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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1914
Page
2
A fragment mixes a prophetic appeal with an astrologer pitch about Foneda and Foucha promising guidance and success. Nearby text notes travel to Butler's Grocery and then shifts to Washington reporting a $130,000 rise in army rations costs next year due to European war and higher horse fodder prices. Navy coal freight woes prompt Congress to redirect funds.
Atlanta December 14 report says Arthur Brisbane editor of the New York Evening Journal showed slight improvement tonight while ill at a local hotel. Doctors say he is suffering with an intestinal ailment and is under care.
More than 8000 New York business men reserved seats for a peace insurance luncheon under the Merchants' Association tomorrow. Speakers include Major General Wood and Major Mitchell who will discuss preventing U S entry into war after an attack of acute indigestion afflicted Mr Bris bane on arrival from New York.
A Handels blad dispatch from Antwerp reports rumors of a rout on Bavarian troops guarding a garrison. The story is unconfirmed, but Bavarian barracks have been closed to outsiders.
Boston, Dec. 14. Night shirts are to be worn tonight by inmates of the State prison in Charlestown for the first time in the history of penal institutions. Sixteen hundred are ready for distribution, each inmate to receive two.
Gloucester reports the three masted schooner Hila Mr. Storer was driven ashore behind Dog Bar Breakwater and became a total wreck. Captain Kelley, his wife, and five crewmen reached Ten Pound Island in a yawl boat after the storm.
Aerial dictographs are described as inexpensive, concealable devices used to eavesdrop in homes and offices. The article explains how transmitters hidden behind pictures or desks relay every word to receivers, aiding bank tellers, claim agents, and investigators, and exposing fraudulent plans through whispered conversations.
An enthusiastic advocate of high living suggests Americans try the Scotch dish haggis. A philanthropist recounts its preparation from sheep stomach to gravy and how it should be boiled four and a half hours. A quip notes the first oyster bravely opened earned civic honors. Poincaré heads the French army though real power lies in constitutional clauses.
A fragmented dialogue depicts a temperance issue with finance confusion about stocks and water content. Another snippet shows concern over money tightness and a warning about work attention, reflecting workplace anxieties and personal affection amid distraction.
A Draper North Carolina woman describes years of left side pains and near smothering, credits Cardui the woman’s tonic with relief. The ad claims over 50 years of use and cites 2 million satisfied women, urging others to try it and request a 64 page home treatment book from Chattanooga Medical Co.
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