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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1908
Page
6
A traveler narrates first impressions of Honolulu and nearby sights. The piece describes welcoming wreaths upon arrival, street flower vendors, and a humorous auto ride through the islands with mishaps. It also notes political speakers, an aquarium display, and vivid scenes of Haleakala and Kilanea crater legends.
Levinsky, despondent, meets a famous specialist and surveys a crowded waiting room. He frets over cost but discovers the fee is fifty dollars for the first visit and twenty five dollars for each subsequent visit, then grins at the turnaround and proclaims to the doctor, Here I am again.
The article describes a tarantula as non aggressive to humans and rarely intrusive. It stays mostly underground, emerges at sundown to hunt insects near its burrow, and can survive months without food while awaiting water. It seals its entrance in autumn and reemerges in spring.
On August 2, 1870 a group of young men serenaded Jefferson Davis after a band played Dixie and My Maryland. Davis expressed gratitude for the warm greeting, praised Virginian generosity, and prayed for their prosperity and peace across wide borders.
A pane in an old London house bears the inscription "John Woolley Brand, Painter and Glazier, March 12, 1706" cut by a glazer's diamond. The mark predates Jack Sheppard by nine years, placing the date over two centuries ago.
A dialogue shows Mrs Nuvoe Reeshe ordering visiting card samples from PipBang's secretary. About 100 cards in various styles were received, bearing the city’s first families. She directs to discard them all after viewing.
The article argues mid winter is dull for retail, but mail order houses gain while local merchants drop advertising. Local shops should boost campaigns with circulars, price comparisons, and publicity to compete. D M Carr urges home merchants to study large firms and use printer's ink to attract rural customers.
A discussion on growing demand for pure food across states and the nation. It notes frauds in baking powders flavoring extracts coffees and teas and the need for stringent measures to protect health and consumers.
The piece rejects doomsday views that small country merchants will vanish as large retailers dominate. It asserts trade follows natural economic laws, with settlers building towns around local stores that become hubs of growth, while department stores may expand yet never fully replace small shops.
The piece details a New York mail order fraud ordering letters demanding 88 cents for a supposed premium. It notes thousands of letters and 5,000 responses promising a valuable dish, with the pack costs at 30 cents. The author condemns such schemes as harmful to the public and a nuisance to the post office.
The excerpt warns that co operative stores appeal to farmers in the west where prosperity breeds greed for more. It notes promoters seek stock, promising investment gains and higher profits, while jobbing houses back the movement to profit from gullible investors.
The Milwaukee Journal reports a rare Assyrian marriage ceremony in Milwaukee attended by over 200 guests, featuring silent bride Lizzie Herra for three days, handkerchief throwing, separate gendered rooms, and a banquet of exotic dishes with no bread or sweets. Richard Frenn is the groom.
William F. Eggleston, a Great Northern railway platform inspector, is accused of stealing dresses, hams, costumes, cigars, cameras and cheese and has been remanded at Retford England.
Mrs Sophia Crotto aged 105 in Quebec talks softly and prays daily to la bon Dieu as her faculties fade though her voice and appetite remain. The report notes she is alert and her appetite intact while suffering overall decline.
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