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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1906
Page
2
Opinion essay contrasts male and female risks in work and home. Highlights families of miners and industrial workers facing death, loss of recognition, and the burden of daily survival. Cites Youth's Companion and Chicago Tribune critiques on Indian affairs and government indifference.
A report from the White Earth Indian reservation in Minnesota describes widespread cheating by speculators and alcohol-fueled pawned land deals. Since June 21 Indians and mixed-bloods could mortgage or dispose of lands, with agents powerless due to laws granting rights to manage lands, revealing a long history of oppression and dispossession echoed by authors like Giddings Coe Pimnphrey and Mrs. Jackson.
The Chicago health department bulletin declares every diphtheria death should trigger a judicial inquiry due to avoidable deaths from negligence or ignorance. It asserts antitoxin cures diphtheria when used early and in adequate amounts, criticizing the medical profession for slow adoption and urging accountability for failures.
The Cinelonati Enquirer notes that 1904 railroad accidents killed 291 and wounded 4100 between May 20 and June 30, a figure likened to Civil War casualties and raising nationwide concern. The piece emphasizes the need to end the deadly trend and reduce injuries.
A fragment recounts a curious roadside scene where travelers test a boy’s patience with small coin gifts. The narrator describes offering copper money, the boy’s reluctant acceptance, and the travelers’ blunt moral about wasting time on uncooperative beggars as they continue along a lava road.
A fragmented sketch describes a Chicago millionaire rich and generous who hires guides and drivers to wheel a carriage downhill and collect flowers. A youth with a sunny smile asks for five francs after being told to stop exploiting the poor, and the bystanders support his claim.
Detroit native George F. Labram earned British thanks for frontier defense during the Boer War. He built a large refrigerator to feed the garrison, a telephone network, an elevated conning tower, and a water pump. He designed and produced seven-pound shells and a long-range breech-loading rifle under fire, aiding Kimberley until his death just before relief arrived.
A military authority chats with a friend when a nervy inventor arrives with a bullet proof army coat. The colonel tests it by ordering readiness steps, then the inventor hurries off after a brief interruption.
A fragment resembles a Washington Star note on theater and life. It contrasts stage performance with a net for mosquitoes and hints at jealousy driving men and women apart.
In a waiting room scene two groups observe arriving passengers. A young woman, Miss Cransford, is praised for a flawless complexion while a couple comments on another woman’s looks, revealing social pretensions and casual gossip in a Lippincott’s Magazine era vignette.
J A Haywood of Larkin Texas reports severe backache from sawmill work and gravel pains. After starting Doan’s Kidney Pills the gravel passed and back and bladder troubles ceased. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
Incomplete notice announces travel plans mentioning August 28 and September 2 with return September 8. Homecoming of W. J. Bryan referenced with August 80th. Provides agent contact C. A. Melin TL P. A. Port Wayne Li 940.
The article extols abundant large and small game across British Columbia. Moose elk caribou mountain goats and bears populate forests and mountains while lakes and streams invite fine fishing and bird hunting. Prime big game near Bridge River Ashcroft and Fraser River regions.
A reader recounts improved sleep and daytime wakefulness after switching to Grape-Nuts. She cites relief from indigestion, vomiting, and bloating, noting family improvements and labeling the cereal a brain and nerve restorer. The letter mentions Postum Co. of Battle Creek, Mich. and urges its use for calmer nights.
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