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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1907
Page
16
The famed Santa Rosa luthier Burbank argues stimulants harm focus and precision in delicate budding tasks. In a New York Times interview he notes 20 workers failing when using tobacco or alcohol, with smoking linked to impaired nerve concentration and early firing of inept staff.
The Arena argues that unemployment and poor economic conditions drive laborers to drink. It asserts most drunks are victims of social factors rather than heredity, with poverty often resulting from but sometimes causing habitual drunkenness.
A New York State Supreme Court justice recalls during practice seven years ago nine office boys fired for stealing postage stamps to buy cigarettes. He notes the pattern showed a link between theft and cigarettes as the motive in each case.
An Oklahoma saloon near the Indian Territory line has four years of violence including ten murders and sixteen assaults with intent to kill. One case on the commissioner's docket concerns illegal whisky introduction into Indian territory.
Theodore Roosevelt argued that the liquor trade is not like other businesses and tends to foster crime and social decay, demeaning both the body social and the body politic in a magazine article from years past.
A Windsor Canada letter to Rev. W F Parker describes George Stanley alias Kavanagh awaiting execution. He writes I am a poor unfortunate sinner whom drink has ruined on the Monday before death calmling out.
Quote from Farm Journal condemns spending dollars on alcohol as a foolish act. Warns that only lasting results are ruined health lost friends and wasted hours days and nights. Reflects temperance sentiment in a dated voice.
A boy finds stealing easier after becoming dependent on cigarette smoking. The report discusses how the habit fosters petty crime and shapes youth behavior in a cigarette dominated era.
A short aphorism notes that wisdom should not be stored in alcohol, suggesting caution about preserving knowledge in drink. The fragment presents a moral about temperance and clear thinking.
An advertisement promotes Buckien Arnica Salve claiming it heals burns scalds cuts wounds ulcers and piles. The copy asserts universal cure regardless of age and guarantees the product from Drefer & Bro. druggists at 25 cents.
A Christian Herald reflection discusses Michael Angelo’s Three Fates and how fate is perceived, then shifts to Paul’s Damascus revelation and the call to gospel preaching. It highlights personal vocation, divine vision, and the need for genuine spiritual purpose over mere ambition.
The sermon extols Paul's evangelistic gifts and Massillon's pulpit power, contrasting talents with calling. It urges every listener to consecrate their gifts to Christ, noting that neglecting to preach or share the gospel would be a waste. It likens possible vocations to nursing, singing, praying, or writing, urging dedication.
A teaching piece on Isaac as model of gentleness and faith, tracing his life from Beersheba to Gerar and Beersheba again. It highlights his submission on Mount Moriah, avoidance of polygamy, peaceful wells at Gerar, and the moral value of good temper as a life virtue.
A Moravian elder redirects German cavalry from plundering by guiding them to a barley field that he owns. The tale parallels a deeper message: yielding all to Christ, offering voice and hands for the gospel, echoing Paul’s anguish to preach Jesus.
A local notice warns that neglecting a cold can lead to pneumonia with fatal risk and lasting lung weakness. It promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure that stops coughs, heals and fortifies lungs, and claims La Grippe coughs respond quickly to the remedy. Dreier & Bro.
A reflective essay celebrates cheerful patience as a Christian duty and a force for good. It praises a modest, sunny temperament as a virtue transferable to family and community life, with anecdotes about Miss Blank’s kind voice and a boy named Eddie learning to preach by living kindly every day.
Text fragment notes speaking about preaching to all and receiving kindness. No clear event or individuals identified. Readable portion hints at a social or religious setting but provides no concrete details or names to anchor a story.
Carlisle Center New York resident G B Burhans writes that two bottles of Foley's Kidney Cure cured his severe kidney trouble four years ago. He reports brick dust in urine vanished and no symptoms returned, endorsing the remedy for kidney or bladder trouble. Dreier and Bro.
At sixty six feet depth the Dead Sea water holds double the salinity of surface water, indicating significant vertical salinity gradient. The finding highlights how mineral concentration increases with depth in this body of water.
Richmond citizen A D Williams urges weak lung residents to try Dr King’s New Discovery at Dreifer & Bro’s drug store. The remedy, touted as a global cough and cold cure, claims to treat asthma bronchitis croup whooping cough guinsy hoarseness phthisis and lung hemorrhages while rebuilding lungs. Trial bottle offered free priced 50c and 1.00.
Miss Nettie Metcalf of Warren Ohio is noted as the only American woman to originate a chicken breed, highlighting her historic contribution to poultry.
Article notes high wages lure artisans to Panama Canal work but fears of fevers and malaria deter many. It says experienced workers trust Electric Bitters to stay safe from malarious influence. Claims cure blood poison biliousness weakness and kidney troubles. 60c by Dreler & Bro.
The Blue Mountain Forest association of Newport New Hampshire has shipped a carload of deer to Pennsylvania. All the deer were taken from the association’s park.
Dreier & Bros. promote Orina Laxative Fruit Syrup as a mild effective laxative that cleanses the system, clears pimples and blotches, and suits women and children without gripes. It claims superiority to pills and bitters.
The heaviest cat in Thomaston Conn. is owned by William P. Bart. It recently tipped the scales at twenty four and one half pounds.
The salve that acts like a poultice Pine Salve Carbolized. No other salve so good for cuts burns boils and chapped skin. Ask about it. Price 25 cents. Sold by Rhoads' drug store.
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