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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1908
Page
3
The Daily News and Weekly News will discontinue mail delivery to subscribers in arrears as of January 1, 1900, following a government Post Office ruling. No discretionary extensions or complimentary copies will be sent, and publishers warn of penalties for noncompliance.
A Leslie's Weekly writer critiques vast medical fads from minute drug doses to barefoot walking and mud baths. He argues there are no universal remedies and disease treatment must follow long standing medical experience, with some conditions needing air climate or simple rest rather than drugs.
A 16 year old visitor to Montauk Point hospitals offers comfort to sick and wounded soldiers after Cuba. She asks if she may pray for them and a grateful soldier replies with a surprising request to ask God to make him her son in law, recalling a Harpers Weekly anecdote.
Train crews on the Denver and Rio Grande report two bands of mountain sheep seen on cliffs beyond the Royal Gorge near Spike Buck. The eight and about fifteen animals roam high above the tracks with no fear of trains as shooting is forbidden. The precarious pasture yields good feeding and keeps the animals elusive.
Gen Marbot writes that Morland, the French general slain at Austerlitz, was sent to Paris in a rum cask for burial. The cask stayed in a cellar, the monument was never built, and Morland’s body remained in the cask until Napoleon’s fall. Decay caused the cask to burst revealing mustaches reaching his feet.
Queen Alexandria treasures a simple earthen ware milk jug kept in her Sandringham boudoir. A poor dying girl gave it, and its memory soothes her during the nursing, with the jug serving cream at tea for exalted guests in her Swiss chalet.
A traveler at a southern railroad junction observes four colored men fishing in a two foot deep pond. One explains their aim is not fish but to keep from roofing chores, as a wife wants shingles laid, a humorous misunderstanding in dialect from the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
In a San Francisco Call item, Montana Senator Tom Carter on a Northern Pacific train outsmarts porter Sam by proving he can light a Pullman match on a doped shoe. Carter wagers two dollars, wins, then refunds the tip and scorns the porter.
Reported incident at Rockville Center details Nurse Aurelia Ldmht bourne accused of poisoning a baby with matches and dressings to fake illness. Investigation traced child care gaps to Purdy home. Confession followed. nurse jailed while infant's mother may regain custody. Further claims point to planned repeat abuse if given a day off.
In a courtroom anecdote Lord Guillamore and Chief Justice O Grady hear a defense plea. The junior counsel asks to speak on a key point but the judge replies he will hear him later. He then directs the jury to acquit the prisoner, defusing the moment.
ED Hood collector lists locations and dates for tax collection across Falcon, Bodean, Azor, Sutton, Laneburg, Mt. Moriah, Cale, Morris, Boughton, Emmet and Prescott. Real estate owners must bring last year’s tax receipt and school district numbers. collection runs Feb 25 to Mar 6 with books closed after April 10.
A six year old Elsie calls Kitty a horrid child and says she wishes she were a boy. Kitty replies that she wishes she were a boy too but voices it so boys can hear. The exchange ends with social gender tension framed as a schoolyard remark.
The item features a light exchange from Howston Post with a pug versus dachshund preference and a pun about sausage. It presents a quaint, humorous dialogue fragment rather than a full article. The tone recalls a small town newspaper’s comic or joke column.
The essay notes portable searchlights of 50,000 candle power on battle wagons or armored cars, aiding night detection of the enemy and artillery, locating guns, and guiding ambulances with dogs during and after night attacks. It cites naval use and adoption by England and the US, with past Boer and Russo Japanese night combats.
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