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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1907
Page
7
Rural folks plan a rain prayer day while Uncle Ilank Vard objects to any religious populist gathering. Farmer Stebbins asks about attending, but Ilank Vard rejects the meeting as a standpat stance on divine weather.
Hickish dialogue between Hewilgus and Wimmick over hats. Smokers rate Lewis' Single Binder 5¢ cigar as better value than 10¢ brands from Lewis' Peoria factory. A note on Chinese junk bows showing an eye on each side for navigation.
The glycerine in Golden Medical Discovery enhances medicinal roots and aids coughs lung and throat conditions. It acts as a nutritive demulcent antiseptic and antiferment and improves digestion and stomach health, with claims from Dr. Finley E Mingwood. It purifies blood and has no alcohol. free booklet from Dr. R V Pierce.
An eczema case from Brooklyn is claimed cured after Cuticura ointment and remedies. A mother describes twelve years of misery from a red skin spot spreading, with scales and severe itching, until results appeared after using the products. Also noted is a bookstore scene where a fashionably dressed woman seeks a red book.
The quote portrays Charon the boatman of the Styx as Irish in blood due to his habit of shouting Now, then, look alive when sending souls ashore. Puck calls this a near Irish bull reflecting the era's humor and civility limits.
A Cayuga lake tragedy after the steamer Frontenac burned off Union Springs causes eight deaths. Women and children leapt into water as passengers scrambled for safety. rescues include Grace Abel and 12-year-old Frank Alcott who helped his grandmother. Sheriff Genung’s son saved his mother. brave acts contrasted with several who prioritized self preservation.
Senator Edmund W. Pettus died at 86 from an apoplectic stroke suffered at breakfast in Jet Springs North Carolina. The death leaves former Governor Joseph F. Johnson poised to become Senator from Alabama, elected as second alternate and likely confirmed by the Legislature. Pettus, born 1821 in Limestone County, Alabama, served as a Confederate general and U.S. senator since 1896, surviving most Democratic conventions and guiding Alabama delegation. A second item notes a Special American Medical Association committee condemnation of about half US medical schools for weak training and profits over education, urging a four year high school course with extensive science and clinical requirements and hospital internships, plus endowment.
The Department of Agriculture issued and then temporarily withheld rules on benzoate of soda and sulfur fumes as fruit preservatives. A new statement permits common salt, sugar, wood smoke, potable liquor, condiments, and saltpeter pending further investigation.
H. B. Claflin dry goods house released its semi annual report indicating a prosperous first half of the year with sales booked for future delivery higher than ever before and better than the previous year.
The Baltimore American quotes a humorous exchange about a son choosing to practice the unwritten law as a cheaper career path over a traditional law office study, highlighting wit on professional training costs.
Ask your dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet, cures corns bunions swollen sore hot callous aching sweating feet and ingrowing nails. Makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25c. Sample mailed free. Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy N Y.
A 1748 Paris premiere of Voltaire’s Me rope drew wild crowd reactions as spectators urged the author to appear. Voltaire notes the duchess kissed him under force, while contemporary papers discuss the authorial fame and public reception.
A testimonial touts Postum Food Coffee as a cure for headaches nervousness and stomach trouble caused by coffee. The speaker credits giving up coffee and replacing it with Postum for themselves their mother and neighbor who says she can now work sit all day mend and sew without pain. The ad invites readers to look in the package for The Road to Wellville.
A Cleveland Press cartoon caption contrasts a panicked claim that water will sink the nation with a sly remark about the Panama Canal. The exchange mocks industrial captains and their projects while noting a key national enterprise needing water.
The text cites Mrs A Moore of Peterville Missouri praising Doan's Kidney Pills after a year and a half of kidney trouble including backache headaches and fatigue. She says the remedy gave great relief after a few doses and credits the pills with curing her condition. The ad notes the product price and distributor Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. It also briefly mentions the factory effort behind thimbles.
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