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Newspaper
Paoli Republican
Location
Paoli, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1907
Page
3
The piece compares human character to refined steel, stating affliction reveals worth. It argues that hardship refines the heart, mind, and spirit for sacred purposes, while easy lives leave one coarse and brittle. Gods hammering makes a fine edge for delicate uses.
Nikalelft Starod yorsky, released after long confinement, recounts brutal conditions at the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress prison in St. Petersburg. Cells flooded by river floods, rats roving, cockroaches in food, and severe solitary and cane punishment. Among 48 prisoners, five killed themselves, three were shot, three died mad, nine succumbed to illness.
The Yale club in New York and the university bureaus in New Haven report rising demand for Yale men and Harvard graduates. A wealthy Pennsylvanian Harvard alum helped connect a western Harvard graduate entering law school, with the university serving as the matchmaking medium.
Mrs Joannah Straw of Canton Ohio credits Dean's Kidney Pills with curing years of rheumatic limb pain backache weakness headaches and poor kidney secretions. At 81 she says she feels as healthy as a typical 60 year old woman and sleeps well eats well and works normally. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Humorous snippets recount a barber quietly guiding an Englishman to the alley for a shave while a shop crowd reads. a flat resident laments losing his pants while seeking a policeman. a boy Bobbie forgets a hairbrush on vacation. and a mother questions vocal training for Daisy with Uncle Josh offering blunt advice.
A reader testimonial extols Grape-Nuts and Postum as cures for indigestion caused by heavy meat diets. The account claims weight gains from 95 to 125 pounds for a man and weight gains for his wife, plus improved health and reduced meat cravings. A neighbor also reports lasting digestion relief after switching to Grape-Nuts.
The wife of Judge Blank on Pacific Avenue cooked for a week when their cook vanished. Delighted, the judge gifted her an ermine cloak. Gossip spread among social circles and Mrs Jerome later pressed her husband for a similar prize, joking about a crepe veil.
Mrs R L Risley recalls her son, now 22, suffering severe facial eczema from four months old, described as the worst case doctors had seen. After trying many patent medicines, she used all three Cuticura remedies. within two months improvement began and by six months he was fully well. Oct 24, 1905.
A man mistreated by a boarding house proprietor rises to success as a popular dentist and ruins his former landlady's business by opening a new clinic opposite the boarding house with a large window sign declaring the headline specialty.
The page includes an old advertisement claiming deafness can be cured by hearing aids and nasal remedies, with references to catarrh and the Eustachian tubes. It lists $100 reward for proof of a cure, plus various rambling product pitches and a cast of quotations and jokes from periodically printed materials.
A vignette shows Riley in a Philadelphia publisher’s office on a bright September morning, remarks on the weather drawing applause and a sharp quip from Riley. The snippet then includes two unrelated advertisements for health remedies and a light joke about cranks.
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