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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1903
Page
6
A humorous Boston Globe excerpt humorously catalogs legendary figures starting with Adam as the original father of mankind. It jokes about his garden job, marriage, age record, and later challengers like Methuselah, foreshadowing patriarchal quirks and family troubles.
In Montana near Billings a tiny pioneer cemetery holds fifty two burials. No headstones remain and most graves rest under weathered wood. Legend pins founder One Arm Bill as the driver of many deaths. A recent foundation dig uncovered human bones prompting a coroner’s examination.
Practical device designed to scrub vast office floors more efficiently. Two long pivoted handles move to create rotary and back and forth motions, reducing labor by half and avoiding kneeling. Invented by a Far Northwest resident and tested in Tacoma and Vancouver. Also notes a man in Plymouth, Penn, suffered rib fractures during a severe hiccup attack.
A wound-stitching device by Dr Michel promises rapid, painless treatment. It uses a chamber of nickel hooks to align epidermal layers, operated by forceps and adjustable up to 25 stitches per minute. The device allegedly reduces skin penetration, lowers pain, and is easy to disinfect.
A young man on Boulevard Haussmann yelled a rival in a passing cab and tossed a walnut into his friend’s throat. The nut lodged, choking him. doctors arrived too late and he died. The joker awaits legal action.
John L Rosso of New Brunswick U J has not drunk water since 1862. For about eighty years he has consumed whiskey wine and beer only in moderation. Now 78 he remains strong and robust but says he has forgotten the taste of water.
An exhibition in a Haverhill Massachusetts window displays a hatchet said to have been used by Indians in the Dover massacre of early days when twelve white people were killed.
Ida Whalen of Logansport Indiana awoke to a snake coiled on her fingers while dreaming she was tying her hair. She crushed the twelve inch water snake killing it but receiving multiple bites. The family cat, known to bring snakes indoors, is blamed for the intrusion.
Charles Edgar Trowt of this city has curious Java related documents noting his great grandfather the Rev Mr Trowt a Baptist missionary prominent in Christianizing Java. A translation of the Lord's Prayer into Javanese made by the missionary is reproduced.
Secretary Cortelyou strolls past a Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park when two colored women discuss the emancestor, one claiming the statue honors the insister. The piece blends humor with a nod to race and civic memory in a 1900 era anecdote. Nearby notes recount a remarkable Pennsylvania jury, the value of Black Hills ore, and a testimonial about Piso’s Cure for Consumption.
Miss Kate Borman of New York City testifies that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved backache and fatigue from kidney and womb troubles, claiming it strengthened her and restored health. The ad urges other women to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts for guidance.
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