 dollar check toward a matching 750 toward a new 1500 dollar organ. John Lurok aged 45 died in South Bend from tetanus after wounds received earlier this July.
Article surveys exotic delicacies linked to Roosevelt in Africa, noting baked elephant foot and other game like alligator soup and camel meat. It references a Paris dinner by a naturalist and a quip about tasting monkey, plus a short anecdote about ties sold to women and Jim Bludso at a bank fire.
God be thanked for books. They are voices of the distant and the dead and enrich the spiritual life of past ages. Books level society and grant companionship through Milton Shakespeare Franklin and other great writers, allowing a cultivated life even for the poor or excluded from elite circles.
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