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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1912
Page
7
A chaotic scrub of farm sale notices lists numerous holdings across states and provinces. Entries describe tracts from 16 to 1,443 acres with cultivated land, barns, orchards, stock, and machinery, advertising to buyers via Chicago post office boxes and district agents.
A Berlin dispatch warns Europe remains unsettled though no catastrophe has occurred. Russia drives alliances with France apart while the Dar danelles reopen. Italy faces an impasse in the Italo Turkish war with autumn plans possible, and no diplomat has found a solution as Sazanoff stirs Paris.
Rev. John Bentley a frail theologian in Greeley Colorado faced a rattlesnake that joined his small adobe schoolhouse congregation ten miles away. He seized the reptile by the neck, removed it, and killed it. He resumed his sermon and later drew a larger crowd.
Georgetta Burnham of Gallard, Cal United in September last year to Allen P. Burnham, an engraver. She alleges he became churlish and silent for several evenings, refused to come home, vowed no woman would "boss" him, and later deserted her, prompting the divorce petition filed in San Rafael.
Rex a four year veteran of firehouse No 1 died after the new roan horse bolted the engine at an alarm. The bull like hound fell beneath the wheels as the crew rushed to respond. Firemen buried Rex with honors due a hero.
From Laval near Rennes two sisters Clem entine and Fanny Manguy aged 72 and 74 hoarded money while one lay dead seven weeks. A nun visitor was the only contact until a policeman found a putrefying body and $500 in bank notes and gold in the room. The survivor kept the body for burial cost avoidance.
Dr. Melven Dressbach of Cornell reports 27 percent of male students wear glasses and criticizes the practice of forcing freshmen to wear caps without visors as unprotective to eyes from sun exposure.
Fishermen near Port Isabel Texas and the Laguna Madre captured a 12 foot manatee weighing over 3000 pounds after Ramon Rodriguez was knocked unconscious by a flipper blow while attempting to rope the creature. The capture followed a second recent Laguna Madre sighting. Sea devils, giant sea monsters, are noted as common off the Gulf coast.
Mrs. Ethel Plonskey aged 108 was recognized by her nephew Moses Lazarowiczt aged 80 in a New York synagogue. They had not seen each other since leaving Poland forty years ago before reuniting through a familiar face.
Doctors advise singing as lung exercise to aid breathing and prevent lazy breathing. They caution it does not cure tuberculosis or save anyone from consumption, but the deep breath promotes physical well being and helps maintain proper respiration.
Mrs. W. J. Cleland of Kingsley Michigan reports a thirteen month old suffered a spreading sore on the cheek that covered most of one side and reached the nostrils. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment the irritation subsided in days with no scarring and no recurrence. Sample and skin book offered by Cuticura, Boston.
A nostalgic line on daily renewal and sacred love ties with a marketing note claiming Red Cross Ball Blue cleans more clothes than any rival blue product. It emphasizes memory guided devotion and urges choosing Red Cross for household laundry.
A collage of items notes British South African Empire postage needs, an infant syrup advertisement, a proverb about hesitation, calls for blood purity, Garficid Tea claim, a sentimental blessing for animal life, and a reminiscence by Mrs. Story about damp sheets at death with a winding sheet warming remark.
Town firms advertise direct fish sales to small buyers asking for half a dollar per lot with varieties. A user sought two salmon, twelve whiting, twelve fresh herrings, some flounders, and a lobster if available. The next day a follow up offer asked for another dime to forward the fisherman.
An English earl, recently deceased and childless, once hired an army pensioner named McMicken as lodge keeper. Months later McMicken’s wife bore a son. Enraged, the lord scolded him and declared the man’s duty was to open and shut a gate, not to propagate.
A humorous vignette from Metropolitan Magazine recounts Shakespeare on Hamlet’s sanity, a Ganfield Tea laxative pitch, and a Sunday school incident where a boy’s pin prompts a misread motto. Richard, near sighted and glassesless, reads aloud a hidden message asking “Ain’t it to the poor?” prompting quiet embarrassment.
A literary lady at a society dinner argued with a noted scientist over origins. She asserted Adam as the father of all living from the Bible. He gently disagreed and the topic ended. Later she wrote to a friend that she checked and Eve was mother, causing mortification and doubt about writing to the professor.
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