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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
6
The Well-Informed demand a pleasant simple laxative with known wholesome components. California Fig Syrup Co. offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a trusted, ethical remedy preferred by the Well-Informed. Buy the genuine product, distributed by leading druggists, at fifty cents per bottle.
A Norwegian method forces sap from green tree trunks and substitutes dye to produce colored timber. Proponents claim the technique yields furniture with stable finish that resists warping and offers greater durability than ordinary wood.
Mrs A S Payne of Columbus Mississippi suffered chronic back and kidney pains for years. She says Dean's Kidney Pills helped from the first, restoring health after doctors offered little relief. For sale by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Prague inventor unveils a device that sorts mixed coins into separate denomination baskets via a spiral track and size slits. Coins pass through corresponding slits and drop into their labeled baskets, with firms testing the machine for large daily coin handling. Similar sizing principle used in Florida and California for oranges.
Prof. Fred Newton Scott of the University of Michigan foresees English as a dead language by 4000 A D in a School Review article. He suggests Timbuktu could become world capital and Bantu the common tongue, ranking English below Bantu despite its superiority to Latin and Greek.
A Minnesotan schoolteacher known as the Postum Preacher describes her conversion from coffee to Postum. She recalls nervous fits from coffee, credits Postum with steadier nerves, better sleep, and improved health for her and her husband. The testimonial promotes Postum by the Battle Creek company under the slogan There’s a Reason.
A 1900s medical overview explains hydrophobia from dog and animal bites, listing transmission by dog bites most common, and outlines rapid veterinary brain testing, immediate local acid cauterization with nitric acid, cocaine anesthesia, and alternative carbolic or heated wire cauterization. It notes the Pasteur serum as a later option and urges treating all bite cases as potentially infected.
A rallying message asserts that all dangers of this horrible disease may be eliminated, fueling public optimism about advances in research, vaccines, and treatments. No specific dates or groups are cited in the readable fragment.
The Washington Star recounts George W. Rector at the Lucullus Club's $20 dinner in New York. A gourmand returns home after revelry to find his wife, after a playful exchange, asks where the lobster and champagne are while the husband laughs at the punch line.
In Charles Godfrey’s western Australia company, My Fan cy recalls dancers using gold dust mixed with quartz for stage sparkle. The audience supplied gold dust after no sand was available, and the dancer noted the grains shone when placed in water.
A fragment of a button from a house burglary became the crucial clue leading to the suspect after a young constable spotted the waistcoat with the same button in the street. The same type of button helped convict the killer of Mr. Delarue in Belsize Lane, Hampstead, years earlier.
Global rubber production reached about 69,000 tons in 1907 up from 65,000 tons in 1906. England imported 22,964 tons and America 16,020 tons, with Para rubber totaling 30,360 tons and Peruvian 7,160 tons. East plantation rubber rose above 1,000 tons, planted area around 350,000 acres. Brazil exported 41,500 tons, West Africa produced 17,000 tons, East Africa's supply increased.
A humorous misread kitchen exchange shows Norah the green cook asking how to tell when pudding is cooked. The mistress recalls the cookbook instruction to stick a knife in to test doneness. The afterthought warns that if the knife comes out clean you might insert the rest of the knives, in a playful line from the Philadelphia Ledger.
Dorothea interrupts her father at a country window where he sits with unseeing eyes. He explains he is looking into the future, and she jokes about mistaking the future for the pasture. Harper's Weekly remarks two playful lines.
Moody's Magazine reports strong cane harvest—the largest in Mexico's history—and record coffee yields. Some regions face corn and wheat shortages, but prospects remain favorable for good cereal crops this year.
The merchant laments at the eleventh hour that a fresh stamp supply was forgotten. The excited office boy agrees, exclaiming that they have indeed erred, calling themselves blunderheaded idiots in a humorous exchange from Tit-Bits.
United States Commissioner B Isham of Unga Island Alaska notes the Shumagin group including Unga yields 34 sea otters valued at 700 dollars each plus numerous blue and black fox skins. He cites Belofsky Island natives catching 17 otters to feed a 250 person village through winter and describes trade, disease issues, and plans for government aid in housing and medical services for Aleuts and islanders.
Corporal J. T. Farmer of the Army Hospital Corps earned the Victoria Cross at Majuba after waving a white handkerchief amid a Boer assault. Despite wounds and an amputation, he received the VC for valor shown while directing wounded and signaling surrender as the position fell.
A New York fad features pocket monkeys small enough to fit in a pocket with long soft hair and bushy tails. The tiny pets, about the size of a twenty five cent piece, are affectionate and emit a whistling chuckle when excited. They wrap their tails around a mistress’s throat and clasp hands as if greeting an afternoon caller.
A Memphis Scimitar brief quotes a boy who parades in his mother sewn trousers and playfully deflects a grocer’s guesses by revealing the fabric is made from his father’s old clothes. The exchange underscores a humorous domestic moment in a 19th or early 20th century tone.
The fragment states that Siberia holds one ninth of the earth's land area. It notes that Great Britain and Europe excluding Russia, plus the entire United States, would fit within Siberia's borders.
An old advertisement touts Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer promising cures for fits St Vitus' dance and nervous diseases. It offers trial bottle and treatise free from H R Kline in Philadelphia. The text also notes a deepest hole in the world bored in Silesia reaching 7,000 feet through coal beds.
An 23 cent bottle advertises Nra Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children. It claims teething relief by softening gums reducing inflammation and pain and curing wind colic.
A new ventilation method in the Royal theater at Stuttgart purifies air quickly at low cost without drafts. An electromotor and transformer create an alternating current to operate an air blower and electrical discharge field where oxygen becomes ozone, circulating purified air through the building.
Four years ago severe inflammatory rheumatism caused skin peeling high fever hair loss and bed sores. After trying many remedies the patient reports relief with Cuticura Resolvent Ointment Soap and Ointment improving complexion and hair. Mrs Lavina J Henderson Stamford Conn March 12 1907. Leading physician endorses Cuticura for eczema.
The article explains wireless photograph transmission via selenium cell light resistance and Knudsen dusting to reveal dark areas. It describes a clockwork carriage style moving to scan the image and a relay circuit to generate radio waves, with a receiver syncing to start each stroke.
An older advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for feminine disorders. It cites backache nervousness headaches and bearing down pains.
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