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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
6
Kingston residents share holiday visits with relatives and friends across Greensburg Sandusky Brookville Connersville Kokomo Newport and Gaynorsville. Local families report births and gatherings as Charles Throp suffers pleurisy and Lorenzo Wolford welcomes a baby girl December 19.
The ad promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver tablets as invigorating to digestion aiding stomach and liver function. It claims better appetite weight gain endurance and a clear head with sample offers and a 25 cent price at Batterton's drug store.
Westport residents share holiday visits with relatives in Indianapolis and Taylorsville. church groups report gifts, cards, and celebration including Sunday school notes, a rocking chair presented to Pastor Hester, and students gifting furniture to teachers. A sunny Stanford University card reflects Christmas abroad and illness concerns send thoughts to Elmer Stewart and family as prayer meetings proceed in local Methodist notes.
Mechanicsburg residents exchange holiday wishes and travel between Indianapolis Greensburg Read ing Ohio and Newpoint for family visits. Spencer Clemons returned home from Indianapolis Thursday while Granville Martin and wife visited Henry Swango and family. Rosa Martin visited friends in Greensburg midweek and Holman Glidewell and wife spent Sunday with his mother Catherine Glidewell. Charley Carr Matthew Collins and George Deilks cut wood for Frank Johnston. John H Jackson and son Charles visited Granville Martin and family earlier in the week. Clint Bales and family visited Grant Johnston and family of Read ing Ohio. Mrs Granville Martin and Rosa attended the Rebekah lodge at Newpoint Saturday evening.
An old health advertisement warns against asking others for remedies for coughs and colds and promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure for coughs colds and pneumonia prevention. It emphasizes the genuine product in a yellow package and warns against substitutes. J. H. Batterton. ml
Miss Maude Jones is at home while Ralph Throp returns from Purdue and Prosser Clark visits from Indianapolis for the holidays. The Masons hold their annual banquet tonight and the M E Sunday school shared a cantata Wednesday. Congregational meeting planned for Friday at Spring Hill church. Mrs. James Halsey dined with her mother Mrs. She wood. Mrs. Myrtle Folks and daughter of Connersville visit D. F. Hite’s. T N Shaw and wife of Sardinia spent Christmas with Dr. Thomas and family. Luther Hamilton received gold rimmed spectacles from the Sunday school as a Christmas gift.
The piece contrasts London midrange dining with New York and Paris, arguing London offers superior value. It notes half guinea ordinaries and three and six dinners, Soho shortages, and wine at reasonable prices, praising Soho for cheap, hearty meals and bright crowds amid casual queues and hard benches.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. need internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. It is a non quack prescription by leading physicians, with tonics and blood purifiers. Testimonials available. Toledo firm F. J. Cheney & Co. sells 75-cent cure. Also Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A short passage discusses a cow learning to open a gate to reach corn and compares animal behavior to human reasoning. John Burroughs argues animals act by trial and error and association, not deliberate cause and effect, with memory serving as the basic sense-memory mechanism.
A groom testifies under cross examination about a horse’s temper in a legal case. The lawyer probes what the horse would shy at, but the witness gives vague answers until he says the horse would shy at the lawyer. The remark amuses the court and raises questions about the evidence.
The London Standard notes the Middle Ages used fingers and daggers for meals with bread or meat in a napkin. By 1608 forks entered Britain via Venetian traveler Thomas Corgate, replacing the dagger for cutting, while each person carried an eating knife to social dinners.
A witty exchange between a young woman and a cynic frames marriage as an option. He jokes that one can buy a parrot for 10 shillings rather than marry, while she sighs that women face a disadvantage and notes a bear costs at least £30.
New York drama review highlights The Lancers at Daly's with Cecilia Loftus and Lawrance D'Orsay praised for star power but faulted by a weak script. Ermete Novelli shines again at the Lyric in Othello and Papa Le Bonnard with strong Iago work. Tom Jones at the Astor earns praise for faithful English melody and Emma Wellman leads Peaceful Valley touring cast.
The Nassau tale explains Hog Island name via a bathing fee and fruit eating custom. A visitor eats dozens of oranges, questions value, and the proprietor quips you found Hog Island as the place. The anecdote circulates in guidebooks and among travelers returning by steamer.
Rudyard Kipling on tour in Canada clashed with a hotel landlord. Before leaving he praised none, and the bill added a charge reading to impudence, three dollars, a jab at the author in a sharp hotel dispute.
The piece notes that coin flips decide many outcomes from prize fights to football game ends, arguing the president did not invent this practice and attributing emphasis to Willie West.
Notice to Our Customers states Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and lung troubles is unaffected by the national pure food and drug law as it contains no opiates or harmful drugs and is recommended for children and adults by J. H. Batterton.
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