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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1912
Page
8
Classified notices promote numerous farms ranches orchards and properties for sale. Listings reference Oregon California Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota and Washington with farms timber pasture improvements houses stock machinery grain crops and prices. Many entries specify cashed prices and box mail addresses for responses.
Bangor Maine reports a winter forest campaign employing 70 600 men and 22 000 horses across Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Canadian provinces. Aimed harvest reaches 2 500 000 000 feet including pine cedar spruce hemlock and birch with pulp mills gaining prominence and rails replacing sleds for transport.
New York Mrs Anna Jelinek left her estate to cousin Joseph Berger but there are two cousins with that name claiming the role. The courts must decide which Joseph Berger administers the estate.
Washington reports that passing a big ship through each lockage will require at least ninety eight electric motors to run twice, with the number possibly rising. Gates weighing 300 to 600 tons must open and close, lock chambers of 3 500 000 to 5 300 060 cubic feet filled and emptied, fender chains weighing 24 098 pounds lowered, and vessels towed through. All operations except towing will be controlled by a single man at a switchboard.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. John J. McDevitt, famed as the "millionaire for a day" after a White House visit, announces he is an ardent supporter of President Taft. He was returned from the capital with renewed backing.
In Coatesville Pennsylvania a Pennsy grade hill becomes a deadly trap for starving rabbits nesting on the rocky summit. The Columbia wrecking crew found 37 rabbits dead at the base with brains dashed out as they slid on a smooth icy slope.
George Wilson Bull of Dunkirk Wells Fargo express messenger on an Erie train and Thomas Kellam baggageman of Salamanca fought a mountain lion loose inside a combination express and baggage car between Meadville and Salamanca. The animal, shipped from San Antonio to Buffalo Zoo, broke from its crate to grab chickens. Kellam grabbed a revolver from Bull and shot the lion in the head, ending the chase.
The North Dakota Agricultural College extends its education campaign with publications on humor and debate, advocating women suffrage, and teaching banquet speaking. Bureau of Education experts monitor the effort as extension services publish a free monthly magazine and run movable schools, lecture courses, debates, package libraries, corn shows, and exhibits.
New York re introduces the business men's court of honor after 17 years. The chamber of commerce conducts arbitration with sworn arbitrators chosen from its members. Cases cost about 50 to 60 dollars and decisions are binding with no appeals. The court is open to all merchants, proceedings are confidential, and arbitrators are paid ten dollars a day.
Au Sable Forks resident Ellison N Cooper proudly shows a new brick heavy bathtub measuring 7 feet 4 inches by 3 feet 4 inches by 4 feet and weighing 1940 pounds. It holds 800 gallons of water and is four inches thick. Steel girders will support the tub so Cooper can bathe comfortably after previously bathing in sections. Cooper stands six feet four inches tall and weighs about 140 pounds.
Public notice style text promoting Red Cross Ball Blue and a promotional pitch from W and H Walker Pittsburgh Pa. to sell daily household items by mail with catalog No 18. Includes mention of Edith and Jack breach of promise and a humorous line about King Arthur.
Advertises Cole & Co. apused carbolisaire as the pain relief solution that stops burns heals valenis and prevents scars from a druggist labeled in Black River Falls Wisconsin.
An amused slice of period advertising includes quips about hats and eyesight, plus medical claims. Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets promise constipation cure and general laxative use, while Garfield Tea is touted for immediate relief. It also notes piles cures and a sardonic line about marriage and ideal men.
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