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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1914
Page
2
An Iowa woman died after laughing vigorously at a joke, in a rare fatal outcome linked to excessive laughter. Medical examiners note the death resulted from underlying conditions amplified by a fit of mirth.
A Canadian report argues prison labor could reduce costs by using convicts for government goods such as mail bags boots caps uniforms saddles pails brooms and more. It cites concrete blocks drainage materials and part of a recent asylum as successful examples and notes road building offers less competition with free labor.
A local notice asserts deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tube mucous lining and cannot be helped by local applications. It claims nine of ten cases arise from catarrh and offers a $100 reward for any cure not addressed by its catarrh remedy, with contact details for F. J. Carney & Co. in Toledo, Ohio.
Lyman H. Howe's Travel Festival at Table Opera House tonight shows a daring Grand Canyon shot by a photographer who hung one quarter inch from a deathly fall. The rope jammed on a pulley as guides lowered him over a cliff, yet he freed himself and was saved by heroic effort.
The Par is Kentuckian Citizen recounts a Civil War era anecdote about brothers Andy and John English of Sharpsburg. John claims he was mistaken for Andy during a Missouri bushwhacker incident, narrowly spared execution after proving his identity.
George Westinghouse inventor of the air brake and railway electrical devices died in New York last week.
Henry James describes experience as an immense sensibility. It is a spider web woven through consciousness that captures every idea and converts air’s pulses into revelations, especially when the mind is highly imaginative or genius.
A brief reflective line notes that prudence fades when love begins and even a thinker can become a fool in matters of the heart.
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