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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1907
Page
3
A reader reflects on making a new house feel like home. The piece argues a welcoming, well kept home enhances daily life and invites comfort for all residents. It urges practical improvements and personal touches to create beauty and warmth.
James Lewis narrates the tale of Robert Gaston, a wealthy bachelor who pursues romance by boarding a Naples voyage to view Vesuvius. He meets heiress Miss Davison, helps fund her multimillion dollar inheritance suit, and falls in love, only to have her depart with the funds and him.
The British Medical Journal notes the oldest artificial leg in existence is housed at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Found in Capua’s tomb, the bronze leg with wooden core shows iron bars and a quadrilateral iron piece for strength, with a belt at the waist and red figure vases at the skeleton’s feet dating to about 300 CE.
A Washington Star quote features Cuinrox arguing that wealth brings comfort yet nothing replaces hard work. He insists the fortune provides mobility but stresses discipline and etiquette as essential to progress.
The Osage river creek gift to Commodore C A Pollock was declined as impractical to transport. The Missouri farmer who donated the waterway after a fishing trip joked about its size and suitability. A separate quote notes Lord Lytton’s Richelieu as a guide to youth virtue.
An advertisement promises a flawless complexion using a hidden method from “the ORIENTALS” and offers a free diamond ring with purchase. It touts savings on cosmetics and assures simple steps to remove pimples, blackheads, and blemishes, claiming this secret is easier than creams or liniments.
A historic promotion extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and related tonics, praising known composition, natural ingredients from American forests, glycerine extraction, and assurances against alcohol. It warns against substitutes and urges buyers to demand medicines with known composition and proven cures.
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