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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
6
Trusteeship and assessor roles highlighted for William J Sigerfoose and Eber Darling SR. Two named officials involved in local governance referenced in a brief civic notice. positions noted without further detail.
A testimonial touts Hyomei as a cure for chronic catarrh asthma bronchitis hay fever and colds. G J Stevens Crown City Ohio reports two bottles cured him and House Worth Bros guarantees cure or money back. Complete outfit costs $1.00 and refills 50 cents. Dry air treatment kills germs and soothes inflamed membranes.
A man in laborer’s clothes contemplates lifting an empty barrel to the second floor as a crowd offers crude contraptions. He finally hoists the barrel himself with a red bandanna, demonstrating plain grit amid comic ingenuity. Includes ad snippets and brief notes on Arab music and local services.
Miss Helen L Bailey shares her celery farming plan near New York city detailing a three acre effort that cleared a mortgage and funded education. She covers seed, greenhouse care, field prep, weed control, boarding for blanching, harvesting, washing, and packing to fetch 40 to 60 cents a dozen with yearly net around $1,000. The piece emphasizes discipline, timing, and market awareness to achieve reliable profits.
The fall webworm nests mar shade tree foliage on elm hickory ash apple and plum. The dark brown pupa over winter becomes a white moth laying up to 500 eggs in April or May. Webs may reach over three feet. Control methods include burning pruning crushing and spraying with arsenate of lead or lime mixtures.
In Russia infectious diseases are highly mortal with children bearing the heaviest burden. Diphtheria measles scarlet fever and smallpox devastate villages and rural towns across the country.
The piece notes arm bone arrangement favors bringing food to the mouth and suggests try it to see how naturally the band moves. It defines a Burman mile as about two English miles and explains Burmese word for mile means to sit, and it is the distance a man travels before resting.
Odd plant lore describes a bread tree in Ceylon its fruit edible as bread a milk yielding tree in Barbuda andean regions a butter producing oak like fruit in Africa and soap bark in China. Other notes discuss sapindus soapberries torpedoed by camphor and the buoyant quips of a bachelor and widow. The article also touches river flow noting top velocity near surface and bottom friction varying with depth.
A brief exchange quotes Jones and Miss Strong about female suffrage. Jones argues a women’s club should focus on issues far removed from suffrage while Miss Strong counters that suffrage as its object is essential. The debate highlights diverging views on women’s organizational goals.
A quotation from the Birmingham Age-Herald in The Daily Review notes that some hold odd notions of sentiment, citing one man who treasures the slipper his mother used to spank him with as an example.
An old advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female ailments. It claims to cure displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities pains backache and nervous prostration and invites women to write for free confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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