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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1907
Page
2
Compilation of short clips and quotes on schooling, laundry starch advertising, stage life, post office typewriting experiments, a shoe ad jingle, and a Ruskin ideal about public good. Includes a father disputing school attendance, Defiance Starch promotion, and light social quips.
Edward VII maintains a royal kitchen with Juste Menager as chief cook earning 10000 dollars a year. The palace staff includes four master cooks and a retinue, with strict discipline and precise timing for each course. Menager praises women cooks and employs several, stating at least six London women can prepare a kingly dinner.
Washington Frank H Hitchcock the youngest chief clerk in history is set to become secretary to President Roosevelt starting January 1 as Loeb retires to lead a Washington traction firm Cortelyou regards Hitchcock as the ideal reforming official He rose from clerk to assistant postmaster general and later studied law at Columbian while gaining civil service promotions and Court approval
New Orleans reports the first office building in Colon opened for tenants under Isi dore Rich a Central American trader who founded the American Trading company. The 60 by 85 foot lot sits on land owned by the Panama Railroad company and US government, leased in five year terms by location.
The new Colon office building with forty four rooms and two ground floor stores is fully booked before completion. Mr Rich, a veteran in tropical trade, foresaw demand and prepared accordingly for ventures in the tropics.
George Denby a Burlingon county negro convict removed from the state prison to the state insane asylum in Trenton. He imagines himself a living dynamo generating electricity and shouts to be removed from his cell to avoid electrifying the walls and doors. His condition said to stem from drinking Jersey lightning before his November 1901 incarceration for attempted criminal assault.
J W Browning of Ogden Utah a 1011 23d St resident born in 1848 recalls diabetes kidney issues and rheumatic spells five years ago after taking Dean’s Kidney Pills he claims relief and credits continued well being to the remedy at age 75 he notes the product costs 50 cents a box sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY The Cleveland pamphlet mentions Bonner the great cricketer paying tribute to Dr Samuel Johnson with a London celebration in 1885 stating he would rather be such a man than claim cricket triumphs per Youths Companion
A Nebraskan woman describes severe scaly head and neck sores lasting six months after measles. After using doctor's blood remedies and salve with little improvement, she tried Cutiura Remedies and recovered in three weeks. She adds this was seven years ago and she has had no trouble since.
A teacher shares how switching from coffee to Postum Food Coffee cured nervous strain and improved health. She describes initial failure, a second successful preparation, and lasting benefits in the classroom, endorsing Postum as a healthier beverage for children and adults.
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