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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1907
Page
3
Florida passes a law prohibiting sponge diving as sponge beds suffer injury. The measure targets protecting marine resources and preventing further reef damage while outlining enforcement and penalties.
An overview of fireless cookers and historic methods used by German and North American guides. Describes stone ovens, moss coverings, and improvised cooking setups on portages, with long cooking times and secrecy around herbal and technique secrets kept within families and guiding lines.
In Quimper Brittany last week Le Saux and his wife welcomed a boy. The father sold the infant for £8 to Mme Bonan wife of the local butcher who then passed the child as her own. Bonan registered the birth, Le Saux later registered his own child. Legally the infant bears claims of two families and two mothers.
A traveling salesman wagers he has the hardest name in the country, challenging an old farmer who boasts a rival name, Stone, in a rustic tavern scene. The man bets ten dollars that his surname outdoes Harder in toughness. The farmer accepts, game to prove his own name’s edge.
Mrs De Styre notes her husband is a pessimist while Mrs Malaprop jokes he is an on ulist in a playful exchange sourced to the Syracuse Herald.
The Washington Star and New Orleans Picayune report on various topics. Counterfeiting using crystal processes in France is noted. A French physician discusses tuberculous forms and a method for returning nitrogen to soil via decaying matter and electric phenomena.
A letter from Harold Bolee praises faster Berlin Rohrpost service and argues for international talks on progress. He recounts Hungary's simple registered mail system and German money orders. Separately, the Trenton Clean City club paid boys 26 cents per hundred for old tin cans, collecting 78 000 cans from 130 boys for nearly $200, amid crowds and observers.
Monks at the Grand St Bernard hospice report this winter the harshest in years. In five months over 1200 stormbound travellers, mainly Italian workers and three British tourists, were sheltered there. Monks and their dogs were repeatedly roused at night to aid travellers lost on the mountainside.
A child repeats sugar terms on a trip to a Chicago store to request five pounds of paralyzed sugar. The item shifts to a note on gender separation in Argentina where men avoid introducing friends to sisters and marriages of young girls to older boys are common.
Weather remains adverse for retail trade at most points with only bargain sales stimulating activity. Fall distribution looks brighter on better crop reports as manufacturers receive orders for next season. Steel and coke output rise. primary cotton foods and woollen goods markets show limited activity. leather stocks accumulate while New England footwear trade lingers awaiting improved orders.
Quotations cover Dashces and crude listings with scattered city names and prices. Several entries show misreadings like old Tarent Malds and South Linsie with small decimal values and mis-typed locations. Overall the fragment lists markets and price indicators without coherent structure or dates.
Ex President of Cuba Bartolomeo Miso, who led the Cuban republic during the ten years war and ran for the presidency against Tomas Estrada Palma in 1902, died at his home in Manzanillo.
A dated folk remedy suggests cooking cabbage or similar foods to create a bad odor then using a shovel of dead cows, coffee and smoke with closed windows. After a short time open windows to clear the smoke, which allegedly destroys the odor and removes algae buildup from lace curtains and draperies.
Mrs Sadie Abbott praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for monthly pain fatigue and weakened health. Testimonies claim relief from hysteria and irregular cycles. Mrs Pree McKitriele also reports improved strength and ability to work. The ad invites women to contact Lynn Massachusetts for free advice and cures.
A Sothebys London sale drew high bids for rare works. A first folio Shakespeare sold for 12000 dollars, first edition Parke and Lancaster for 9650, Arden of Faversham 6050, King Lear 1250, Merchant of Venice 2550, Sir Walter Scott History of Scotland manuscript 2550, and a third folio Shakespeare set a record at 7759 dollars.
A 1905 testimonial claims Cuticura Remedies cured severe facial eczema after two doctors failed. The ad lauds Cure-all medicines from Dr. Pierce and mentions a French thermometer predicting frost, native American plants, and a free book of medical extracts. It asserts safety, no habit forming ingredients, and lists addresses for requests.
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