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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1904
Page
8
An Adirondack traditionalist lists folk remedies for common ailments. Yarrow brew, fir balsam from full moon blisters, gravel weed arbutus, and bladder root aid lungs kidneys. Sage tea with summer savory treats worms. sunflower seed decoction helps whooping cough.
The body constantly produces poisons that affect brain and tissue fluids. Overfeeding and poor digestion allow these substances to accumulate, causing dizziness, tingling, confusion, and even mood and moral distortions in chronic dyspepsia.
An engineer criticizes public demand for high speed as a key wreck cause noting 40 mph as safe while trains often reach 60 to 70. He recalls a city approach with countless signals and warns safety hinges on limiting speed. The piece also covers Maori execution weapons, a brutal method, and students selling themselves in the Caucasus marriage market per Baku papers.
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society explains why it received over 300000 from Mount Auburn Cemetery. In 1829 Boston men including Daniel Webster and Edward Everett envisioned a burial ground. By 1831 seventy two acres became part of Mount Auburn and was consecrated in 1834 after a split with the cemetery committee. The agreement split lot sale proceeds 25 percent to the society and 75 percent to the Mount Auburn Corporation.
The article explains King Edward VII’s right to veto marriages of his nieces and other royal kin under a 18th century act. It notes the oddity to Americans, the reach of the law, and that the sovereign rarely uses the veto except to block politically unsuitable matches or protect heirs.
A Boston Advertiser critique labels British Honduras as England's worst colony. It describes its isolation from Great Britain with limited sea links and delayed news, noting the colony’s late awareness of imperial events and odd celebrations for the king's coronation.
A theater tale notes a heroine unable to display piano skill in her role until inventive staging introduces a piano at the foot of rocks. The scene shows the heroine declaring that despite disaster the piano remains, offering a brief musical interlude. The piece contrasts with a closing line about low electrical power use in U.S. plants.
Jimmie Foley writes from the fair that Governor Bartlett invited Alice Roosevelt to view the Roosevelt cabin but she was not home. He notes North Dakota has a large display and many visitors with about 100 registered attendees from the state.
A public auction will sell a span of driving horses taken up as astrays and appraised at 100. The sale is at the seller's Grand Harbor township farm in section 6 on Saturday July 2 at 5 oclock p m. Cash terms. Justice Peter Morgan. Address A Maxson Devils Lake for farm help wages etc. Victoria hotel office. No office fees. 1atf.
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