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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
6
A traveler recounts a delayed sightseeing ride through Jaffa as a native driver speeds along rough streets. He reaches the station with two hours to spare and complains the trip was too fast, earning the quip that Americans like to go very fast.
The text argues that creating good laws is far harder than repealing old ones. It outlines three core difficulties: unclear aims, uncertain remedies, and too many needed measures. It calls for organized systems to gather and examine laws, drafting departments, separation of local and general bills, drafting error correction, and periodic revision to keep statutes compact and intelligible.
A contemplative essay likens life to building four houses formed by loyalty honor truth and unselfishness with integrity industry justice and goodwill as corners. It contrasts personal domestic virtue with national ideals liberty justice equality and brotherhood and questions how religion shapes character. The piece ends with the image of a fifth house of character and the eternal house not made with hands.
A Newark North Carolina mother describes her six week old son suffering a painful facial eczema that spread to his limbs. After extensive medical help with little success, use of Cuticura Remedies brought relief and complete healing by age seven, with no relapse expected.
A dialogue compares a trivial burn to counting a billion, explaining the French million notation. If counting one second per dollar from a million dollars would take 35 days at eight hours daily, counting a thousand such piles would take about 100 years.
A collage of old advertisements and quotes including Castoria claims its safe use for infants, Allen's Foot-Ease touts comfort and shoe ease, a marriage sentiment from Atchison, a fly killer pitch, Puck style business line, Sore Eyes eye balm 5c, and a Fronde quote about revenge.
A dialogue shows Hankinson praising a parrot as highly intelligent while Laura critiques its mimicry. The tale shifts to a humorous remark about another parrot and a doctor in Shanghai joking that a-fattening patient should exercise by polishing the physician’s floors, a gag about vanity and treatment.
A dated advertisement urges house owners to demand pure White Lead and pure Linseed Oil for paint and to test bids against National Lead Company standards. It warns against adulterated white lead and offers a blowpipe testing outfit by mail from National Lead Company of New York.
An article explains a modern method where platforms swing from steel girders for 10 to 60 story buildings. Bricklayers work on suspended platforms and the scaffold rises with construction progress.
Mercury containing salves harm mucous surfaces and time sense. use only prescribed remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co Toledo claims no mercury and is taken internally. 75c per bottle. Other products advertised include Garfield Digestive Tablets and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. numerous misstatements and quotes appear alongside medical claims.
An Ethical remedy praised by physicians and the Well-Informed of the World is Syrup of Fig and Elixir of Senna. The California Fig Syrup Co. manufactures the genuine product, available from leading druggists for wholesome family laxative use.
Peruna is portrayed as both a tonic and a catarrh remedy. The text argues catarrh needs a specific mucous-m membrane action plus overall nervous-system tonicity, citing hydrastis canadensis and blends with cubebs copaiba collinsonia canadensis and cedron seed as a potent combination marketed by the Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company of Columbus Ohio.
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