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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1906
Page
6
In March London received a cargo of dried flies from Brazil destined for poultry feed. Brazilians captured millions of insects along the Amazon using gauze nets, dried them in the sun, and packed them on sticks for export. The Brazilian government had once banned export to protect river wildlife, driving prices up from 6d to 1s 6d per pound.
A competent authority on China says China has made greater progress in two years than in a millennium and praises it as a miracle of natural resensitation. Dr Joseph Franklin Griggs, medical missionary in Peking, endorses the view and writes an authoritative account to appear in the July Century under the title China Awakened. In Germany, 2405 dogs were killed for food under official inspection in the last three months of last year, with many more slaughtered privately, the Journal notes.
Ad promotes The 1. Human Cigar Co in Denver address 810 1th Mreet urging smokers to ask their dealer about agility of a centipede. It uses surreal wording to compare nervousness and invention.
A colorful survey notes George Westinghouse as a "hundred horsepower man" while San Francisco mayor Schmitz and Montreal's Ekers are quoted with formal orstagey addresses. It cites Taft’s early career, Diaz’s hunting trip, and Reid’s library gift. It also mentions Senator Pef fer’s retirement project, ex governor Bob Taylor’s rise, Levy’s art gift, and Judge Fleming’s pension stance for Civil War veterans.
The piece notes Ancesociation forming to supply spectacles to London free schooling children. London county council revises prize books removing Vanity Fair Dombey and Son Pendennis Great Expectations. Berlin talks of two lyceum types for girls, eight and four years. Tombs prison master Joseph Graveur praised for guiding detainee youth. Tombs school resembles an information bureau. A humor snippet about Capt Hobson’s presidential boom and light quips on modern love and graduation.
A Indiana patient credits a prominent local physician with diagnosing coffee as the cause of 20 years of stomach disease. He switched to Postum with cream, reporting his stomach now healthy after two years of drinking the coffee alternative. The ad cites Postum Co. and promotes a ten day trial and the booklet The Road to Wellville.
London reports show renowned specialists command steep charges for distant visits. Prof Bergmann travels to Constantinople for a sultan’s daughter’s appendicitis, while English doctors bill up to 200 dollars for long-distance calls and Cinical figures like $5,000 for Paris to England trips. Cases like a $20,000 Cherbourg visit and Cecil Rhodes telegraph treatments illustrate the era’s costly medical practice.
In Harlem residents complain of a fishy taste in Croton water. The water department flushed mains drawing from the High Bridge reservoir. When hydrants were opened fish were seen in streams along the curb attracting crowds and even a fisherman who caught eleven fish for supper. The explanation cites fingerlings entering the water supply.
Paris report describes Mme Lemaitre a market woman who claimed a lizard lived inside her for 40 years after swallowing a live animal. Dr Diebelot operated a small incision and produced a large lizard, after which Lemaitre proclaimed immediate relief and returned to work.
William Bates a clam fisherman of Red Wing Minnesota found a pearl in a clam shell. It is claimed to be the largest freshwater pearl and is valued between 10000 and 100000 dollars. The pearl weighs 85 grains and has a fine luster. Bates and his wife have been poor until now.
A new steamship service will inaugurate between Genoa and the Canary islands with calls at Teneriffe and Las Palmas. To bolster export trade, samples up to 11 pounds will be carried free and commercial travelers will receive a 25 percent fare reduction.
The report notes that at least 20,000 people go missing in London each year and only about one fifth are ever found. Many disappear without trace as authorities and friends never see them again, with many ultimately leaving the city.
For nearly a generation Dr Williams Pink Pills have cured thousands with no harm. Miss Charlotte Van Salisbury of Castleton New York reports neuralgia and heart palpitations relief after eight boxes she was cured. Her sister Sarah also improved from anemia and gained weight. Pills sold by druggists or mailed by Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY six for $2 50. Descriptive pamphlets free on request.
A Michigan rural family named Beaver described as troublesome to the minister prompts a rattlesnake bite tale. After a boy is bitten, the clergyman prays for punishment to bring the family to repentance. The quip ends with a call for even larger snakes to bite the old man.
The Supreme Court grants a permanent injunction with costs against Paul B. Hudson and others of New York City. It restrains them from making or selling a foot powder advertised as Foot-Ease, affirming Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy N Y ownership of the Foot-Ease trade mark and declaring the imitator product fraudulent and infringing. Each genuine package bears Allen S. Olmsted's facsimile signature on its yellow label.
In an English court a man was fined two pounds for contempt after offering payment with no change. A French wife complains of her bookworm husband who spends evenings in study. He quips that if she were a book or almanac he could change her annually.
A fragment discusses dangers of mercury in catarrh ointments and promotes All’s Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney and Co Toledo claiming internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. Mentions testimonials, price 75c per bottle, and warns against drudge sales and unsafe substitutions.
Free prospectus issued by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad written by Edward F. Colburn outlines Utah settlement Mormon Gentile relations natural wonders resources growth of cities and towns. Address requests to 8. K. Hooper Denver Colorado for copies.
The report notes European dominance in Chili trade and cites Canada apple imports to France totaling 300000 dollars last summer and fall. It adds Denmark sent 85000 tons of butter to England in 1904 valued at 45000000 dollars and discusses steel rail negotiations for 1907. It also mentions cattle hides shipped to England for tanning possibly reshipped as leather and provides May coal shipment figures and year to date totals.
Asher Hinds of Maine served as parliamentary clerk to the house of representatives guiding the speaker and earning a reputation as a sharp parliamentary mind in the country.
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