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Newspaper
Lebanon Daily Reporter
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
2
A physician tells a Mormon husband near death that the end is near while the wife, coming downstairs, asks if she should stay. He urges her to hurry as the best spots are already filling. The remark ends with a wry suggestion about bedside presence.
A reader explains how the earth's rotation and its orbit around the sun create seasons and day length. The piece links ancient views of celestial motion to modern understanding, notes solstice variations, and urges observing sunrise shadows to track yearly progress. Local notes include Chas. Denger’s return, Center Children’s Day success, and residents like Leonard Gray, George Adama, Mrs Forest Duff, Don Durham, and Creed Staten.
The Board of State Charities cites eleven years operation of indeterminate sentence and parole laws. From Michigan City Prison and Jeffersonville Reformatory, 2,460 and 1,523 men paroled respectively, totaling 3,983. Parolees earned $1,079,275.40 during testing and most adhered to conditions, though 1,001 (25%) violated parole, 576 returned to prison and 425 remain at large.
A July Farm Journal piece offers practical homemaking tips from farm women. It covers preserving milk in a tight vessel, silk care, balanced meals for growing children, kitchen ventilation, meat handling, jam straining, cooking with sugar, and drying Lima beans with careful drying methods.
Hattie R. Lister states on June 23 1908 that National Fire Insurance Company Hartford through Neal Co agents paid 455.87 dollars in full settlement for fire loss on June 18 1968. She endorses the prompt fair settlement.
A traveler in a railroad restaurant asks if it is twenty minutes to eight or to wait. The reply clarifies the time left and states the train has already departed.
The article notes a bumper wheat harvest promising a heavy county yield while farmers juggle many tasks. Merchants anticipate seasonal sales as insect stories echo past bugs. It also describes Michigan timber poles production, yard sizes, and a statistical look at life expectancy over a century.
An eastern woman has been made a sanitary Inspector. Her report concerning the condition of her neighbor's kitchens anxiously awaited.
The column extols Dean's Kidney Pills as a quick relief for backache from kidney trouble. Wilder Rinehare of Waveland Indiana recounts a two year affliction with nocturnal urination headaches dizziness and blurred vision. After using three boxes he reports a complete cure and gratitude for the Old Quaker Remedy.
Ad lists fabric types and quantities including white Dimity, white India Linen, white striped Nainsooks, Dimi ties, Lawn, Batistes, Cambric, and prints. Mentions yardage like 10 yards and prices such as 23¢, 7c, and 6 1/2% for a Friday and Saturday sale.
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