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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1909
Page
8
The California Fig Syrup Co touts its exceptional equipment and chemists that yield Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It warns buyers that only the genuine product, with the full company name on the front, delivers benefits and urges returning imitations.
The Baltimore Sun notes a Maryland hen of legendary laying, often producing two eggs daily and occasionally three. If sustained for a year, she would lay about 730 eggs, a feat praised as a patriotic contribution to the nation and worthy of recognition by officials.
Henry Bearle of Crass St Little RockArk recounts twelve months of severe itching and dry scaly skin on ankles feet arms and scalp. After visiting a skin hospital and trying numerous remedies he found relief and full cure after using Cuticura Ointment Soap and Pills. Det Banil 19 1907. Potter Drug & Chem Sole Props Boston Mass.
Brasilian duties on a range of imports are listed with high percent tariffs. Corking items like du ties penknives face 291 percent, screws 224 percent, iron racks 480 percent, iron bits 528 percent, school chalk 662 percent, and key rings 629 percent. American canned vegetables incur 349 percent duties with canned fruits 418 percent, onions 616 percent.
An ad claims Rheumatism doin a Day and Dr Relief for rheumatism offer rapid benefit, with a 75 cent dose for first relief. Separately the Navy contracts a radiotelegraphy plant to be built in Washington to transmit messages across seas within three thousand miles. Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are advertised as a gentle stomach and bowel regulator in candy form.
The Canadian Government will establish a fuel testing plant to study peat as a potential fuel source. Peat is abundant in Ontario and Quebec, and the project aims to find a practical method to use it for energy production.
A London Tit-Bits account details pirates and swindlers on great passenger steamers. It describes cons on transatlantic and South Pacific routes, including an auction sweep, bogus charity collections, fake employment agents, and forged bank notes, all aided by complacent or curious victims. The piece warns travelers to remain vigilant against well dressed, seemingly reputable rogues aboard ships bound for America Australia and the Black Sea.
A late 19th century survey of unusual facts spans agriculture, publishing, sleep, geography, war tech, co operatives, lodging signals, municipal revenue, construction, shipboard design, fruit transport refrigeration, coal jewelry, carved ivory craft, and a historical carnival performer, highlighting global quirks and era specifics. It notes horses in England farms, Moscow pricing, sleep hours, Eddystone Rock lighthouse, paper kettles, Dutch cooperatives, Italy rental signals, Peterborough celery, scaffolding free German concrete work, self leveling ship tables, fruit ship refrigeration with Gogling radiators, a coal brooch versus diamond, an Englishwoman's carved token, and Mile O Reith’s career shift to France.
The article describes cantilever bridge design with anchor arms from river piers and suspended spans bridging the central gap. It notes the Blackwell’s Island bridge as unique for long spans by having cantilever arms meet at the center without a separate suspended span, raising questions about its effectiveness.
The article recalls clergy urging varied donations while praising penny funds. A vicar notes that even a penny can help support a new assistant curate, with parishioners urged to subscribe to a penny fund to cover maintenance costs and ensure the new role.
Household notes describe stovetop cabbage stuffed with tongue and ham, rolled in leaves and dressed, from New York Sun. Also a Harper's Weekly piece touts multiple kitchen scissors including kerosene blade shears for wicks, pineapples, grapes, and fish, promoting practical tools for domestic tasks.
Damaged OCR shows a recipe style entry with multiple items including fried balls sautéed potatoes and a short cake. It lists ingredients such as flour baking powder salt butter sugar bacon potatoes and onions and describes steps like browning, layering bacon over potatoes, and baking until done. The fragment mentions a crust for a "short cake" and references a quick oven bake of twenty to twenty five minutes.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat reports Mars is departing the garth amid continued ignorance among strong mars and engineers about the Martin Ganuls being rock or sea-level types.
An art note reports a dispute over a portrait in the statehouse art gallery and references a telegraph dispatch about painters in Washington. A reply defends the Pierre as the artist. The item appears amid a hazy column of letters, oblique memos, and a kidney pills advertisement carried by the same page.
A long OCR fragment cites a Springfield Republican piece on lawyers and public complain tations, interwoven with references to Paris Harpers Weekly and a broad critique of artificial flowers and social decadiation. It mentions the general movement of Paris and Harpers Weekly, and hints at national concerns and societal decadence through scattered phrases about weddings and observers.
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