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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1910
Page
3
Washington state woman Mrs. Enog Shearer of Centralia suffered severe kidney disease and lost one kidney. After five doctors counseled her hopeless, Doan's Kidney Pills brought a dramatic recovery. Shearer asks others to write for proof and notes her age.
Prager, fresh from Savoy London, tours a chic New York restaurant. He jokes his English outshines that of Marquis X who dined after the opera as Paris gowns glow in decollete bodices and pale fabrics. Diamonds flash as the crowd admires snowy shoulders.
A fragmented note recounts a mock scandal about a mother bird and her father deserting for a flying companion. It cites Horace Greeley’s Amherst birthplace anecdote from the Boston Herald and includes a quip about keeping the first shirt put on him. It also preserves a light exchange about a hat as a keepsake.
A letter claims Postum cured his stomach trouble after pneumonia left neuralgia and dyspepsia. He describes long hours of mental work, nervousness, and the blues from coffee use, crediting Postum with health and continued use, urging others to try it.
President Taft defended his administration and warned against lax enforcement of law. He urged unity in the Republican party, backed stronger antitrust aims, and criticized speculative fear in Wall Street while praising Roosevelt and the party’s reform aims. Governor Hughes boosted Taft’s nomination prospects.
A House naval affairs subcommittee unanimously disapproved a Senate bill to promote Commander Robert E. Peary to rear admiral and retire him with that rank. Instead the panel proposed awarding a medal of honor in lieu of the promotion.
Mrs. H. J. Led beter of Mankato Minnesota, recently acquitted of a first degree murder charge, was rearrested on an indictment charging second degree murder. Her husband was the victim in the case.
A blast aboard the battleship Virginia while firing a salute off Cuba injured two gunners mates. The incident occurred Thursday during ceremonial firing in the harbor area.
Sul tan Mulai Hafid in Fez, Morocco resists confirming French loan negotiations. The defiant stance signals growing tension with France and potential international friction.
Paris reports confirm the General Chanzy foundered on Minorca’s rocky coast. 87 passengers aboard with a 70 man crew perished. only one survivor, Algerian customs official Marcel Rodel, rescued by a fisherman and hospitalized at Ciudadela. Winds and surf doomed lifeboats. Separate reports: navy tug Nina overdue with 32 aboard. search ongoing between Boston and Hampton Roads. Pacific Navigation steamer Lima ashore in Magellan Straits. chief pilot and 50 passengers drowned.
In Chicago area, 3098 switchmen from 8 railroads in the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen voted nearly unanimously to strike unless a settlement is achieved. The ballot includes a clause allowing arbitration if no settlement is possible, a point of dispute between railroad officials and vice-president A F Whitney who argues that it bars arbitration.
New York Winfrid T. Denison announced that the National Sugar Refining Company settled with the government for 604 304.37 in back duties on underweighed imports. The total from three big sugar companies reaches 3 434 304.37, with American Sugar Refining paying 2 135 000 and Arbuckta 695 000 in back duties and penalties.
New York announces the engagement of Theodore Roosevelt Jr to Eleanor Alexander a noted New York social figure and musician. She plays violin with the Symphony Club of New York and is celebrated for charm and grace in society pages.
A massive land movement in Marion County Florida draws thousands toward Burbank Ocala Colony as Charles Sieg promotes northern settlers to Florida farms. He first organized colonies in St Johns Park and Jacksonville Heights where acres sold rapidly, land values rose, and new cottages emerged amid growing farm activity and rising profits. The Oregon line and Seaboard rail routes flank the new Marion County tract, signaling a pivotal Florida settlement push.
The Burbank Ocala Colony in Marion County, Florida, attracts settlers from across North America. Charles H Sieg promotes Ten Acres and Freedom to prove the land’s value as a gold mine for farmers, with three new townsites and growing rail access.
An Omaha area promotion advertises the Bur bank-Ocala Colony with Chea H Sleg authorized to sell land at 25 dollars per acre. Purchasers may cancel for a full refund plus 6 percent interest before deed delivery, with 50 cents down and 60 cents per acre monthly, nine months to complete. A coupon offers a free book Ten Acres and Freedom to inform investments.
A downtown business man recalls a breakfast table farce where a waiter swapped biscuits for the bread line and the couple wondered if they were together, sparking a blush and a witty misread about marriage. Another drawing-room scene from Grand Central shows a wary traveler with a green umbrella and a meddling aunt resembling Uncle Josh.
A fragmentary clipping notes quips about doctors wearing Van Dyk beards to avoid confusion with bankers. It toys with references to London and St Paul’s, then shifts to a Jacobite-tinged aside about neighbors and a dog that howls. The stray lines mix quotations and garbled attributions.
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