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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1916
Page
4
A melodramatic tale from the Scenario 57 era follows Grace Cunard and partners as they pursue the secret behind a broken vial on a journey that lands them at Emerson Hough in Gretahotten with film company intrigue and peril.
Kitty Gray and Count Frederick ally against Grahoffen agent Baron Bartel to seize the Gretzhoffen coin as they flee the moving train. Roleau guards the coin while Kitty escapes toward Gretzhoffen, awaiting pursuit by Grahoffen forces and mounted men.
Kitty Gray infiltrates Gretzhoffen palace to seek the old torture chamber rumored beneath the tower. Guided by Margot’s wary warnings she descends to a hidden vault where a heavy door yields to a rusty key. Light fails as a scream rends the silence, and the scene ends with a cliffhanger.
A cowboy was fined after being arrested for roping his pinto through a city street. A witness, an automobile man, followed the case to court and noted the cowboy’s claim that the horse ran fast because the animal could lope easier than walk.
A new tooth filling claims to use a pie segment as a model for a safe restorative. The inventor suggests a baked filling resembling a pie slice and argues it could simplify dental work and please patients.
A church lecture about good and bad people leaves a small boy convinced the chauffeurs prefer hell. On returning home he tells his mother that drivers want to keep their old motor and do not aim for the good place, after overhearing a car discussion.
Honolulu Maunaloa erupts in May sending lava flows down the mountain at about one mile per hour. The incandescent glow floods the landscape, readable from miles away, following a path similar to the last eruption nine years earlier. A wide lava front sits roughly fifty miles distant, with property values between.
Edward Smith found a 100 year old ax and a whetstone embedded in a hollow section of a 115 year old tree while cutting it down. The items were placed there for safekeeping and the tree reportedly grew around them. Warren I reports a woman mayor who strictly enforces an antisplitting ordinance.
A Richmond Virginia reader recounts relief from heat flashes dizziness and nervousness during menopause after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming improved health and urging friends to try the remedy. The ad describes common menopausal symptoms and recommends timely use of the product.
The piece surveys historical and tropical examples of hypnotic state induction in animals. It cites Athanasius Kircher’s chalk line trick with a hen, cobra paralysis in India, a frog on a board, crabs and crayfish feigning death, and insects using death feigning to escape danger, noting variations by species and duration. It ends with a note on China reporting nearly 200,000,000 gallons of kerneenom fonr.
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