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Newspaper
Philip Weekly Review
Location
Philip, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1919
Page
4
Dan Fink of Meade County reported seeing a real ghost after a prank by local youths who donned white sheets and ghostly gear to frighten him at a remote spot. Separately, county commissioners voted to bridge the Belle Fourche River at the Pratt crossing and called for bids.
A London Times advertisement by Hurcomb the auctioneer mocks the old belief that pearls improve with time. It recounts a tale of a bank tin box containing a discolored pearl necklace lost to dust, using the anecdote to urge against hoarding possessions and note the editors’ questionable judgment.
A concise pull of Civil War and Spanish American War milestones on July 1. Gettysburg began on July 1, 1863 with three days of fighting and 83 000 casualties by day two. Malvern Hill reflected McClellan's retreat drawing criticism. In 1898 San Juan and El Caney ended in American victory with Theodore Roosevelt commanding the Rough Riders.
Early American glass industry notes: a Philadelphia glass house operating in 1683 with Joshua Tittery joining from Newcastle. Caspar Wistar likely built New Jersey’s first glass factory near Allowaystown in 1739, and Tamestown, Va., hosted a 1601 glass bottle plant. Indians grew flint corn for hominy and bread corn for soups, inventing succto tash, with maize and beans. Corn remains America’s staple crop. a single year’s smutze produce a line long enough to circle the globe nine and a half times.
A concise description of ventriloquism defines it as producing tones without mouth movement, the illusion of sound from another location. It notes no special vocal apparatus is needed, relies on breath control and throat shaping, and traces the art to ancient Greece and Rome with historical terms.
A note that the first caucuses under the Richards primary will be held in November signals the start of political activity. The text adds a provocative line urging readers to consider their choices as the campaign season approaches.
Dr A Terson advised the French Academy of Medicine a new life test for the dying on battlefields. Using a 33 percent dionin solution injected in the eye, any remaining life should trigger a purplish red swelling in the eye whites, fading quickly with no lasting harm, improving rapid decisions where survival is uncertain.
In a reminiscence a defense lawyer recalls Lord Kingsburgh Macdonald noting juries fear anger over brutal murders can override clear insanity evidence. The anecdote describes doctors failing to detect madness in a prisoner who calmly predicts his execution date, despite pulse readings suggesting insanity.
A New York literary agent comments on Alfred Noyes the English poet. He recalls Noyes as always prudish even in childhood. At four, after bath time, his aunt walks in while his purse advances and he shouts Get out What do you take this for an art gallery.
Complete 1918 hydraulic cement output statistics compiled under Ernest F. Burchard of the United States Geological Survey show the lowest Portland and other cement production since 1900. The drop is attributed to wartime government restrictions affecting fuel supplies transportation labor and private construction.
Officials state that special agents will be placed in the field with autos and every effort will be made to enforce the game laws. Reports indicate prairie chickens have already been slaughtered in some areas. The open season runs September 18 through October 16, followed by a duck season from September 18 to December.
In Ashland Kansas a man reports Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy saved his daughter's life from a violent dysentery attack. He also used the remedy with good results for himself. One cent a word for advertising in our Business Local column. Submit your want ad to the paper.
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