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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1908
Page
1
Western detective H. K. Adair discusses a London movement linked to a semi-total pledge to limit drinking. Lord Roberts praises wives for allowing husbands to frequent clubs, prompting jokes about home duties and vigilance. Washington Star.
Hints for farm work note a broiler should have a full breast and plump body and that barbecues are less common since broilers arrived. It covers poultry feeding with kaffir corn and soft feeds, plus a ration for hens and pen night grains. Also explains cream ripening requires frequent stirring to avoid uneven texture and a coarse, curdy finish.
The article surveys human senses with curious facts about hearing smell taste and touch. It notes how shading eyes affects hearing and how temperature alters taste and perception, and explains eye blind spots distance cues and image persistence. It also discusses smell space differences among species and how color affects flavor perception.
Foundling hospitals are very ancient. It is certain that one was established at Milan in 787, and in the middle ages most principal cities on the continent possessed such institutions.
A brief note states that one body cannot occupy more than one space at the same time, reflecting a physics or philosophical remark about occupancy of space and matter.
John Mitchell former United Mine Workers president has been appointed to head the trade agreement department of the National Civic Federation in New York. He will devote full time to forging employer employee pacts on wages and hours to prevent strikes and lockouts, covering the entire country.
Dr Henry van Dyke of Princeton commends a new book of flies, saying they are wonderful. He notes a concern that leaving them exposed invites spiders to steal them as they drift about.
Former Missouri governor and Democratic campaign advisor chairing the party panel earns praise for political acumen. Descriptions call him the most popular man in Missouri after four years as governor and service as interior secretary under Cleveland.
A Washington Gridiron Club dinner story features Francis recounting a hotel quail joke and a quip about saving funny stories for oneself. The dialogue includes a playful exchange on thoughtfulness and a remark on roads and wealth, reflecting newspaper humor of the era.
The seventh annual report on mortality for 1906 shows white deaths at 17.2 per thousand and negro deaths at 28.1 in cities with large colored populations, with Maryland and Mobile illustrating stark racial differentials. The article notes rising death rates among freed Black people and cites its use in misleading extermination claims.
Pieces cover American royalty descendants Teweeleema and Wootonekanuske in poverty on Lake Assawampsett Mass. and a push for recognition of Massasoit era services. Also notes a Waitsburg Washington grain to biscuit record beating a Minneapolis time, shifts in sheep farming toward mutton, and a Massachusetts governor’s office invitation to walk in. Includes a Sedalia cement worker shirt incident.
A lady asks a professional instrumentalist for a Thursday evening reception with piano solos. The musician replies he will perform for five guineas if paid as a musician, or charge ten guineas if treated as a guest and obliged to endure the guests' chatter.
J. P. Fletcher in Kimball's Dairy Farmer extols tankage as a bone maker and flesh producer. It aids digestion and keeps bowels and appetite strong. Hogs adapt after a few days to its taste and smell. Feed mixed in slop for young pigs and dry or soaked corn for fattening hogs. Pigs should have pasture access during fattening.
The text outlines livestock and field management advice, promoting cutting runt animals, fencing for hogs or sheep, weed control, intensive small scale farming, and careful top dressing of wheat with nitrate by hand. It also covers dairy notes on palatable feeds, milk cooling to improve butter, cow versus beef value, and optimal churn practices for butter production.
The farmer must rely more on his own effort to grow and preserve foods for the dairy herd. With rising prices of commercial feeds, many are now too costly for dairy rations. Silage offers a cheaper alternative and is the most economical feed on the farm.
The article advises curing seed corn in well ventilated, heated rooms, using dry grain for hog feed based on Indiana station tests, and urges rapid marketing of poultry and other stock when ready for sale. It emphasizes dry, properly wired seed ears and cautions against damp facilities.
In 1864 Omaha, George Francis Train funded a hotel project after a window pane incident. He opened the Cozzens House on Ninth and Harney streets with a grand ball attended by Nebraska’s governor and Omaha officials. A gas plant disaster caused a spectacular blackout and the hotel’s downfall within years, while the Herndon House declined and later passed to the Union Pacific.
A educated Philadelphia Black man recalls consulting a voodoo doctor who claimed wealth from wizardry. He describes charms that hid him from a pursuing constable and a forgetful magistrate, plus a tale of a witch cat dream and a $5 spell. The piece notes regional beliefs about animal forms and a Sorghum cross rice barrier.
Mrs M M Davidson of 379 Gifford Avenue San Jose California praises Electric Bitters as a superior family remedy for headache liver and bowel torpor and digestive improvement. The product is sold under guarantee at Houseworth Bros drug stores. Also real estate loan offered by 5c and The Simpson Abstract Office.
Mrs Mary Lee of Zanesville writes her husband James Lee owes his life to Dr Kings New Discovery. His severely ailing lungs improved after using the cough remedy. The ad promotes New Discovery as a throat and lung remedy with a trial bottle offered. Also City Treasurer notice for Elkhart taxes urging payment and penalties.
A humorous exchange notes that ministers children engage in brawls at home with their mother delivering the discipline. The little layman asks if ministers children fight and the reply confirms with a wink at parental authority.
A schoolmaster asks how to discriminate two jars of gas nitrogen and carbon dioxide. A pupil suggests sending a man to inhale both. he would die from carbon dioxide, providing a crude discrimination method.
Loan offers described as money to loan on first mortgage security in sums of 500 dollars or more. Advertises J. W. Fieldhouse at 113 Lexington Ave. Also mentions 2006 piano tuning services by Geo Schaf, piano maker, in Dik hart monthly with phone number 656.
A London Opinion snippet discusses cattle water access arguing continuous availability prevents overdrinking and contrasts it with fixed interval watering. It includes a sarcastic remark on a high bill and a mock exchange about affordability and a stern response.
Dialogue snippets show a couple debating age and marriage. The man mentions parental concerns about youth and a plan to handle expenses, hinting at pressure and logistical worries in an impending union.
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