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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1908
Page
8
The Well-informed favor a simple pleasant laxative made from Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. California Fig Syrup Co promotes its ethical, known-value product as gentle yet prompt and acceptable to physicians. Buy the genuine manufactured by California Fig Syrup Co, sold by leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
A Norfolk style classified ad promises a deafness and catarrh cure from REA CO Minneapolis. The piece then shifts to Kentucky Tobacco Districts describing regional leaf varieties including Black Patch burley and its role in chewing tobacco flavors. It notes gigantic lemons found in Mexico and an expedition from Boston to explore the Amazon basin near the southern watershed.
W. W. Hiiditch of the Sheffield Scientific School reports laboratory tests show bacteria on paper money run into thousands per note but are not typically infectious or virulent.
Mme. Schumann Heink sails for Europe to begin a yearlong concert tour. Thirty five entries were received for the national women's golf championship. The Rainy Daisies are told by Mme. Klenner that tight corsets spoil the voice. Suffragettes who tried to register in New York City faced police reserve threats. Mary R. Sanford, from wealthy New York and New Haven families, becomes a Socialist. Ministers and women church-goers disapprove of a Brooklyn pastor’s order that women remove hats in church. Protest follows the relocation of the Professional Woman's League from its fine New York club-house to modest hotel quarters. Mme. Curie, who helped her husband discover radium, elected a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Mrs. Carl Muck, wife of Boston Symphony director, loves America and does not wish to return to Berlin. Milos Gaussel, M D, appointed director of a Montpelier University clinic, first such post for a woman. Anna Morgan, J. P. Morgan’s daughter, valued at $100,000,000, driven from Berlin while studying politico-social conditions. Italy's king approves the marriage of the Duke of the Abruzzi and Milas Katherine Hikins.
A Philadelphia Record piece on a child’s banty hen and chicks cared for by Mary, plus a Snow Maiden tale from the Brooklyn Eagle about Laura’s kindness to a poor girl, Virginia. Includes other brief European style vignettes and a toy flying machine note.
Marjorie nine finally earns a dollar promise after illness delays. Her father set a hundred in any thing as reward, and she hoped to claim it despite illness. The tale appears alongside notes on popular boys and the birds value, urging kindness, honesty, and respect for nature.
T Powell, fruit grower, details effects of heavy manuring on a Seckat pear tree. A Seckat pear grown with Miantire manure bore unusually large fruit, but judges at the exhibition labeled them as Sheldons, saying no Seckors could reach such size.
A compact evergreen shrub compares to azaleas and rhododendrons for hardy cultivation. It thrives under similar conditions and yields fragrant pink flowers in spring and again in September though less abundantly. Indianapolis News
A short Indiana Farmer note advises girls anxious for spending money to cultivate horseradish. Dig up any few hills when the nose is out of the ground, harvest the root and cut off coarse tops and small roots.
Experienced orchardists deem wood ashes and bonemeal the ideal fertilizer for apple trees. Use 200 to 300 pounds of bonemeal per ton of ashes for a balanced, economical tree feeding.
Manure adds humus and improves soil texture greatly, loosening compact soil and increasing friability and moisture retention. Experiments at Wisconsin show manure raises water storage in upper soil layers and deepens soil warmth, aiding distribution of plant nutrients and humate formation to make minerals more available.
The article explains how peas beans clover and alfalfa host bacteria that fix free nitrogen from air into soil. Different legumes require specific bacteria and inoculation methods include soil transfer crop rotation and treating seeds with cultures. Nodules on roots indicate successful inoculation and soil enrichment.
A juror refused to believe the prosecuting witness under oath claiming he was a drunkard. The juror was excused, the prisoner remanded for a new trial, and lawyers seek dismissal arguing double jeopardy. The piece questions juror intelligence and the effect on justice.
Mrs Anney McElroy Brett described as the telephone queen of the Southwest. She serves as president of the Southern Independent Telephone and Telegraph Company and as president and general manager of the Brett Construction Telephone and Telegraph Company. Her firms, representing substantial value, were organized without initial capital.
A young woman afflicted with scabies and related ailments arrived at our city mission in dire physical condition. After seven weeks with little progress, Cuticura remedies were used and within five weeks she recovered enough to seek work, now healthy. Laura Jana Dates, 86 Fifth Ave, New York, N Y, March 11, 1907.
Japan has electric tramways in Yokonama and Tokio with skilled Japanese railway engineers. Shanghai recently completed a fine tram system and Hongkong has operated street railways for years with good results. Other Chinese and Japanese cities are expected to follow these examples.
A camp report from Greenwood shows a crew of thirty five woodsmen with daily rations of 300 large biscuits, 150 doughnuts, thirty six pies, six quarts of dry beans with vegetables. A large beer is consumed every five days.
The North Dakota will represent an initial outlay of 10 million dollars. About one million will be spent on fox gun expenses. Ten 12 inch guns cost 65000 each and fourteen 5 inch guns cost 10000 each. The main battery includes 12 rapid fire guns and minor placements.
A late Dr Haig Brown quotes a certificate claimed to say a boy's character was generally good. He explains generally means not particularly. The exchange involves the master of Charterhouse Higbrathar in law Dr Porter of Peterhouse and another English serial writing to him.
The clove tree flourishes best on the Azanzthir and Pemba islands where cloves are the principal export. Wie ands grow and export the spice alongside related products, forming the core of the region’s trade.
An antiquated ad note touts Mia Winslow's soothing syrup for teething infants. It claims pain relief and wind colic cure in a 25 cent bottle, with sly commentary on a farmer’s worries and a Providence Tribune reference.
A new instrument attaches to a regular typewriter to send and receive telegraph messages without errors. The device records the exact message written, functioning like a combined sending and receiving telegraph panel. No human error in reception.
The ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive remedy for catarrh and claims it cures constitutional disease by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. A $1000 reward is offered for any case it fails to cure, with testimonials available. Also promotes Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
The Cleveland Leader notes Cuba’s orange harvest now estimated at half a million crates the largest on record. It recalls past imports from Portugal and California shrinking over three seasons as local cultivation grows, with American firms and the Bank of England cited in broader economic context.
Mrs A J Davis of Murray Kentucky credits Deani Kidney Pills with ending her kidney trouble after three weeks. She describes spells that nearly felled her, sharp back pains and crippling attacks, which vanished soon after starting the pills. Sold by all dealers for 0 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Fragmentary text discusses innate savagery in human nature and a dispute over weaponized use of machinery. Limited readable nouns suggest a focus on inheritance, practicality, and potential conflicts without clear events or identities.
In Lynn Massachusetts the Pinkham Laboratory displays over a million letters from women claiming cure by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It is described as safe made from roots and herbs without drugs and said to save some from surgical operations by restoring the feminine organism to health.
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