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Newspaper
New Albany Evening Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1908
Page
2
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The item records several dates and biographical notes: 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte elected emperor by the senate. 1664 Nathaniel Hawthorne, eminent American writer, dies, born 1804. 1900 Mafeking relieved by British after a 217 day siege. 1904 Jorgen? Rodgaris, American-born? Greek national, kidnapped in Hungary, contact Raisullmy Edward Conger US minister to Pekin, dies at Pasadena, born 1843.
Sun sets at 7 09 p m and rises at 4 35 a m with the moon rising at 10 04 p m The data provides daily celestial timings for observers in the region and helps plan evening and early morning viewing sessions.
The piece mocks overconfident supporters and notes touring "Cuele Tom's Cabin" in Japan. It highlights anxious officials, fleet marksmanship reports boosting naval prestige, and skepticism toward a candidate confident of victory. It presents a skeptical, opinionated snapshot of political and military discourse.
The article notes King George of Greece is the poorest European monarch with a meager income of about $500 daily. It states he survives on annual contributions totaling $60,000 from England, Russia, and France, provided as a diplomatic tip to keep his court functioning.
A czarist era citizen argues that American upheaval repeats Russia’s patterns. The note recalls Emma Goldman’s suppression for speaking, anarchist papers censored, and claims that police influenced incidents like the Chief of Police Shippey attack and Union Square bombing as setup efforts.
Analysis argues Raisuli will likely survive to keep drawing wealth from ransoms and instill fear. The article notes tribesmen attacked after his latest captive Kaid MacLean and suggests his extended reputation benefits tribal resources and political leverage in Morocco.
A historical examination contrasts New York practice with Paris London and Vienna markets. It notes Paris guarantees, government oversight, and brokers barred from personal trading. It discusses London as agent-based, German futures limits, Austrian grain rules, and states the United States alone lets exchanges set harvest prices for producers and consumers.
The New York Herald reports New York City added about 125,000 residents last year. It notes more injuries occur boarding streetcars than alighting, and building costs rose with each new structure.
A reflective note on how sincerity is shown by harsh critics. It contrasts parental pride in a child’s mischief with harsher judgments of others' children, highlighting bias and double standards in social perception.
Locals applications fail to reach the disease, catarrh. internal remedies target blood and mucous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is claimed not to be quack medicine, prescribed by top physicians for years as a regular prescription. It combines tonics with blood purifiers to produce remarkable results.
The British and Foreign Bible Society in London marks 100 years with a Philadelphia gathering at the Academy of Music. Bishop Whitaker opens, James Bryce and Senator Beveridge speak on Bible reading and history, and a Roosevelt telegram is read. Beveridge extols the Bible as universal truth guiding ethics and daily life, surpassing secular literature.
A letter from Mrs Joyce of 160 Sullivan Street Claremont Minnesota describes trying two bottles of Faley's Kidney Cure about a year ago and claims it cured a severe kidney ailment though the text is garbled and partially unreadable.
Washington reports on forest service spending and franking abuses under Gifford Pinchot, rapid printing of the sundry appropriation bill, Prohibitionist hopes for a Denver platform plank, Tillman’s European rest, Roosevelt letters, and the stalled relations between Williams and De Armond.
An advertisement asserts a health cure for women addressing pains in the back and urinary bladder or kidney troubles. It promotes a pleasant remedy claimed to provide relief for women.
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure for kidney disorders and related pains. It promises relief from back pain urinary issues and nighttime frequency and offers free sample bottles and a booklet from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY.
A mix of miscellaneous notes notes on coal briquets on a flagship, mine fatalities, a Youngstown man’s billard ball bet and physician fee, Massachusetts town areas, a Chicago comptroller ruling on charity contributions by utilities, Canada’s employment in carrying trade, and a multi town living situation in John E Risley’s new house across Manchester Vernon Bolton.
The Sunday Rest league based in Sacramento spreads along the Pacific coast. The Church Army of England posted income over 1.1 million dollars with only 33 thousand spent. The Colonial and Continental Church society sent eighty four chaplains to Canada. Epworth league and Canadian Sunday School may jointly ship two chapel cars to reach rail aided districts without churches. Cambridgeport Vermont in Rockingham town hosts a union meeting house society keeping a small village from over churching for seven decades.
A British Medical Journal theory links people resembling each other to shared diseases. Dr H W Schmidt tests radium at 1800 C, finding its effects mirror those at room temperature. Other notes cite electric anaesthesia for execution, citric acid as a water sterilizer, and rapid cholera and typhus germ kill rates under sunlight.
A collage of witty quips from several papers mocks political figures and theories. Johnson City staff comments on widows hats, St. Louis Globe-Democrat mocks Wizard Burbank, Pittsburgh Dispatch jokes about Peary, Chicago Tribune notes revolutions in South America.
Ben Levi to write the music for The Follies of 1908. Blethern plans touring with Lord Dun dreary. Fannie Ward scores in London edition of The Marriage of William Ashe. Caught In the Rein extended through July. Laura Hope Crewe set as star in the next American title.
A reflective page presents Coventry Patmore’s line about life’s few lessons and a long dialogue from Aucassin and Nicolette set in Beaucaire. The lovers debate heaven’s gate and earthly joys, contemplating saints, priests, and a life of revelry and valor.
The passage expresses faith that good will ultimately prevail for all and that winter will yield to spring. It reflects on human doubt, the worth of effort, and the image of an infant crying in the night seeking light as Tennyson muses on meaning and purpose.
The excerpt presents a meditation on dawn when Hesperus the Evening Star appears and the sun reveals the world. It ponders human fear of death and calls to trust divine order as light conquers darkness. The lines echo discovery and the awe of celestial display.
Fragmentary OCR features a Burns poem fragment about courting secrets and wary glances. The lines urge a suitor to approach discreetly and act as if uninterested, while courting and jealousy themes appear. The text preserves the original language and rhythm of the poem.
Fragment from a poem reflecting on poverty and wealth. The speaker recalls life as a beggar boy with Aladdin's lamp and cold, damp nights, then desires to trade fortune for the lamp that is his own no more. He resolves to shed material gains for a life without false riches.
A garbled OCR fragment presents poetic imagery about verses under a bough, wine and bread beside the speaker, and a wilderness described as paradise. It reads as a fragmentary reflection with unclear source and attribution.
Fashion notes expect summer lingerie hats in organdie and white fawn over wire frames. Paris experiments with skin tight alcove styles but unlikely to cross the water. A novel enamel map pin with a diamond marks the pin wearer’s birthplace.
A pattern of this frock is offered in all sizes from 32 to 43 inches bust. Send 10 cents to this office with number 410 and it will be mailed to you. The design features a gored skirt and a fitted fabric fold, with mandarin sleeves finished by shaped bands.
The article describes the silkworm’s growth cycle and cocoon formation. It explains how a single thread forms from the larva and around three to five days ensue to enclose the insect in the cocoon. To prevent moths from breaking the silk, cocoons are steamed before winding off the silk.
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