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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1912
Page
8
An OCR laden page promotes a patent remedy with dubious claims for piles and teething cures. It mocks social norms with quips about courtship and marriage. The humor piece closes with a cartoon style dialogue about an old funeral and skating jests reflecting daily life.
A humorous social scene unfolds at Mrs. Comes up where a polite gathering erupts into a mock battle described as a teafight not a quarrel. Myra reveals Joe Nevins has dated for about 18 years, while talk of a possible marriage lingers amid sly hostess glances and a joke about a grass widow motto.
A murder jury, led by C. M. Thurnauer, failed to reach a verdict after hours of deliberation with eleven jurors agreeing. The twelfth held out, prompting a court officer to joke about twelve suppers. Thurnauer retorted, requesting eleven suppers and one feed of hay for the holdout.
A Corona fur venture to breed cats for skins faces opposition from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and raises questions about humane cruelty. Henry Bergh warns killing cats for fur would be unjustified, while furrier I Freundlich expects a strong market. A related note reports doctors grafted a severed nose back onto Michael Bello after a razor fight in Albany.
Prof. George P. Gordon of the University of Pennsylvania museum announces receipt of three 200 year old Maori heads from London agents. The tattooed faces, preserved by smoking, show full features with closed eyes, hair intact, and intricate life marks. Maoris uniquely kept heads among Polynesians. few others, like Borneo, preserve heads.
In New York the former Miss Ola Humphrey, now Princess Hassan, recounts her marriage to Prince Hassan and urges American women not to wed into Oriental families. She describes her failed romance, independence, and belief that East–West unions are fraught with misunderstanding, advising American girls to avoid such marriages. She arrives from London to briefly stay at the Knickerbocker before joining her mother in Oakland.
Louis Stoffregen an 80 year old Pottsville resident was found frozen to death on a mountain three miles from town after his clothing snagged on barbed wire. He had left home for a walk in the afternoon and apparently climbed the mountain before being swept by wind and fatigue. State police aided a search of hundreds of friends who scoured the valley below until the body was recovered.
A Wisconsin woman earned a Canadian Government certificate and bought a reduced fare ticket to Edmonton Alberta where friends hosted her. She later married a local farmer, plans to homestead in Pembina, and notes abundant wild fruit, a thriving farm, dairy cream, and thriving settlement life in Alberta. Government letters praising the colony circulate through its agents.
The 1911 year saw open-air schools for anemic and tuberculous children post the largest percentage rise among anti tuberculosis efforts. From 29 schools on January 1, 1911 to 62 new or existing openings by January 1, 1912, marking a 214 percent increase and cumulative expansion since January 1, 1907.
An old advertisement touts Hamlins Wizard Oil as recommended by physicians and used in hospitals. It urges readers to keep a bottle at home and promotes a laxative variant under the signature of H W Grove. The message mixes political bias with holiday claims and odd notes about Bromine Quinine and a teaser about a Pittsburg millionaire.
Ottumwa Iowa reports a woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relieving years of female troubles and pains after trying multiple doctors The advertisement urges others to seek advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co offering confidential responses from a female staff member in Lynn Massachusetts
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