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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1914
Page
4
A religious leader extols South America as a region of great possibilities. He notes a Brazilian as a leading figure at the Hague conference and praises the "patriotic" people for a century of dedication to great ideas and causes, urging aid to empower forty million to serve the world.
A Central News dispatch from Ostend recounts a diary style timeline of the Antwerp siege. It details Belgian retirement, Malines bombardment, forts De Waelhem and Wavre St Catherine destruction, city bombardment, and eventual Belgian and British withdrawal as German heavy artillery and aeroplanes pressure the defenses.
Advertisement for Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets claims to regulate stomach liver and bowels with sugar coated granules. The copy notes a pleasant product name and mentions a slogan about sleep and soundness.
International News Service reports from Ostend on Belgian retreat from Lokeren, exhausted infantrymen marching under German bombardment. The bombardment delays, refugees flee to Holland, spies arrested, and Ostend spared, while Antwerp residents flee by river Scheld and trains. A hospital at St Camille is destroyed with nurses and wounded buried in ruins.
Paris reports 40000 German casualties in the Antwerp capture per Journal correspondent Paul Erio. Belgian forts Waelhem Wavre and Lierre resisted, with Germans throwing compact masses into the breach. Belgians inflicted heavy infantry losses south of defenses and Fort Bornheim, while many civilians fled to cellars as German shells battered the city.
A Petrograd dispatch reports Smolensk receiving the entire stock of Emperor William’s cattle and horses seized by Russian forces from Rominten estate. The animals were taken to Moscow and given to the Russian Agricultural Institute for distribution among breeding groups.
Paris dispatch recalls a German battery bogged in a swamp near Esternay and Sezanna during a clash with French forces. Cut off, the crew resisted with fierce fire until ammunition ran out, leaving soldiers dead or wounded and guns propped on trees to keep from sinking.
A Morning Post dispatch from Belgium details a night attack at Duffel during the Antwerp siege. Belgian chasseurs in trenches were overwhelmed as masked attackers masqueraded as English friends, leading to the death or capture of most of the 2,000 Belgians with only about 800 surviving.
Philip Miller of Cimarron Kansas, a Gray County Probate Judge, reports six boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills eased six years of heart trouble and dizzy spells. He credits the remedy for stopping palpitations and says he weighs about 200 pounds and remains active in his third term. The letter also requests correspondence and advertises Dodds Kidney Pills at 50 cents per box along with free household hints and music.
In a brief exchange, Mrs Browne confirms she has not been away while a neighbor insists she and Mr Browne were abroad for a week at Loggerheads. The remark appears in National Monthly as a light, gossipy note about domestic life and mistaken travel.
Mrs I E Clark of San Martin California reports a skin rash on her child improved after using Cuticura Soap on the face and scalp followed by Cuticura Ointment. The eruption faded after a few months and the child slept better. Advert says samples of Cuticura Soap and Ointment are free with a 32 page booklet.
In a concise exchange a couple names love as the central topic of their evening. They confirm that love is the sole focus of their talk and time together.
Promote guaranteed wear proof hosiery locally with an ad from Wear Proof Mills. The message targets friends and neighbors in Philadelphia asking shoppers to buy Christmas stockings from a prominent regional seller.
A fragmentary dialogue asks about a new lullaby called Bye-bye a bale. The exchange notes curiosity and unclear details about the song's title.
A fragment notes Red Cross Bag Blu aiding a laundress to whiten fabrics and please customers with clean clothes. The item is praised by grocers and linked to a suffragette who must wash to support herself and a man she might marry.
Euphemia Ohio woman details years of monthly pain and illness ending after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. She cites relief during 47th year change of life and 18 years of good health with no doctor visits, now working as maternity nurse and sewer.
State Teachers Association meets in Albuquerque November 23 to 25. Roswell stores 1 500 cars of hay. Melrose ships 30 000 bushels of wheat. San Juan valley ranches sell 1 000 acres. Boundary hearing postponed to November 1. Auto registrations rise to 1 996 from 1 897. Various legal cases, railroad sale delays, and county projects noted across the state.
The Chinese Republic's population is 312 400 590 and its area 4 277 170 square miles. Its territory exceeds the United States proper by 1 160 381 square miles.
Two men discuss a coming season in a brisk overheard chat. One jokes about pawning his overcoat in May to raise funds, admitting he lacks common sense yet senses the looming change and agreement that it approaches in the air.
Municipal Cold Storage in Cleveland offers storage for eggs butter and apples at low prices with lockers for retail merchants at five dollars a month. Wholesale dealers use space and an 80 ton daily cooling capacity exists while a 60 ton system is being installed and the warehouse size is doubled.
The text notes Germany's North Sea border from Oldenburg to Schleswig at about two hundred miles. It cites the Kaiser Wilhelm Kiel Canal as 61 miles long with a cost of 40 million dollars. It adds a literary quip on novels ending with marriage and a joke about judging by clothes.
A trained nurse recounts using Postum in place of coffee, noting relief from headaches and indigestion after two weeks. She reports improved milk flow for nursing mothers, benefits among patients, and recommends hot served Postum with cream. Two forms priced 15–60 cents. There's a Reason for Postum.
A landlord returning home finds a tenant on a wall, who greets him with a scowl and abuse. The tenant blames a steward for eviction and references a lecture circular. An advertisement for Red Cross Bag Blue appears in the text.
A humorous note describes Mark as having a taste for giving girls handsome umbrellas. He is playfully dubbed their rain beau by admirers.
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