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Newspaper
Preston Booster
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1912
Page
3
The article traces historical use of leeches and bloodletting as medical cures. It notes leeches fed on various blood sources from horses to humans, with owners relying on these practices and farmers treating illness by draining blood, sometimes weakening patients severely. Kansas City.
In 944 in London 500 houses blown down across fifteen days. A fleet of twelve men of war with 1800 sailors vanished in night battle near shore. The Eddystone lighthouse and its inventor Winstanley were swept away by the storm.
A garbled excerpt notes The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham, a fifteenth century collection by anon An' en Borde, a Carthusian monk from a village near Notting, describing its famed Wise.
Fragmentary London Family Herald text recalls a Japanese scene with phrases about bowing from both sides and a guard then vanishing. The garbled OCR shows limited readable imagery of ceremony and breath, lacking clear event or names for a fuller summary.
A reader quips about a newly released atlas, joking that the cartographer must be colorblind as Europe is shown with blue shading for the wrong regions. The remark lampoons map coloring choices in a lighthearted way.
The article recalls icebound winters when the Thames froze and frost fairs thrived. It notes key years such as 1608 and the famed 1683 84 fair with printing shops, ballads, coaches, and amusements. It mentions King Charles II visiting and later fairs in 1716 1740 1788 9 and 1814 lasting days.
The Philadelphia Inquirer recounts a sharp exchange at the College of Surgeons where examiner Abernethy tests a cape with a joke about an explosion. The student answers I would wait till he came down again. The examiner interrupts with a quip about kicking, asking which muscles move to floor him.
I NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. Land Office at BlackYest Idaho April 40 1912 Notices hereby given that Anate aces nee Coburn of Sonar Ida who on Hots 906 made Homestead Entry 084265 SW1 4 NW14 SE14 NW id Ne ie ane SE 14 SW1 4 ne Ok Dee naelD 6 8 E B Meridian has filed noting Final Proof to establish claim to the land above described before George H Carver United States Commissioner at Preston Idaho on the 20 day of June 1912 Claimant names as witnesses Joseph Coburn Fred A Coburn David Lapray John D Coburn Weston Idaho HENRY W KIEFER Register
A distressed child, called Mister, pleads for two bites of food from a philanthropist. The exchange reveals claims of being an orphan with a dying mother and hunger driving the request. Demonstrates poverty and the tension between charity and suspicion in a tense roadside scene.
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