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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1906
Page
6
A Norfolk citizen describes living on 1.55 a month to prove nuts as a diet. He says in a month he gained two pounds and felt better, eating eleven pounds of brazils and pecans, a pound of raisins and roasted peanuts for 1S cents, sharing some with friends. He notes the experiment followed reading about nuts as food.
A 2000 year old miner mummy was recovered from a copper mine area in Chile raily. The body and clothing remain remarkably preserved with coarse sackcloth and two mallets, one granite and one iron stone, found tied with thongs to bent sticks. The find highlights extraordinary preservation of organic and wooden materials.
Dr George F Butler of Alma Springs Sanatorium outlines health rules from How to Live stressing appetite control, wholesome dieting, and proper digestion. He links health to tissue change waste removal and new material supply, urging regular habits water exercise and caution with laxatives, plus optimism and kindness. In Washington Dr Mortensen studies fish at the National Museum while notes on perseverance and talent conclude the piece.
A Pittsburgh reader claims Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People cured pimples boils and stomach pains after two years of illness. He details dizziness back pain heart discomfort and skin eruptions before using the remedy. He says blood is now good and urges others with bad blood or stomach trouble to try the pills. The ad notes price six boxes for $2.50 from Dr Williams Medicine Company.
Four amateur sleuths searched for a diamond ring lost over a week earlier near Westbury New York. Tiffany & Co offered a $1,000 reward. The ring belonged to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, a wedding gift valued at $20,000. The quartet borrowed the ring, used a bull’s eye lantern, and located the gem in the Whitney lawn after a brief, organized sweep. They split the reward equally.
Marblehead Mass residents protest after a town authority allowed a photograph of the life size painting Yankee Doodle or Spirit of ’Té to be taken from Abbott hall. The work, gifted in 1880 by Gen John H Devereux Cleveland, depicts two drummers and a fifer and is valued at 20000 dollars.
Five Cornell students led by George V. Nayamyth Walter Manning Ladd William Tudor Price A H Candee and Manuel Marco Romero sail from New York on the Celtic for a three month journey through England France Germany Holland and Austria with a possible Russian swing. Three will work passages as assistant engineers and all will sell accounts of the trip to newspapers. Romero a Peruvian will represent Lima and the party expects about 10 000 miles of travel assisted by special factory admission cards secured through Director Smith of Sibley College.
In Rogers Arkansas Miss Lucile Corley of Centerton and Mr A H Hemphill of Chanute Kansas wed after a strawberry box card found by a berry purchaser led to a correspondence. The match, begun two years earlier via a card in a shipper box, sparked a Ozarks visit and a successful courtship. The anecdote notes a spring wedding boom for the card method.
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