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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1912
Page
7
A batch of agricultural property ads across several states listing farm sizes from 16 to 370 acres, locations in Indiana Illinois Michigan and Oklahoma, with crops including wheat and alfalfa, plus improvements such as barns orchards and outbuildings. Many ads note sacrifice or bargain terms and provide respondent box numbers in Chicago.
In New Lisbon New Jersey Asa Schooley an aged hermit and descendant of Burlington county's old families lies ill in a county asylum as court authority orders his estate turned to cash. Neighbors recall a hidden fortune of old coins antique plate and chinaware scattered through his decaying farmhouse. The case follows his brother Joseph's death and his decades isolation as investigators seek heirs and settle estate duties.
In Lenox Massachusetts Dr William Gilman Thompson watches a wild deer enter Halidon hall gardens on the Stockbridge hillside nibbling lettuce before fleeing. Deer have frequented the estate all season with the farmer and others driving them away. Thompson forbids shooting though legal. Halidon hall lies about a mile and a half from Stockbridge Center. A portion of the estate is a mountain forest. Moose also sighted near October Mountain may be at large near the town of Washington.
Harry Stein sixteen of Jenkintown Pa stood before Judge E A Higbee in Atlantic City juvenile court charged with stealing seven dollars from William Shayne of Philadelphia. Shayne had given aid to Stein before Stein vanished with the money. The judge offered leniency if Stein repaid the funds and revealed his father but Stein refused. He was sentenced to six years in the Jamestown reformatory.
A live man was bound to a wheelbarrow with a sailor’s scarf and belt and hurled from the pier into the sea at Sa vona. Bathers found the body and barrow at twenty feet depth. police have yet to identify the victim or the killers.
Paris reports a Chronique Medicale correspondent describes a Siamese execution as an elaborate process. The inmate is awakened at dawn and led in chains to a temple surrounded by candles. He is urged to detach from worldly concerns and is served an unusually good meal before the end.
Gypsy the French poodle stood guard outside Northwest General Hospital for four weeks thinking Oswald Saeber, the young master, remained there.
German researcher Dr. W. Peters analyzes state primary school records in Germany and Austria to compare three generations. Results show strong parent child links in average performance, with 76 percent of offspring matching parental records when both parents are above average, and 38 percent succeeding when both are below. Mothers’ records align more with children, and paternal advantage shifts favor toward the male parent when the father outperforms the mother. Reading and writing marks track parental performance closely, arithmetic less, grammar less, and scripture least of all.
In Budapest a German singer named Erdos, while performing in the city, telegraphed his fiancée in Frankfurt to join him. She traveled at once and they wed in a hospital ward shortly before his death an hour later.
Kate notes the sense of the ridiculous in Sue the foxy elf while Grace adds a wry remark about self appreciation. The dialogue hints at a playful, theatrical mood and characters named Kate Grace Sue.
Wanted Minute Evidence, Orfla, the celebrated doctor, was asked as an expert whether he could state the arsenic quantity to kill a fly. He replied that he must know the fly’s age, sex, temperament, and life habits before answering.
A Cuticura treatment claims to transform red rough hands to velvety white in one night. Directions advise soaking in hot water with Cuticura Soap, drying, applying Cuticura Ointment, and wearing loose gloves. The ad touts the products as pure gentle emollients sold worldwide with a free sample offer.
A patent remedy advertises relief for skin and mucous membrane conditions. The superior Pile Cure is sold in 25 and 50 cent sizes by druggists, with free samples available upon writing to J W Cole & Co in Black River Falls Wisconsin.
A quirky mock ad quips about marital rods and family jars in a Red Cross Ball Blue pitch praising value. It also touts Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with claims of pain relief and wind colic at 25 cents a bottle, ending with a wry line about a woman crying over inability to laugh.
Unionville Massachusetts resident Edgar A Norris reports a summer ivy poison relief after using Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap. He praises rapid itching relief and healing, noting improved sleep and recovery after trying other remedies. Free samples offered by Resinol Chem Co, Baltimore Maryland.
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