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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1904
Page
8
An Adirondack native discusses home remedies for coughs neuralgia and other ailments. Folk items include yarrow for coughs, balsam fir resin for chest complaints, gravel weed arbutus, bladder root, sage tea, horseradish leaves for neuralgia, sunflower seeds with molasses for whooping cough, onions for inflammation, and nutmeg refreshed every six weeks.
The body is a factory of poisons and improper removal after overfeeding contaminates fluids around brain cells. London Family Doctor links post-meal dyspepsia to retained food causing giddiness tingling thoughts and confusion. It explains irritability despondency and moral depravity linked to gut disturbances.
A veteran train engineer argues safety limits cap speed to preserve rail travel. The piece notes Maori chiefs used jade edged mere pomantu blades for executions, with one killer reputedly ending 150 lives. It also reports Caucasus students selling themselves as husbands to boost families and gain government posts.
At the Massachusetts Horticultural Society annual meeting officials explained why the society held over $800,000 from the Mount Auburn cemetery corporation. In 1829 Boston founders including Daniel Webster and Edward Everett envisioned a landscaped burial ground. By 1831 Mount Auburn was begun on seventy two acres later consecrated. The split in 1884 left proceeds from lots divided one quarter to the society and three quarters to Mount Auburn corporation, accounting for the $300,000 transferred to the society.
King Edward VII has consented to the marriage of his niece Princess Alice of Albany to Prince Alexander of Teck under a law requiring the sovereign's consent for descendants of George II. The act bars most marriages without royal approval, though uncles and nephews may wed freely with the king's assent. The monarch rarely uses the veto, typically to block politically imprudent matches.
The Boston Advertiser calls British Honduras England's worst colony. It lies at America’s doorstep, with a seaboard and wealth, but no regular contact with Britain. Residents are isolated hermits who learn world events months late and celebrated King Edward’s coronation on the original date.
The North Dakota Chantauqua announces a public sale of privileges on Monday evening June 6 1904 at 8:00 pm in Davish Chantauqua office. Sealed bids or auction may set licenses for shooting gallery pins souvenirs natural history items and other sales with bids starting at 20. The board may accept or reject any bid and reserves rights to restrict items printed or bearing the name North Dakota Chautauqua. Edgar LaRue secretary.
A theater heroine who is an adept pianist discovers a scene in the action where she and a piano can share the stage. She enters amid desert rocks and proclaims the savages have spared her piano, offering to play a short piece to comfort the audience. Electric power note follows.
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