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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1906
Page
6
A historical report notes beets in Essex reached 16 percent sugar with careful plant selection and culture. Trials compare favorably to sugar producing countries, though commercial success depends on production costs and factory economics.
A New York Sun front shows the health board’s laborato ries department handles many analyses yearly. Reports list items tested from food and beverages to milk and water, with few samples of some foods and several ice cream analyses.
An old-time anecdote recounts Mark Twain, then a budding reporter in Virginia City, describing a stranger who challenged him to a fair billiards game. The stranger won the first shot and won a hair’s worth of a dollar, prompting Twain to vow to teach him a lesson.
Classified notices list multiple terse requests such as money lending, trades for a horse, household help, club and business women interviews with good salary, carpenters and cabinet makers, sewing, cooks and dining room staff, hotel staff, room requests, and property trades. Names include Wm. K. Sixsmith, McCray Refrigerator Co, W. E. Smith, F. P. C., George V. Garter, S. C. Wilhelm, and J. K Wolf, with locations in Kendallville and nearby.
The piece extols proprietary medicines as a blessing enabling home care when physicians are unavailable. It claims Boschee's German Syrup has saved thousands of lives in families, especially for coughs colds throat and lung trouble, and emphasizes its household remedy status.
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