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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1907
Page
4
Divers Kraming and Macphail worked at fifty feet in Simonstown during dockyard operations. Kraming's helmet unexpectedly unfastened, leaving Macphail to rescue only to lose his partner as both men battled to reach the surface. The magistrate labeled the drowning a mystery with no foul play suspected.
The Kingman Star lists advertising charges for local notices obituaries and condolence cards with rates per line and per category The notice also states free Sunday church announcements and a general pricing structure for display and classified content based on ad type and revenue source.
Telepone No 46 offers a free trial size box of Dr Shoop s Catarrh Remedy promising instant relief for catarrh of the nose and throat. Ad copy urges readers to send for the sample to Racine Wisconsin and notes retailers J M Cory in Kingman and H B Kiger in Yeddo supply larger jars.
An advertisement urges parents to choose Dr Shoop’s Cough Cure over other cough medicines. It notes new federal labeling rules require poison notations, warns against poison marks, and recommends demanding Dr Shoop’s product sold by J M Cory in Kingman. The pitch emphasizes safety for children and brand trust across multiple papers.
A resident describes private Chinese schools run by relatives or communities with limited government involvement. Boys attend long days from dawn to sunset with rough discipline and games. girls mainly learn domestic duties unless a mission or local school is nearby. The piece praises perseverance and business acumen of Chinese merchants despite minimal formal schooling.
The northern territory is described as a vast, undeveloped region with Palm erston as its capital. It is noted for racial tensions, fierce aboriginals, and large bison herds. Prospects of mineral wealth are hinted with shares called Terrors trading in London.
A panorama of transatlantic wealth owning historic jewelry. Marie Antoinette’s pearls and coronets pass into American hands while portraits and a crown once made for Queen Isabella of Spain fetch high sums. Enthusiastic collectors chase artifacts tied to royal figures.
Sdoward Wahlson discovered a six foot cannon weighing 700 pounds buried two and a half feet below ground near the Red Bank battle monument site. The English make smooth bore cannon has five ribs and faint letters. Likely used in the 1777 battle at the same location.
A Swiss court in Delemont condemned two men, the Scherer father and son, to life imprisonment for murder and robbery. The judges also ordered the execution of the dog they used, after weighing the animal’s participation in the crime.
A survey of venomous serpents notes the African mamba as highly dangerous and aggressive, capable of leaping at targets and even seeking interviews. The Indian king cobra rivals in size and ferocity, though its venom is only slightly less virulent, while Australian and American pit vipers share notorious reputations for aggression and potency.
The article explains a theory of curing mal de mer by using chairs or platforms on deck that move up and down in short motions to counteract the ship’s long pitching. A chair design features a seat that moves relative to the frame powered by a small motor and belt driven eccentric to induce brief vertical shifts.
Two parish churches are in the Willingale churchyard where the late rector Nev Joseph Swayne is buried. The tale notes a split between two sisters over a seat, leading the younger to build Willingale Dee beside the old Norman church. Rainfall drives tree growth. twelve years of rings show annual growth links to precipitation levels, with 30 to 35 inches yielding .11 to .15 inch rings.
A new patented machine converts waste paper and pulp into corks. The corks resist acids and oils and are claimed superior to traditional corks by chemists and major users.
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