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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1910
Page
8
A physician recalls a lecture on maintaining optimism with patients and recounts a cautionary tale. He visits a house with a deceptive setup where an elderly woman and her niece conspire to test his ethics by posing as the patient and using candied fruit as a ruse to secure a marriage and control a fortune.
Jimmie Skate, an orphan, is aided by stenographer Miss Denton who seeks to reform him. She funds clothes, guides his manners, and visits reveal a tangled tale of gifts, theft, and a detective climax leading to reform school. Wink captions and Providence lore drive the drama.
A fortune teller warns of a wreck at a home caused by a blond woman. The patron notes the event already occurred when the Swedish maid dropped a dumb waiter, breaking all the dishes.
A New Yorker explains how a sailor walks with hands turned back and backs forward, a landsman swings arms outward. The piece then describes the spider’s spinning apparatus under its abdomen, detailing six bodies of which four hold thousands of openings emitting viscous fluid that hardens in air, forming a 4000 thread line astonishing in fineness and scale.
Lord Kelvin’s famed faith in figures led him to test a problem by suspending a cannon ball over his lecture platform to prove the solution’s correctness. In a separate note, Chinese postal service tests courage and endurance before appointing a letter carrier after confronting dangerous terrains and spirits.
Satu reports a recent roof blaze on a Broadway property measuring 50 by 20 feet with 36 feet of length at 18 feet high. A B LaBar describes throat and lung trouble, catarrh, weight loss, and poor health until Dr. Shallenberger, a Chicago specialist, treated him successfully, gaining 46 pounds. He urges others to seek his care.
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