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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
8
Florida Health Notes describes the life cycle of the house fly from maggots to adults. It explains feeds on manure and spoiled matter, spreading germs from spit and stools, and urges flyproofing closets and clean stables to reduce breeding.
A shark egg described as pillow shaped with a horn at each corner and about two inches long. It has no shell and a thick leathery elastic covering. The long feelers wind around seaweed and float until incubation ends. One variety lays eighteen eggs in April, and they hatch by December.
The ara tricolor or Cuban macaw is Cuba s rarest bird. It inhabits swamps and features a red forehead yellow on top bright yellow neck cinnamons edged with green scarlet under parts orange throat blue upper wings brown underparts brown legs and yellow eyes. It is seen at dusk resting on swamp lily pads and is among the handsomest birds in any land.
D M Turley and wife visited H C Carter and family Sunday. Mrs A B Carter improves but cannot do much work. Miss Flossie Carter and Miss Orpha Shepherd plan Roachdale visits. Will Plummer adds a front yard fence. Miss Louisa Rains is in critical health with heart trouble. Brewers promise to be good again, like pie crust. Farmers discouraged by late corn planting. oats and corn growth slowed by cold dry weather. wheat scab may reduce yield. Walter Boyd and wife visit H C Carter then Brooklyn, Martinsville, Illinois trip planned for a week each, Boyd travels for a millinery firm and is on a four week vacation, a Republican but not Taft.
Noble and Myron Stanton visit grandparents in Martinsville this week. Mrs. Hannah Elmore shows health improvement and may soon sit up. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Stanton and Katharyn dine with Mrs. Hannah Stanton in Mooresville. Mrs. William White of St Louis arrives to visit relatives. C E and Missionary societies held a social for members and families at Laura Hadhey’s home with 100 attendees. Refreshments, Brooklyn orchestra, and vocal entertainment. Preachers Rev Lewis Stout Plainfield, Rev William Reagan Vermilion Grove, with Rev Stout delivering afternoon sermon. A noon dinner was served on church lawn. Attendees included Mrs. William White, A. White of St Louis, Mrs. Griffith, Mr. and Mrs. Grimes and daughter, Albert English, Mr. and Mrs. Asbury Ward near Monrovia, and Wiiany Survey and family of Mooresville.
Jerry Ware attended a business trip in Martinsville and Dave and John Ware traveled to Mooresville. Mrs. F. M. Murdock shows improvement from typhoid fever while Mrs. Minta Butterfield returns from New Mexico. Walter Rike family visit to Greenwood, and Mrs. Fred Woods dies after long illness. burial at Mooresville cemetery leaves a husband and young daughter in mourning.
A medical description explains jaundice as a symptom arising from bile flow obstruction or poisoning. It details obstructive and toxemic forms, color changes, eye and skin signs, itching, and the need to treat the underlying condition rather than the jaundice itself.
An old gardener plays a joke on a visiting botanist woman visitor at her master’s house. He points to a flower asking if she knows its name. She doubts him thinking of science names, he reveals it is a rose and they both laugh. The tale appears in the London Globe.
A brisk anecdote recalls Johni known as Lord Tidin limping along Edinburgh High Street when a young woman labeled him the lame lawyer. He retorts I am a lame man but not a lame lawyer. Lord Justice Braxfield also faces similar courtesy lapse in a brief vignette.
A Chicago Tribune snippet shows a heated exchange over a bill where one man questions the name on the invoice. The other asserts no debt exists and accuses error, highlighting a mistaken recipient and a tense misunderstanding.
An essay extolls walking as irreplaceable and universal. It notes walking suits any mood, aids health, eases sorrow, and can be shared or solitary. The piece highlights sunshine, air, and nature as happiness influencers and quotes Walter Williams from the Columbia Herald.
The Frankfurter Wochen blatt recounts a farmer attacked by a dog who killed it with a pitchfork. The dog owner sued. the judge asked if the other end of the fork would have helped. The peasant quipped he would have used it if the beast had rushed with its other end first. No damages awarded.
W C T C notes discuss broad support for statewide prohibition. Figures cite forty four thousand voting for NC liquor ban while South Dakota and Oregon push saloon limits. Virginia and Dartford show growing prohibition territory as Chicago plans to close one hundred saloons. Fresno lodge bans intoxicants in meetings as marches against alcohol intensify.
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