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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1915
Page
10
Fragmented OCR-like text describes portalled jails used in the Philippine Islands with remarks on their utilitarian role, architectural notes, and social commentary. Contains garbled lines about coalitions, governance, and various unrelated anecdotes, ending with advertisements for coffee and moral reflections.
President urges larger army and navy and trained citizenry as essential defense. He outlines plans for expanding the regular forces, coast artillery, engineers, infantry, artillery, and support units, plus a volunteer naval and merchant fleet program to safeguard independence and hemispheric security. He calls for funding by modest internal taxes and a nationwide mobilization mindset.
A quirky column notes Mrs Jingle and Mr Jingle commenting on Susan Spriggs’s marriage and others. It wittily suggests jealousy and judgment in small town life, with flippant remarks about dressmaking and social circles, in a light moralistic tone.
Postscript notes a prohibition on importing certain elts claimed to have therapeutic electric or magnetic effects. It mentions a U S standards bureau device for making color tests of cottonseed oil, Argentine pulp from native pine, and experiments on acetyre eight boosting goat growth. Water power in Switzerland powers towns with little coal, a convertible hand bag for tourists, a child’s swing with back chair grips, new furniture casters, France numbering houses to avoid bad luck, a German nitroglycerin factory wired for lightning protection, and inventive shaving implements. A French oil engine claims high efficiency. A humorous closing exchange about cigars ends the segment.
A collage of observations and curiosities: prison costs in England, a motto of the Royal Agricultural Society, medieval serial navigation research, butter purity laws in Venezuela, Scottish waterfalls, Arden Delaware school habits, Marius Poincaré's antique furniture library valued at 350000 with seven thousand books, France invents quick release footwear for rail workers, a Yorkshire-born ancestor recalled Flodden, a century-old swimmer, new wood gullible pencils in East Africa, a pawn broker fortune and estate-location chatter, and assorted street dialogues about chances and homely women.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Pierce's Pellets and medicinal claims. The text references liver, steamers, and a liquor context, with disjoint phrases about health and “euthartic” effects. No clear event or persons emerge.
A historical note on uric acid in the blood and its health effects. It highlights Dr Pierce’s Anuric as a claimed remedy to eliminate uric acid and cites the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo for pamphlets and a package. It also praises Dr Pierce’s reputation and mentions other products.
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