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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1916
Page
11
An advertising snippet extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment as cleansing and healing for various skin troubles and offers free samples by mail. The ad also notes other notices including the Prince of Wales joining Masonry, Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets liver pills, and a quirky fact about Cochin China inhabitants preferring rotten eggs.
Washington reports Secretary Lansing states the Netherlands mobilizes troops beyond prior readiness as unrest grows from the Tubantia and Palembang incidents. Officials doubt war over vessels. Holland plans to buy 100000 tons of wheat from the United States to shore up reserves.
Winnipeg becomes controlled as riots erupt after a street fight between soldiers and civilians. A soldier was arrested, violence lasts seven hours, four soldiers and a civilian are seriously hurt, many others injured, and over fifty soldiers are detained by military authorities for suppression.
At the conclusion of Oscar Martini's preliminary hearing a mob of about 500 seized the prisoner in a Idabel Oklahoma courthouse chamber and hanged him from a back balcony. Martini was arrested Friday for alleged assault on Edna Murphy a thirteen year old girl at Bismarck Oklahoma.
A large blaze in Manhattan on Monday damaged two five story paper dealer buildings at 16 and 18 Beekman Street with losses around 100000 dollars. Smoke and water injured several floors of the Morse building and the American Tract Society building housing the New York Sun offices also suffered smoke and water damage.
Washington April 5 The North Dakota net weight pure foods law requiring lard in one three or five pound packages with a special label was held constitutional by the Supreme Court. The law was challenged by Armour and Co.
The article describes the kelek a buoyant ancient Mesopotamian craft made from goatskin inflated and tied beneath a light frame. Cargo is placed on a flat bottomed platform and the boat travels the Euphrates and Tigris aiding commerce despite shallows and depths.
The article explains that eye perception is delayed, causing rapid flashed images to fuse into continuous motion. It notes film frames shown at sixteen per second create seamless effects, including impossible constructions like a building tearing down and a skyscraper rising, by projecting evolved sequences quickly.
New Brunswick trials an automated lift near a dam to raise salmon past barriers on key Canadian rivers. The device has drawn strong interest as an effective solution to enable fish to reach spawning grounds.
A church dinner for poor parish children delights the youngsters though a boy pockets a jam tart and pudding. He is rebuked for manners but then sighs that hereditary etiquette was invented by someone who was never hungry.
Sweden's stock exchange structure includes sixteen banks eight banking firms or brokers and five ordinary brokers. Notable stock exchange buildings have been erected in Stockholm and Gothenburg. The annual business volume totals about 100 million dollars.
The article explains how kidney disease raises arterial tension and harms heart function, leading to uremic poisoning and death often labeled as heart or lung disease. It promotes 10 cent trial of Dr. Pierce's Anuric, claiming strong potency and uric acid dissolution for backache, scanty urine, rheumatic pain, and fatigue.
An old advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to purify blood, remove impurities, and improve vigor during spring illness. It claims to cleanse the blood, stimulate blood-making glands, and enrich the body with pure blood to fight debility and loss of appetite.
An engineering firm reportedly creates string from paper after experiments. The substitute closely imitates real string and may undercut current prices as ordinary twine becomes scarce. The text mentions use at a Hartford Times arsenal reference and a digression about Winston Churchill and his father Lord Randolph.
The fragment suggests a dialogue about debt repayment with Knicker saying Subbubs pays debts. It notes he returns a snow shovel in spring and then borrows a lawn mower, implying a pattern of borrowing and repayment behavior. No concrete events, dates, or identities beyond Subbubs and Knicker emerge.
A young widow believes the only safe path to control her future is to pursue the man she believes will replace the late husband, arranging a course of action to remove him as a competitor.
A hostess converts three coffee drinkers to Postum by serving it as coffee without disclosure. The guests praise the beverage, and the hostess explains the switch after revealing it was Postum. The testimonial cites improved health and urges others to choose Postum over coffee.
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