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Newspaper
Preston News
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1908
Page
6
A two year old in an East End family cried loudly when milk ran out at dinner. Parents offered water to pacify him. An older brother suggested showing the milk bill to quiet the child, implying price rises would stop the hollering. The scene amused a guest amid potential din.
A chapel scene ends with a wax match mishap as the minister suggests singing to cover the disturbance. The piece shifts to home medicine advice, recommending a small chest with items like ipecac syrup, castor oil, spirits of nitre, arnica, witch hazel, and antiseptics for minor ailments and potential doctor visits.
A firm in London forged a seven foot diameter solid aliver tray weighing over 10 000 ounces for an oriental potentate. Claimed as the largest tray ever made, it has resided with workmen for years. The article also touches on fleas and plague, Avicenna, rats as plague vectors, and experiments by Simond and others with mixed conclusions.
Northwest Notes reports on mining finds near Ely Nevada and Shafter Nevada, a fatal rock fall during prospecting, a large turkey exhibition in Eureka, gas ignition during an artesian well drill near Billings, and legal cases in Helena and Montana. It also covers Nevada police staffing, a witness fee bill in the Senate, and Denver related crime cases in Seattle and Hamilton Washington.
Professor Paul Milyoukov former Chicago scholar and Russian Duma member spoke at New York's Civic Forum on Constitutional Government for Russia. He traveled 5000 miles to address about popular government, drawing applause from about 4000 listeners and tracing his career from exile to leadership of constitutional democrats.
Arthur Pearson, new proprietor of the London Times, runs Standard Express Evening Standard and St James Gazette plus several weeklies and monthlies. A former Tit-Bits staffer, he rose from $1,500 yearly to a multi millionaire, famed for risk taking and Radical under a princely lifestyle. Joe Chamberlain calls him England’s greatest hustler.
Washington B. Thomas, named head of the sugar trust to succeed the late Havemeyer, will run a $90,000,000 corporation with a salary rivaling the U.S. president. A Harvard man with deep Boston social ties, he balances business might with devotion to family and golf, living at Hole’s Crossing and the Frederick Ames mansion.
Chicago public parole reform led by Municipal Judge McKenzie Cleland, who sought to redeem the fallen through a street parole system, has ended with his transfer from Maxwell Street to the civil branch. Since December 27, 1906, 1,241 were released on promise, 74 sent to Bridewell, 1,145 made good, and 12 disappeared, amid clashes with Mayor Dunne over clashes with officials and reform methods.
Charles Von Soehnen of Colfax Washington describes a thirty year battle with kidney troubles back pain and rheumatism. He credits Dogn's Kidney Pills with near complete relief and endorses the product. Sold by dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Sorrowing widow demanded a photograph of her late husband Henry Brown a Bronx train dispatcher who died December 6 and was buried at Woodlawn cemetery. After about 20 days the Bronx health department granted permission to exhume the three weeks old corpse so a photographer could capture profile and full face shots.
A 1907 letter from Lily Hedge of Camberwell Green describes severe childhood eczema cured after using Cuticura Remedies. The writer recalls hospital dismissals as hopeless but reports total recovery six months after starting the treatment. Also notes midshipmen marriages and humorist weights in a separate column.
Poem fragment describes a young spitz chasing a black cat and her kits. The mistress vows discipline for the dog, expressing anger and intent to spank him.
Mrs Hardapple asks how much the cow killed by a man driving his car is worth. Hiram Lowers the value to 60 dollars then 500 dollars for an imported Holstein prize cow. The two discuss settling the claim in cash or legal action.
Inaugurated about 1464 the first postoffice scheme was a private enterprise. Piles cured in 6 to 14 days. PAZO OINTMENT guarantees to cure itching, bleeding or protruding in bowel in as little as two days or money refunded. Some finished orators don’t seem to know when to quit.
A reader from Gardiner Maine claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her from an operation after a physician said it was necessary. The ad touts the remedy for female troubles and invites women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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