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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
2
The piece argues replacing loud protests with songs to unite diverse communities and foster patriotism. It notes Latin SlavicOriental African and Anglo-Saxon groups joining in singing The Star Spangled Banner and My Country Tis of Thee at dawn processions. Mrs Wisbard urges Montelolr to lead next year.
English papers report Inspector Simpson of Blackburn fire brigade discovering a liquid preservative for iron and other rusting materials. The same liquid is claimed to stop deterioration in ship plates and merakins, offering value to shipping.
London inventor Landor unveils a compact flying machine with two independent motors and no rudder, claiming it rises without a launch and may surpass Wright brothers designs. The piece also notes a watchmaker’s critique of skyscraper magnetism affecting timepieces and a push to fix the balance wheel timing.
Metuchen New Jersey July 16 F B D Prickett a retired Methodist minister and former borough recorder was shot and killed in the street. Archie Herron the alleged shooter faced arrest with a cocked revolver then surrendered after threats by constables. Herron had appeared before Prickett two years earlier for disorderly conduct and was jailed for ten days.
A man shot on a town street as he stepped from a residence. He turned toward a house when a report fired from an unseen shooter, a pall rising near the hedge. Prickett identifies Herron as the man away, and the minister died minutes later from a bullet to the right lung. A separate Reading incident reports Mrs Geul found dead after her barn fire, with a coroner’s jury citing incineration and a farmhand’s charred remains.
Mrs Helen Parton writes from Chicago NL that after a week on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound her nervous trouble and run down condition improved. The ad touts the product as a standard female remedy for displacements irregularities backache and nervousprostration and invites sick women to write for advice from Lydia E Pinkham of Lynn Mass.
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