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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1908
Page
8
B F Crocker Esq aged 84 and longtime Justice of the Peace at Martinsburg Iowa reports severe sciatic rheumatism in his left arm and right hip and says three bottles of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm did him a lot of good. For sale by City DrugStore.
Mr D N Walker editor of the Enterprise Louisa Virginia reports applying Bucklen’s Arnica Salve to a nail wound in his foot. He notes no inflammation and rapid healing. Sold at J B Tillett’s druggist.
For sale is choice Timothy hay stored in a barn. Inquiries directed to three miles south of town of Thomas Hubbard or to Mr. Will. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup sold by Blue Front Drug Store. The product acts gently on the bowels and relieves inflammation.
Card thanks neighbors and friends who assisted during the illness and death of husband and brother. Mrs Edna Scott Wa Scott and family express gratitude for support.
When a man has stomach trouble he may be eating too much or using unsuitable foods or his bowels are constipated. Take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to regulate bowels and improve digestion. Free samples available. Sold by City Drug Store.
A brief notice expresses gratitude from Mr and Mrs A Hippert and Ida for support after the death of their daughter Hazel. The item also promotes Kodol, a vegetable acid digestive product, claiming each dose digests over 3000 grains of food and is sold by Blue Front Drug Store.
J. R. Hayworth & Co. advertises three bronze gobblers for sale and calls for plenty of chickens for shipment. Kodol, the well known stomach remedy, is available today, with Blue distributing locally.
Seed corn for sale including several bushels of 1906 Early Yellow seed corn at 1.25 dollars per bushel. Seller Harry Hubbard reachable by phone D 12. Also check Jentz's 25 cent bargain counter for deals.
The I. W. Boltz Breeding Barn opens for the season offering four high bred draft stallions. Service prices match last year. After a highly successful previous season the horses are in prime condition and the farm expects a higher foal success rate this year.
Charles Sumner Lobingier notes that China preserves a vast twenty four volume code dating back two centuries, built from imperial decrees and precedents. He contrasts its ethics and etiquette scope with Western law and highlights Confucian precedent guiding disputes through searchers.
An article notes the unique Four Corners point where Colorado Utah New Mexico and Arizona meet. The government surveyors placed a stone atop a Carriso mountains spur near Mangos Colorado. The area was once cliff dwelling country but now is sparsely inhabited with the boundary shaft destroyed years earlier and replaced in 1904.
The left ventricle expels about four ounces of blood per beat, generating roughly two and a quarter foot pounds of work. With about seventy five contractions per minute, the total daily effort equals lifting around 120 tons one foot high, when including the right ventricle’s one third share.
A witty exchange between Smith and Jones in London Tatler features rapid tongue twisters. Smith challenges Jones to repeat a phrase quickly, prompting Jones to struggle with the line What am I doing. What am I doing? in quick succession.
A dialog in London Punch features Vicar-John debating use of strong language. The vicar instructs John to visit the plumber and settle the bill, urging a casual tone as if addressing his own financial matter.
A woman fell on an orange peel on School Street prompting comments in several writing styles. The incident left her with a fractured limb and a long recovery while readers note the danger of discarded fruit at public walkways.
The piece recounts medieval tales linking English Kent residents to cursed horse tails. It notes variations by John Bale and Polydorus, including Becket’s curse for beheading Tomas Becket’s horse tail and later generations bearing tails, with differing locales and causes.
In a Machrihamish foursome a Scotchman with optimism quips It might have been waak when facing a tough bunker His irritated partner tries to rile Macnab who replies It might have been waur How waur asks the English man It might have been true I might have been there The Scotchman finishes one up according to the London Globe
Reading on Alaska’s size states it covers 579000 square miles, including 550000 mainland and 29000 offshore islands. It equals one fifth of the continental United States and surpasses several states and European nations in area.
The New York Tribune explains a Philadelphia invention in which three mirrors set in a lintel window reveal people at the front door and street activity without opening the window. The device aids housekeepers by spotting callers from the second floor, a common feature in the city’s row houses.
Mrs Chugwater asks Josiah to pause reading as a playful lightning riddle circulates. He ponders whether east to west versus west to east bolts would differ in traveling around the globe, jokingly calling Samantha a lightning calculator as the Paper resumes.
A cigar store man notes a global and local habit of chewing items beyond tobacco. He mentions betel in the Far East, coffee beans, tea, oats and hay for horses, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and even thread for seamstresses, with warnings on nerve and digestion effects.
The plant Phytelephas macrocarpa, native to South America along the Magdalena in Colombia, yields a vegetable ivory. It is stemless and palmlike with twelve to twenty long leaves. Its fruit forms a six to seven section globe in a woody shell, weighing twenty to twenty-five pounds per head, containing milky fluid when young that hardens into ivory substitute.
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