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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1908
Page
6
An Elkhart advertisement touts Mi O Na as a stomach comfort remedy. It claims the preparation strengthens stomach and intestinal walls to aid digestion and promises a money back guarantee through Houseworth Bros. A 50 cent box is advertised as sufficient for relief.
A London jeweler notes simple tests to distinguish real diamonds from imitations. He describes needle-hole viewing, single versus double reflections, single refraction, and skin-grain visibility as practical, manual methods for buyers and pawn brokers to assess stones. The piece ends with a light Chicago joke.
Rural reader Mrs Mary Lee of Zanesville Ohio credits Dr King’s New Discovery with restoring her husband James Lee to health after severe lung trouble. The ad asserts the remedy relieves coughs and colds, sells 60 cents to 1.00, with trial bottles and a guarantee. Houseworth Bros Elkhart and BE D Millers No 801 South Main advertise Hindi Po kidney cure and nerve tonic with a guarantee and mail offer.
A roundup of notable women and events: Emma Schofield resigns after forty years as a Philadelphia public school teacher. The late Justice Ingalls’ widow donates about a thousand law books to the Rensselaer County Law Library. Boston author Mrs. Nelson W. Titus writes on Boston women at Bunker Hill Monument. Mrs. Humphry Ward opposes women's rights as a leading anti suffrage organizer. Dr. Martha Blughes Cannon, former Utah state senator, moves to California to aid suffrage efforts. Siamese student Hilda Anoon Tran arrives to study U S educational methods and will teach kindergarten and music in Hartford Conn.
A Gleanings item notes Switzerland earned about 9 million dollars from railway operations last year after expenses. Other items include a Spanish belief about rings curing weak eyes and curious notes on a Worcester plant study, a Cincinnati hospital patient misidentifying a dog, a nine story Rio de Janeiro newspaper building, and a New York chauffeur arrested for walking on Central Park grass.
Burr L. Miller of Herkimer N Y has been chosen to create a life size bronze statue of the late Thomas B Reed for Portland Maine. Louis Honore Frechette, Canada’s unofficial poet laureate, died recently and Longfellow praised him as a pathfinder of a new land of song. Frederick Moore, once of New Orleans and now in London, is married to a young Englishwoman while serving as a war correspondent.
The German empress favors needlework even while driving and creates exquisite embroidery. Nicholas II of Russia, aged forty, spent his birthday in captivity at Tsarskoe-Selo and has not slept in the Winter Palace since Bloody Sunday. Prince George of Bavaria soared in a spherical balloon Augusta II for fifteen hours, landing near Immenstadt after a sixty five mile voyage, becoming the first royal aeronaut to ascend.
Curated lines pull a mix of editorial quips and opinion quotes. Newburyport News urges patience during a heated term while Richmond Times-Dispatch likens beef pricing to the chef’s role. Buffalo Express muses on shade and woodmen, and Cleveland Leader jokes on teachers’ longevity paired with salary promises. Chicago Post notes a large Russian army funding plan.
The state railways plan to power mountain routes with long tunnels using liquid fuel. An express train will require roughly double the energy to stop than to start. A new Union station is to be built at an unspecified location.
The text notes Winnipeg serving as a hub for the Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific railways. It projects a three year completion period and cites 26.78 miles of railroad per 10,000 inhabitants in the United States versus 6.2 miles in Germany, 5.5 in the United Kingdom, and 7.4 in France.
Ex Secretary of War Taft claims he never smoked and has no elected office history. Senator Warren owns the largest U S sheep ranch. Senator Nixon runs 45 000 acres in Wyoming and 8 000 in Nevada. Minnesota Governor Johnson performs diving stunts in Norfolk. Hutchinson resigns as Library of Congress reading room head after 33 years. Corsiglia arrives penniless, now owns five Greenfield homes from a peanut business. Eli Hood faces tragedy, morphine and laudanum linked suicides with love notes.
Franklin park will host statues of John Paul Jones and John Barry between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets and 1 K streets northwest Washington with Congress approving 50000 for each statue. Salem Massachusetts reports 1300 dogs, doubling in five years with bulldogs predominant. Erfurt in Prussia famed for seeds and plants as a central flower city. An immigrant hotel on a narrow New York street has a veranda where immigrants gather at night.
The capital prepares for a major gospel campaign described as the greatest evangelistic effort since the Torrey Alexander mission. Harry Russell Childs of New York was elected president of the National Young People's Christian Union at its Washington meeting. Methodists in Seattle plan a large institutional church for Japanese parishioners with Rev. S Yoshiaki likely to serve as pastor. Some New York megachurch pastors will gain fly assistants titled executive secretaries to handle routine tasks.
The text notes a farm and industry shift toward gas engines reducing costs versus horses. It cites 6483 new Industries reported in the south in 1907 vs 6411 in 1906, the best record. It highlights 800 paint factories producing 100 million gallons yearly, rising demand, and 150 million barrels and circular packages made in the U.S. annually. It also remarks on the vast cooperage industry’s reach.
Base Hits notes pitchers Cleveland and Detroit relying on McGinnity’s famed underhand rise ball. St Louis catcher Jack O’Connor has light duties, while VP Somers confirms Lajoie will stay as manager indefinitely. Topsham Me saw the season’s largest score, 63 to 11, in a local game.
The article discusses revived vanity fashions with collarless dresses and large hats, detailing ostrich feather trims, color contrasts, and Paris influences. It notes blouse models, white and colored linen waists with embroidered cuffs, high collars, Panama hats, and negligees with emphasis on cut and materials.
A reader describes a handmade belt sewn from uniform width leather postcard cards in brown on tan. The belt uses three small holes at each end and a leather tie to fasten. The piece accompanies notes on foulard dresses for late summer and early fall and cautions that a tight lining is unnecessary.
The San Francisco Chronicle recounts how Dr Buck, a military store keeper in Washington, redesigned wagon loads in east Tennessee by placing long boards on axles allowing loads to shift quickly. This innovation led to the buckboard concept used in carriages and early automobiles.
An old black man testifies in a criminal case before the District of Columbia court. The district attorney questions if he has been in any penitentiary. The witness admits two stints in Baltimore prisons, then reveals he whitewashed a cell for a lawyer who robbed his client, causing laughter in the courtroom.
W. 8. Gilbert once waited for his first brief as a barrister and faced public talk as he prepared to prosecute an Irish woman for stealing a coat. The old dame interrupted with phrases like Oh divil sit down and Sure now he's a loser yer honor, halting his performance.
A London Tatler excerpt mocks excessive present giving and tipping, noting how modern culture spawns a flood of gifts that strain wallets. It contrasts with grandmotherly restraint and cites officials unable to intervene amid humorous disruption.
In a London scene, Murkie voices harsh discipline as his family tries to help a child who has set himself on fire. The curate arrives, remarking on Murkie's evident distress while the wife extinguishes the blaze with beer in hand.
Mrs M M Davidson of San Jose California endorses Electric Bitters as a superior remedy for headache biliousness and liver and bowel torpor. She asserts a bottle provides more digestive health than any other remedy and notes it is sold under guarantee at Houseworth Bros drug stores for 40 cents.
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