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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1908
Page
2
A collage of杂 notes from Potosi Journal mocking current events from Oregon prune trees to radium shipments, Castro and Hobson, and a Dayton physician denied penitentiary admission. The column wryly critiques clergy, editors, Burbank cactus fruit, and the God we trust motto while muses on pensions and a liquor cure.
The New York Times mocks a woman who kept bank checks for safety rather than depositing them, suggesting she could have worse by depositing and hoarding cash. The remark frames the act as masculine foolishness and highlights gendered critique in financial behavior.
With railroad passes abolished it is not believed that outsiders will largely attend next year’s national conventions. Previously as many as 20 000 auditors other than delegates and alternates arrived at conventions causing doorkeepers grief yet boosting hotel and bartender business.
A Ladies' Home Journal writer recalls a dinner with King Edward where the bishop of London forgot grace. The duchess of Roxburghe grew anxious, but the king calmed her with a playful line. He told her, Your Grace is sufficient, easing the moment.
Investigation details two points about Pullman cars at St. Paul. Upper berths go to light weight passengers while heavyweight travelers get lower berths. The Pullman company pays porters 25 dollars a month and relies on tips for the remainder of wages.
A wine merchant explains a switch by which electricity instantly alters a cask of wine. He calls the autumn wine sweet and harsh, predicts it will soon smooth and mature into eight years old. He touts electricity as a miracle that grows fruit, rejuvenates people, and ages wine.
Chicago judges have tried novel penalties to mend unhappy homes. One man was ordered to talk with his wife for thirty minutes daily for a month, another to give candy and flowers weekly for four weeks. Reported results suggest partial success and potential for broader use.
The text notes Greek travelers wore hats only for long journeys while free citizens went bareheaded. It describes the pilus as a servile skull cap for slaves and workers, and observes Romans shared a scorn for head covering. In England the headwear habit persisted until the early fifteenth century.
The period of financial low mood and tight money has created hardship for the very small, but offered a golden opportunity for prudent middle class buyers with ready money. Shareholders reportedly increased, with some boards doubling in the last few months amid good security bargains.
Burton H Barnes and companions travel from Ajaccio to Marseilles on the steamer Constantine. Marina faintly collapses after a note and Maud Chartris is implicated in the crisis. Barnes probes the incident while preparing for a London departure, amid urgent, cliffhanger intrigue.
In a Corsican scene at Ajaccio, Marina collapses and remains unconscious for hours. Doctors advise rest, and the party hastily moves her to the Grand hotel on Rue Noailles. Edwin and Marina are escorted there while Maud faces a day of confinement as punishment for running from her governess, with Barnes left anxious for fresh testimony.
A married man asks if his solo vacation is justified. He says a year of hard work and a wife with worries and noisy kids makes him need a complete change. He retreats to the mountains for fishing and evening chats with young women, returning home refreshed, unlike when his wife and children accompany him.
A nurse tearfully described shocking and abusive treatment of feeble minded wards. The disclosure details alleged neglect and mistreatment, prompting calls for investigation and reform.
Allegations before a legislative committee detail horrific abuse at Lincoln asylum for feeble minded children. Reported acts include unprotected radiators, unsafe machinery, scalding baths, dissection for a museum, improper feeding, and bribery attempts to suppress charges. Bankers allegedly fought for spoils, while officials faced threats over state funds. A nurse mourns the children as conditions worsened and sewage overflow polluted areas.
An influenza epidemic hits the imperial family in St. Petersburg. Grand Duke Alexis Nikolaievich, the heir, and his four sisters are ill, with ear inflammation complicating his case. Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna and other royals also fall ill, linked to recent Christmas tree celebrations. Prof Simonovsky was summoned to treat the heir.
Ellingwood Kas newslines report cashier W. Lee Bockemohle of the defunct Bank of Ellingwood was under arrest for false statements when he killed himself at his home Friday night. Bondsmen had surrendered him and were leaving the residence when he asked them to wait. on the porch he fired a fatal shot.
Peter Conley and John Egan section foreman and section hand on the Panhandle were struck and killed Saturday morning while working on the track at Hayden about 12 miles south of Columbus.
Mrs Sallie Harris sister of former U S Senator Francis M Cockrell of Missouri died at her daughter Mrs J A Shannon's home in Oklahoma City Saturday night.
An explosion of a carload of dynamite at the Hocking mines in Oskaloosa Iowa wrecked the company store and several adjoining buildings. The property loss is estimated at 100000 dollars. No injuries were reported.
Rio Janeiro police detained six sailors from American battleships who deserted or failed to return aboard before the fleet sailed. They will be sent after the fleet on a collier.
Cincinnati rider Miles Wilson fired at his wife to frighten her using blank cartridges but a real bullet hit him. He is believed to be dying from the wound, raising questions about the incident and his condition.
The 1907 shipbuilding summary by the Shipbuilding World shows the United States second in total ship tonnage constructed, with England leading.
Edward Colgin, 21, died after sliding head first down banisters to impress girls in Mount Vernon Colorado. The incident left him with a crushed skull, and authorities described it as a fatal accident. Police are investigating circumstances.
A smooth scheme targets farmers, raising land bids to sixty dollars an acre then charges fifty cents per acre for advertising. An agent promises payment only after sale, but no contract supports it. About twenty two agriculturists are said to have been caught. one paid three hundred twenty dollars. Some vow to fight in court. Mammy Liza repeats a dialect line about livery stable delays.
Mrs Lillie Wilcher of 770 Eleventh Street Chattanooga Tennessee reports that Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment cured a neck sore and facial tetter after other remedies failed. She notes the cure followed two years of itching on hands and wrists and mentions two babies and an uncle’s child also improved. Dated February 16 1907.
A humorous verse describes a young man in Des Moines who orders a T bone sirloin and is told by a waiter that payment must meet a sufficient amount of coins. The scene captures a playful exchange over a meal and money.
A collage of vintage health ads promotes Castoria with its signature claim for infants, Brown's Bronchial Traches for bronchial relief, Garfield Tea as a laxative and purifier, and a proverb about simple living. The text reflects period marketing and wellness rhetoric.
Faced with female troubles, Mrs. Ellsworth and Mrs. Boyd praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring health and energy. The ad claims decades of use and urges letters for advice from Lynn Mass, promising relief from infertility to nervous prostration.
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