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Newspaper
North Platte Semi Weekly Tribune
Location
North Platte, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1908
Page
3
The article outlines symptoms of shattered nerves caused by overwork and poor sleep. It stresses mental influence on nerve health and urges eight hours of sound sleep daily as essential for restoring calm, energy, and overall well being.
The royal proclamation ends after August 1 the doubloon as legal tender in the West Indies including British Guiana. Pirates may find treasure valued now at bullion rate. once eight dollars in 1730, the current doubloon is about five dollars. The term survives as a romance reference though its coinage ends.
Opinion argues the Chicago directory is a costly but reliable publication. It notes reporters verify listings with blank forms and questions the value of future census counts while joking about inflated population estimates and asking if the school census should be scrapped.
The passage notes Canada shifting Thanksgiving from October to a later date and changing the weekday from Thursday to Monday to benefit travelers students and businesspeople. It argues the Monday holiday allows longer reunions and protects the festival's sacred character.
A terse warning lists three principal kinds of mosquitoes, two spreading disease and a stripe legged stinging type that makes New Jersey habitations risky. Kill on sight is urged without distinguishing between them.
A Connecticut man frets as he probes a kitchen mishap that leaves his cook unsettled. His aim to resolve the servant issue backfires as the true error surfaces and the mystery unfolds.
An elder woman insists on careful handling for a young man as he travels. The narrator orders the Oakland ferry driver and they rush onto the ferry heading along New Montgomery Street to Market Street toward the bay, the carriage jolting over cobbles.
I join six guards for a dawn errand to the Palace Hotel courtyard with a warning letter from Mother Barton. A gang lurks as we slip through shadowed streets toward Pacific Street, our safety hinging on quiet steps and quick exits.
A London Globe note discusses gendered adjectives and the odd fate of handsome as a looker term. It then reports a Strasburg crematorium urn theft, containing two Berle family's ashes, with police unable to find clues and a demand for restoration priced at £56,000.
Scientists warn the common house fly is a bigger danger than the mosquito as it spreads typhoid and tuberculosis germs. The fly is described as a carrier of hundreds of germs from refuse to food, emphasizing its role in disease.
A reflective remark questions who would plant sowers on graves, noting many would gladly do so, implying a grim eagerness or fatalistic humor about the fate of those discussed.
Avoid risk in buying white lead by using the Dutch Boy trademark from National Lead Company as a guaranteed tester of purity. The company offers a simple testing outfit and a free book on paint upon request to National Lead Company New York.
A collector says doctors are easy targets for debt but hard to prove nonpayment while a laundry column touts Defiance Starch claiming safety for fine fabrics. Defiance emphasizes chemical free formula and strong stiffening power reducing usage.
A letter of thanks praises a clock sent in perfect condition now placed in the parlor atop the bookshelves. The writer hopes to see the giver and their husband soon if convenient.
A fragmentary ad snippet markets guns and traps with fur and hide buying in Minneapolis and Linn, plus assorted quotes and patent medicine references. The chaotic lines mention Garfield, Lewis Single Binder, Mrs Window’s Syrup, Dickens, Allen’s, and generic drugstore notices, reflecting a varied 19th to early 20th century catalog prose.
A periodical appeal urges women to confide privately to a seasoned physician. The author cites decades of correspondence with sick women and claims letters reveal knowledge that could help cases.
From Allen town Ca a woman writes of relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad cites thirty years of use and claims cures for female ills including displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities and nervous prostration with a testimonial of improved health and well being.
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