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Newspaper
Sandersville Herald
Location
Sandersville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
7
Trustees of the Georgia Baptist Orphans Home appeal for public support to care for about 150 children in Hapeville. On October 3rd and October 8th citizens are urged to contribute to feeding clothing housing and teaching. Contributions should be sent to J J Bennett Secretary and Treasurer.
A Warrenton resident describes nearly dying from kidney trouble then being cured after taking three bottles of Stuart's Buchu and Juniper. The letter urges others with backache and swollen feet to try the remedy and asks readers to request a free sample.
A Pittsburg Gazette Times piece surveys fish based remedies from cod liver oil to eel fat cures and eel skin charms. It notes a dwarfed modern acceptance of cod liver oil while recounting beliefs like drowning a trout in milk for epilepsy and a garter of eelskin preventing rheumatism.
The author argues judicial decapitation used the sword rather than the ax before 1483 with no block, noting victims knelt meekly and a putlog may have supported the neck. He cites Hastings’ execution and a later switch to the ax, referencing contemporaries and John Cade era letters.
The London Standard reports on hair elasticity able to stretch one third of its length and return. Dr. Pincus notes growth slows after patches are cut, with no faster growth on patches. Hair lengths range from twenty two to forty five inches. The piece also covers beetle mysteries noted by Rev Theodore Wood about a tiny brown flat beetle in primrose flowers with unknown life stages.
A Washington Star quip notes the value of making enemies to succeed in life and jokes about a baseball umpire. Delineator humor shows Mrs. K recounting Adam and Eve to her children and a toddler’s wish to rent the Garden of Eden when the Adamses relocate.
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