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Elkhart Daily Review

Location

Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Aug 14, 1908

Page

8

The Sun and the Sideboard Rifle Mystery

Detective Mason Bradstreet narrates solving a murder case by tracing a rifle bullet through a window, a decanter focus, and sunlit ignition. Peet’s conviction is questioned as the s unlight focus exposes how the killer’s gun fired from within the room, likely via a servant moving the rifle. The tale ends with Peet cleared by discovery of the true mechanism.

Walker Pettingill Peet Mason Bradstreet

The Human Engine and City Air

Hollis Godfrey argues in Atlantic that the human body is a master engine where air is the first necessity for energy. He notes that energy largely comes from before the fuel reaches the body’s cells and emphasizes the role of oxygen and nitrogen in combustion, with carbon dioxide as a key byproduct affecting health.

Hollis Godfrey Atlantic

Food for Cannibals and a Udder Lesson in Cows

In an account from Pearson's Weekly the wreck of the St Paul in 1858 led to the massacre of 326 emigrants on Rossel Island after a search for aid. The tale is tied to sea peril in Polynesia and cannibal horror told in a late 19th century voice. A judge's quip about milking cows ends the fragment.

Polynesia St. Paul Pennard Hongkong Sydney Rossel Prince of Denmark Styx Pearson's Weekly

Philadelphia’s Anti tipping Brushing Trick Explained

A Philadelphia anecdote describes a man offering a silver quarter to a boy to brush it from his hand. The boy often fails after three tries, revealing why brushing a coin off the palm is difficult. The piece notes reader experimentation clarifies the puzzling effect.

Philadelphia Brooklyn Eagle

West England Boys Try Harsh Mole Cure and Mock Humor

The piece notes boys in western England believe squeezing moles to death can cure blemishes and mock the idea as cruelty. It cites Scarcity of English Humor and quotes the London Saturday Review on the decline of wit and the notion of a saving sense of humor.

England London Saturday Review

Inquisitive One Questions Juggler’s Skill Origin

The clever juggler explains his talent as hereditary describing his father eating peas with a knife as the odd origin. The judge recounts the anecdote in a witty exchange about skill and lineage.

The Miser’s Carpet Anecdote From Mayfair

In Sir Algernon West’s One City and Many Men Dr. Quain the physician tells a droll tale of a miserly Mayfair patient on his deathbed. He asks for the carpet strip by his bed to be saved so that no undertaker’s boots will sully it, declaring he will not rise again.

Quain Algernon West Mayfair

Local Elkhart business and professional directory listings

A dense Elkhart directory fragment lists dentists lawyers insurers abstract offices architects stenographers real estate firms and other services with multiple names and addresses across Monger blog Main and Lexington streets including Ch urch & Shaw Simpson Hart and Brunig firms and a variety of service providers.

Simpson Abstract Louis M. Simpson Elkhart County Main St Lexington

Waterway Tales and travel booklet from D and C Line

The Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company promotes its complete Fish and Game Laws booklet and an annual travel magazine Waterway Tales. It offers a 250 page travel book with stories and coast line illustrations for ten cents, postage prepaid, and requests two cent stamps for the booklet.

Mackinac Detroit & Cleveland D. & C. Line D. & C. Coast D. & GC. Navigation Co Wayne Street Detroit Mich Great Lakes D&c Line Bd & C Oll Great Lake Resorts Cleveland

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