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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1916
Page
2
Marie Renfrew, raised as a boy by her trapper father in a Saskatchewan frontier, plans a secret elopement with Milvaine to Port Barry after her father’s death. MacFarlane pursues, catching the fugitives as Marie’s passion collides with a harsh moral test in the wilderness.
Fragmentary OCR вид. The Real Thing and the fair maid rejoin the young man acting as escort. A line mentions seeing Hamlet played by a real man and a response about supper.
The New York Sun reports Thomas A. Edison chaired the naval consulting board meeting in Washington last fall while listening through Morse code tapped by his assistant Miller R. Hutchison. Hutchison conveyed the proceedings at up to thirty words a minute, using finger taps and eye winks to keep Edison informed amid the crowd.
Four state conference on country life argues cities owe rural areas a debt for food and leadership. Advocates call for reorganized rural schools, improved roads, better product marketing, transport facilities, and higher paid teachers to raise rural vitality and curb living costs for workers.
An Indianapolis salesman recalls a small Texas townsfolk scene on the Fort Worth and Denver line. Drummers gather on a chilly platform while a darky dances to stay warm and then cries out to the cold wind asking where it was last July.
Military surgeons employ an effervescent powder of sodium bicarbonate tartaric acid and sugar to treat wounds. When applied to a moist surface the mixture effervesces releasing carbonic acid, providing pain relief and disinfection during care.
About thirty former Henderson high school graduates gathered Monday night to form a permanent alumni organization. A three-member committee was named to draft by-laws, and plans for a May 19 banquet were announced. The school is one year old with roughly a hundred alumni, ninety living within twenty miles. Officers chosen were Jd. G. Loving as president A. G. Elowgas secretary and G. T. Harover treasurer.
M Raymond of Antibes reports the companion to Alpha Cancri is no longer visible and requests verification with large telescopes. Marseille observatory could not sight it with a 21.5 inch reflector. The star, once eleventh or twelfth magnitude, lay about seven arc seconds from the primary, with Raymond noting a color change since Herschel's 1820 observation.
A paper presented to the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis discusses variability in human tubercle bacilli virulence among patients. It notes that as few as ten bacilli can infect two guinea pigs in some cases, while in others one hundred are needed. Immunity in animals may be induced by gradually increasing injections from one or two bacilli to higher doses, or by injecting 100 to 200 bacilli from a virulent culture to create a regional lesion for surgical removal after precautions to prevent spread.
Frank Wombacher of Winifred N D bought a cheese for a dollar to marry Miss Vernie Nelson a 26 year old in Brooklyn New York. They wed in a ceremony led by Rev G D Trown of the Methodist Episcopal Church during a shopping day for dollar bargains.
In Columbus Ohio Mrs J Barlow says six years of female troubles and nervousness left her weak and unable to eat. After ten days on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound her stomach hurts no more and she regained weight. Her husband notes the medicine saved her life and she urges other women with similar ailments to use it.
An advertising PSA extols Old Kentucky chewing tobacco as wholesome and satisfying. It touts fruity flavor and long lasting quality from burley leaf, claiming increased appetite support and overall healthful satisfaction, urging readers to try a free plug and visit their dealer.
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