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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
6
A terse warning links recurring colds to serious diseases like pneumonia and chronic bronchitis, urging prompt treatment. It touts home remedies and a patent medicine, claiming proven relief and urging constant use of "lruna" for first symptoms. Also promotes Salzer seed catalog and farm seed yields with prices, then notes early trains and medical quack claims.
Samuel Reed, at Oakland City, built a cooking fire that exploded when the range vented hot steam. Fragments blasted walls and doors, fire broke out from coal oil, and Mrs Reed narrowly escaped injury as the fire alarm and frozen water pipes delayed control. The blast left the kitchen wrecked and the house heavily damaged.
Residents of Young America rush to deposit money in Kokomo and Logansport banks after a town raid that saw robberies at several stores and post offices and the theft of a horse and buggy. Stage driver Abedolinsen carries gold silver and paper money on each trip amid the financial tremors.
Decatur WL lawman Charles V Fenimore was shot in the thigh during a train yard confrontation with tramps he had ordered off the train. He stood his ground despite being outnumbered, then fell backward as he was wounded. The tramps escaped arrest. In Muncie, despite factory shutdowns and hundreds of vacant houses, population holds steady as many families double up, boosting school enrollment.
Patrolman Henry Nisters of Vincennes lies near death at 45 after an accidental gun discharge at his home. He had completed a night shift and was climbing stairs when he slipped. his revolver in an inside pocket fell out and discharged, the bullet tearing his right thumb and lodging in his neck.
A hog on Charles Egha's farm near Richmond lived six months without food or water after being buried by an overturned straw stack. The animal, though thinner in flesh, was found alive and sprightly when the stack was torn apart.
John Shank once a prosperous South Bend businessman has been moved to Danville to face embezzlement charges. Once influential he lost status and spent time in a county asylum after his business collapsed due to drinking.
Judge Tiety of Vigo Circuit Court upholds constitutionality of miners washhouse requirement from the last Legislature. The law, pushed by Senator Blank of Greene county, mandates operators to furnish hot and cold water washhouses for miners. In other news a well dressed stranger killed himself by stepping in front of a Lake Shore train at La Porte, age about 35 with no identifying papers. Bertha Utley, 18, drank chloral after a quarrel with lover James Wheeler, a city fireman, and faces a likely death risk. her mother attempted to shoot Wheeler but was stopped by officers.
Fifteen Italian quarry workers at Reed's station deserted in panic after warning placards and anonymous threats. They boarded trains bound for the east, leaving behind unsettled conditions for local authorities and employers.
Mrs. Wattle Currier of Thomaston Maine reports her nine month old sufferer with rash on face and feet causing sleepless nights. She credits Cuticura Remedies with rapid relief after only hours and claims cradle cap cleared as well.
An editorial essay extols Western Canada for grain farming in 1900s style, citing settlers from the United States and Europe. A letter from Frank Morrey of Gelvington, Sask describes high yields, fertile land, and ready homesteads near Wadena, with wheat up to 80 to 60 bushels per acre, oats 75 to 100, and abundant water and game.
An early writer warned that tight fine houses risk unhealthy interiors but argued intelligence and thoughtful design can make brick homes as healthful as cabins. He asserted air and sunlight should enter regardless of material, urging ventilation and light in all dwellings.
In Manchester a king aged and weary paces the stage asking which son should receive the crown. A voice from the gallery quips why not half a crown apiece, provoking laughs in the crowd at the theater.
The snippet notes Highlanders' strong faith in clergy, recounts two elderly women debating sermon content with biblical words Nebuchadnezzar Belshazzar Caledonian, comments on rising living costs except Mrs Austin's pancake flour, and hints at Paris cafe waiters possibly striking over mustaches.
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