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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1909
Page
1
A satirical rapid-fire column cites James Patten's wheat manipulations as a joking potential boon for a corn bread revival, praising cornbread's taste, nutrition, and low cost while touching on varied era curiosities from insurance worries, storms, royal baby advice, and political quips.
A Saskatoon reporter recounts Fred Allingham and companions in Moose Lake area who raised wolves as drive animals. After a long workday the trapper returned to his shanty to find his three year old child devoured by the trained wolves. He killed the entire pack with a boat axe in a fatal rampage.
David Gurd warned by two friends inches from danger as a rotary saw operated by gasoline engine severs logs. Burd, injured with four scalp gashes and a fractured right arm, is expected to recover after neighbors stop the engine and remove him from the whirling blade.
E F Turner of Hamilton county recounts riding through Meridian and encountering a cyclone near Clifton. He describes a towering water column over 500 feet high on the Bosque river, debris swept up, a large tree uprooted and carried atop the column before the tree fell far away. The event followed heavy recent rains and flooded paths.
A 19th century advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers $100 for any case that fails to cure and urges readers to send for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, with mentions of Hall's Family Pills.
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