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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1905
Page
6
Farmers weigh a ten hour workday claiming higher daily output and easier access to labor. They compare urban wages and overtime to farm needs, urging more labor saving machinery and efficient planning to cut costs and improve results.
Moravia New York June 5 Mr Benia minre Wilson a respected resident says his wife nearly died from sugar diabetes after four years of illness. Doctors warned she would not live and she dropped to ten pounds. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills her weight rose to nineteen pounds and she recovered fully. Rheumatism and its painful bumps dissipated and he praises Deaddd's Widnes Pills as the cure.
An inquisitive reader asks why the world grows wiser. The answer cites a newspaper report claiming lobsters are petting scarcer, prompting the student of cause and effect to ponder shifts in reality and perception.
Instructions describe boiling soap in water, washing lace collars, rinsing in hot water with gum arabic and tea, then ironing. Signed by Eleanor L K Parker as guidance.
A fragmentary passage notes a failed chance and unclear dialogue. The text evokes hesitation and disappointment as characters discuss choices and consequences, closing with a moral about lost paths and what cannot be regained.
A Wis. cor respondent reports a man named Glebesen walked into town with large quantities of socks gloves and muttons and 83 pounds of tabatees offering them for sale at a quarter of value. He claimed to have won the goods in poker in the woods and was released after explaining the items were his.
A testimonial describes relief from stomach and kidney issues after switching to Grape-Nuts. The speaker credits improved digestion, steadier nerves, sharper thinking, and sustained energy for work, ending with a prompt to read The Road to Wellville and noting Postum Co. Battle Creek as the source.
Ned Mitchell presses Meredith Brander to confess as a doctor discloses a ring swallowed by the murdered woman. The vicar Vernon Brander and Abel Squires watch as truth and hush-money schemes collide amid threats and family pressure.
Reports from Scutari Albania and surrounding towns describe two strong shocks of an earthquake that devastated Montenegro area. Dozens killed or injured as hundreds of houses collapsed and residents slept in open air. Tremors felt across the southwestern Balkans with Cara and Cataro reporting heavy damage.
The Rajah of India ordered a $10 billiard cue from a Chicago maker. The maple cue features inlays of rare woods from a dozen tropical nations and 16 000 mother of pearl pieces. It was shipped from the factory after six months of work. The Raja trained with Frank Ives to master the paume and sought the finest artistic cue possible.
Meteorological department warns of active volcanoes near Tamazvuli with dawn activity expected after two weeks of subterranean booms and rising ground forming cone shaped hills. In Indiana an elderly woman, Mrs Isaac Bare, leaped into an abandoned well seeking suicide, leaving herself badly wounded but alive with passersby discovering her.
A major fire at the Avenue theatre during a matinee destroyed the theatre and damaged the adjoining Grand opera house. No lives were lost and the loss is pegged at 150000 dollars, fully insured. Investigators believe crossed wires sparked the fire.
A Pottawatomie Indian at Pokagon attempted to wreck a Grand Rapids and Todiana passenger train carrying 20 passengers. A freight train crew intervened as ties were scattered along a quarter mile of track. The Dodian was arrested and jailed at Dewarne after confessing.
A Pennsylvania passenger train from St. Louis struck an oil wagon near Dayton Ohio. The tank burst ignited by the engine fire killed engineer Gimbes and Charles Pryor of Columbias. The wagon driver escaped unharmed. The train sustained no damage.
Reports say a serious battle broke out near Kushevo in Macedonia between Servians and Bulgarians. Twenty Bulgarians and twelve Servians were killed with many wounded. the Servians captured a Bulgarian leader alleged to be a captain in the Bulgarian army.
Report from Earlham New Mexico states La Mesa on the opposite bank of the Rio Grande is seven feet under water. There was no loss of life as the river rose gradually and all residents escaped.
A blaze in Oneonta New York caused about 100000 in damage destroying two brick blocks and two frame structures and injuring one building. Principal losses include the A B C Niles block valued at 20000 and the Oneonta Grocery Company occupying the Niles block with a 30000 loss.
Two miners are killed after an ore fall at the Walpoole mine in Iron Mountain Michigan. Their bodies lie 00 feet below the surface as rescue crews continue to search and dig for them.
A wholesale grocery agent pushes maple syrup labeled as pure. The grocer, already stocked, samples the product and privately asks for a gallon for personal use while insisting he sells only strictly pure goods. The seller claims the syrup was made in the countryside by a brother with five hundred trees.
Both Sides of St. Biggs-Easyun is a philosophical sort of chap. He spends a lot of time getting at the bottom facts in an argument. Diggs-Yes, and his wife spends a good deal of her time scraping the bottom of the flour barrel.
A quip cites a boy’s ambition to work on the railroads evidenced by his habit of slamming doors, from a Philadelphia Record remark.
Mrs Mary D Murphy of Fort Wayne Indiana says years of stomach trouble and weakness vanished after taking Pink Pills. She notes rapid improvement within the first box and complete relief after three, claiming benefits for anemia dyspepsia rheumatism neuralgia and nervous prostration. The ad invites inquiries and free literature from Schenectady New York.
An English Exchange notes that most European sovereigns trace their line to English kings, with eleven directly descended from James I. It cites crowns of Spain, Portugal, England, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Greece, and Denmark through Elizabeth and Frederick VI, plus a future Swedish Norwegian king via Princess Margaret of Connaught. the Turkish sultan could be the sole exception.
Mrs. P Brunzel of 3111 Grand Ave Everett Wash reports fifteen years of severe back pain and fatigue. After using one box she felt a marked improvement and completed five boxes with the pills described as effective and prompt. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY advertises sale by all druggists at 50 cents per box.
The dialog juxtaposes Hyker and Pyker discussing Urban’s fear of burglars and a cook escaping. A quip about clothing color prompts Red Cross Ball Blue as a whitening remedy. The text references a 202 package with five vents and hints at rural Japan nudity. It ends with a Self Iaking Dating Stamp offer and a Fort Wayne address.
A playful exchange between a Lady Customer and a Bookseller about a cook book that lacks pictures. The customer laments the absence of plates while the bookseller notes illustrations are uncommon in cookbooks.
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