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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1913
Page
7
A collection of wry maxims on marriage character and grief paired with an advertisement for Mrs Winslow's Teething Syrup promising to soften gums reduce inflammation ease teething pain and cure wind colic amid a quip about a multi talented man and railroads losing money.
A miscellany of humorous vignettes and rural scenes unfolds. Dialect wit contrasts with a comic exchange at a drugstore over stamps and antelope. An Uncle Sam relief expedition encounters Uncle Eph adrift in a skiff as he paddles and bails.
The article describes two sail designs for roller-skate sailing, a square sail and a triangular sail, with detailed construction steps. It advises using light cloth, cutting spars to specified lengths, attaching a spreader, and installing rope stays and fasteners. It explains handling and pivoting the sail against wind directions.
Edward H. Chandler writes in the Boston Globe that true gratitude shows in living joyously and sincerely. He notes flowers, warm hearts, and genuine desires reflect gratefulness more than formal phrases or mere amusement. He argues happiness rests on broader evidence than crime, poverty, or cynicism.
Haber and Lowe describe a new German instrument that measures gas fractions to determine carbon dioxide and methane in mine gases. The device also analyzes benzol vapors from gas or coke plants and sulfur dioxide from pyrites roasting, ozone in air, and hydrogen purifier checks. It enables breathing gas analysis and other useful tests.
Major General Arbuthnot, president of the British Aerial league, appeals to patriotic sentiment in England after French public subscriptions fund aeroplanes for the army show success while England's two month effort yields poor results.
A Nottingham Bulwell school asks what a policeman is like. The boy describes a large smart man who punishes truants, patrols streets at night, carries a lamp, staff, whistle and handcuffs, and can trace robbers.
A Chicago reader details two years of water blister eczema on hands and legs, noting relief after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for six weeks. The ad claims cure with no remaining marks and offers free samples via Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Also mentions parish social gossip about church belles.
A skeptical quip about danger and romance attributed to a judge frames a brief dark humor note. The exchange contrasts fatal risk with the value of surviving life’s perilous moments.
A brief dialogue notes a man marrying for principle and another who now lives on the interest, illustrating a humorous or ironic view of marriage and finances. The lines suggest contrast between ideals and real-world outcomes in domestic life.
Reports from Canadian officials indicate Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta will match last year’s planted area. June bulletins note abundant sunshine and timely rain, with wheat headed between July 10 and 17, oats late but well grown, and general optimism for a bumper crop if weather stays favorable.
A fragmentary meditation describes a man who eats and drinks in heat and sweats in exaggerated terms likened to a cake of ice on a hot stove and includes a scolding tone toward the subject.
Swarthmore Pennsylvania woman says years of suffering and a near operation ended after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and she urges other women to try it. Baltimore Maryland woman reports four months of hemorrhages after a miscarriage and says the remedy restored her strength for daily work. The notice asserts all testimonials are genuine to support the product’s effectiveness.
An advertisement hawks Electro Galvanic Rings claimed to pass a mild electric current through the body to cure rheumatism neuralgia nervous decline indigestion female troubles eczema bowel liver and kidney complaints. It offers a full money back guarantee and urges readers to send measurements for a trial pair. Also promotes a Minnesota farm for sale near Campbell with easy terms to actual home-makers by Leslie Mullen.
A Cincinnati Commercial Gazette wedding note from twenty seven years ago praised William H Taft as a Yale graduate with perfect integrity and courage predicting a career of high distinction for the future president.
A wry exchange notes that approaching backers scares them away and that angels may flee when pressed. The speaker muses on whether young men are as bad as girls portray, hinting at reputational pressures and social double standards.
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