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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1908
Page
2
A promotional note touts Syrup of Figs and Tlixir of Senna as a leading laxative safe for personal and family use. It claims gentle cleansing of internal organs without debilitating after effects and urges purchase of the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product from major druggists.
On the twenty fifth anniversary of Richard Wagner’s death German papers feature many stories about him. A Vienna paper cites a tale that Jean Paul wrote a short introduction for CG L A Hoffman’s work in 1818. The anecdote says Jean Paul quipped about Hoffman’s music and poetry as a rare blend. The intro is said to have been written in Beyreuth on November 24 1818, the year of Wagner’s birth.
The article recalls that naval uniforms worldwide are navy blue, tracing the color to British naval tradition. It notes a 1747 decision moment sparked by a riding habit seen on the Duchess of Bedford, which convinced the King to adopt blue with gold lace, shaping a global maritime standard.
A young man debated tipping norms and gave generously at a supper, ensuring no one was overlooked. After a revolver door swing, a woman asked if the doorman received anything, noting he let them exit, implying he deserved the most.
Professor Rutherford notes alpha particles travel roughly three inches with an average speed near 6000 metres per second. The path shows violent action breaking about 100000 molecules, generating heat and forming positively and negatively charged ions in the process.
Mexico dispatch reports Salina Cruz to deport 600 Chinese arrivals. Other notes include Choluteca retaken by Honduran troops ending the revolution, Ireland's two-university bill passing in Commons, and Pope Pius X issuing sweeping church reforms.船
Dr. A Knopf, a New York pathologist, challenged the shade theory for consumptives at the National Association meet in Chicago. He cited a survey of fifty physicians showing brunettes are not at a disadvantage to blondes in TB, and argued sunlight and sun baths can aid certain patients in temperate zones. He noted red-haired Venetians may be more susceptible, and Scandinavian blond immigrants might resist less than native Americans in crowded cities.
A roundup of peculiar notes includes a kitten doubling its weight in nine days and a baby in 180 days, a weatherproof paper church in Paris, and hair growing in two directions. It mentions Pompeii’s slow uncovering to 1970, a dog as property but cats lacking value in a Massachusetts ruling, and Arabic-French schooling in Algiers and Tunis. Also cited are a banana export figure, a boy’s death cause, a Massachusetts liquor license record, a giant elm stump, and Turner bequests valued at millions with thousands of works.
At the Birmingham Alabama Confederate reunion the battle flag is restored to its historically correct square shape. The organizing committee warned attendees to beware of oblong flags and plans a vivid display of waving flags and bunting in the city.
New York reports from R G Dui Co indicate moderate net weekly gains in trade with irregular progress. Southwest leads, coast lagging. some industries rise steadily while others vary. Overall business volume is higher than last year, though unemployment persists and plant resumptions continue at partial capacity.
The Detroit Free Press recounts a North Woodward avenue family hosting novelist Robert Barr as Hebe. The hostess remained to instruct the maid while men mused on Barr's fame and a maid hoped she might one day serve Shakespeare. The New York Times section offers tips to loosen stubborn bottle stoppers with heat and tapping.
Professor Brandle of the University of Berlin argues Americans excel in English while Brits lag, attributing it to Britain’s schooling bias toward dead languages over living ones.
A woman from Evanston Illinois recounts lasting fatigue and sleep loss that improved after six bottles of Peruna. She credits the tonic with restoring her appetite energy and strength after a run down condition.
A critique of contemporary novels that echo the memory of a mechanical doll. The text notes the cold clockwork shiver in their poses and postures, and their movement appears driven by the coin of reader investment, ending as the payoff ends.
Mrs Harman Smith of 901 Broad Street Athens Georgia recounts kidney disease progressing to dropsy and collapse before Dean's Kidney Pills saved her. She describes severe back pain bearing down sensations and swollen limbs, noting doctors offered no help and praising the remedy sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
An Irish jury story recounts a member who insisted on staying to vote. After hours, the 11 to 1 acquittal split when the stubborn juror slept, and a hollow cane revealed whisky inside. He finally declared he was changing his mind.
Mrs Lily Hedge of Camberwell Green Hageland describes a long battle with eczema in her son Owen from infancy to age fifteen. After numerous hospitalizations and doctors declaring hopeless, a six month use of Cuticura Remedies led to a complete cure. Letter dated January 12, 1907.
In Cleveland four teams of 16 children each produced two Hitle girls with the only perfect scores. A Paris recital of 40 child pianists awarded a prize to a little girl. A New Jersey teachers inquiry found more boys than girls behind grade in 25 of 32 cities and in physical tests, except nearsightedness, more girls. in mental defectiveness more boys were afflicted.
A Washington Star exchange records Prohibitionists debating a campaign nickname for their leader. One quotes a traditional headline style, the other suggests "the cheerless leader" as an ironic tag for the head of the ticket.
The Des Moines Register notes oranges as a premier medicinal fruit, rich in organic salts and minerals. Fresh juice is praised for scrofula, rickets, blood diseases, rheumatism, gout, and aiding consumption and anemia, with lemons highlighted for magnesium lime and acidity.
Emory, a timberman ten miles south of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, fired all bullets in a squirrel rifle but failed to fell the huge catamount until he used his saved watch chain as ammunition. He reloaded with powder from a horn flask and killed the animal just as it lunged, ending a near fatal encounter reported by the Kansas City Journal.
Mining experts estimate remaining gold along the Rand reef in the Transvaal is worth about five billion dollars. The claim underscores vast remaining riches and a long pattern of lucrative deposits in the region.
Norristown reader TenaV. ITtenry writes Mrs Pinkham that doctors warned surgery for female troubles, but after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she improved after a first bottle and is now cured, urging others with similar issues to try it.
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