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Newspaper
Grand Traverse Herald
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1908
Page
1
The Herald Young Folks Sunshine Club pledges a cheerful outlook and aims to be loving helpful and kind to all living things. Members vow to avoid worry and fret while promoting goodwill and positive conduct.
The article describes a Sunshine President greeting Sunshiners with tips for collecting and pressing autumn leaves and ferns. It covers careful selection, pressing between blotting paper with boards, drying, preserving color with varnish, and potential decorative uses like panels or boxes, plus advice on not rushing the process and keeping specimens in place.
Janet and Jack Bryant play shepherd on a mountain hike near a hotel in the White Mountains. They pretend flocks of rocks and recall their May Day costumes, wander after lunch, get lost at sunset, and are found by Father Max and Dash the bear. Harold Brown dreams of treasure while plowing, learns a lesson about effort, and earns a reward from his father.
Club history includes officers Clara Bates Mabel Bates Williams Irene Pomeroy Shields and September 1908 cradle roll count 335. Poem of steady effort quotes and verses from James Whitcomb Riley reflect a children's club flavor with lines like A spurt may do with the goal in view but steady's the word.
An enduring health ad asserts one in four has a weak heart and urges testing now. It cites symptoms such as breathlessness, palpitations, fainting, and chest or arm pain, promoting Dr Miles Heart Cure with Nervine and promising rapid improvement and a money back guarantee. A testimonial from Mrs Lillie Thomas of Upper Sandusky Ohio endorses the treatment after two years of heart trouble and weight gain.
British traveler discovers a giant leaf named after Queen Victoria in a distant land. The leaf is over five feet in diameter with a four inch rim surrounding it. When the flower opens it is white and then turns pink.
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