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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
2
The Sheridan News issued every Friday morning by News Printing Co edits by J H McMurtry details subscription terms one year six months and three months pricing with postal classification and mailing note for Sheridan Indiana.
Post election reflections note no special honor for the groundhog this year. With the primary over and votes recounted, plans turn to spring business. The piece mentions the American hen as a key factor in profits and a rare Sheridan presidential elector honor, while weather is blamed for boosting blacksmiths and rubber dealers.
Citizens warned to invest in non taxable securities to avoid higher taxes and potential assessor scrutiny. Financial guidance urges prudent planning to minimize tax exposure and stabilize finances amid rising assessments.
The article notes a poor ice crop this season and urges readers to prepare accordingly, warning of potential shortages and advising cautious management of resources.
The board urges action to require front street business properties to remove snow and ice. While most merchants comply, a few do not, so the board seeks steps to enforce cleaning of Main Street walkways.
The eminent Robert Mantell will headline a full week at English's Opera House Indianapolis February 10th week. Audiences including teachers and professionals pack venues as Mantell showcases Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Othello and Richard II in a season framing him as a potential second Booth. Critics hail his rise from New York to Chicago and Boston as a premier classic actor.
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For rheumatic sufferers the quick relief from pain is offered by Chamberlains Pain Balm. It eases rheumatism sciatica lame back lumbago and seated and muscular pains. For sale at Elliott's drug store.
The city has five Belgian sheep dogs on the police force, trained in Ghent, Belgium, to aid in capturing criminals in lonely spots. Lt Wakefield led the training, proving dogs respond to uniforms, not individuals, and suggesting more U.S. dogs may join the force if proven effective.
The piece notes boomerang throwing as a growing pastime in the United States, England, and Australia. Dealers stock boomerangs like tennis rackets, though mastering the throw requires skill, wind study, and specific handling to make it return.
About twenty of her close friends gathered Tuesday Feb. 4 to honor her 16th anniversary. They presented two pretty and useful gifts she appreciated, and all reported a good time while wishing her many happy returns.
The passage lists shipboard terms drawn from animals and marine objects, including Flemish horse for a footrope, lizard for a tripping rope, hounds for a mast part, bull rope for hauling spars, cathead for the bow projection, cat for the anchor tackle, fish for securing tackle, leech for sail edge, dolphin striker a spar under the bowsprit, doe's ear a furled sail projection, snake for rope joint, and jackass a plugball to seal hull openings.
A 1815 French pamphlet recounts Napoleon’s final days before Elba. He paces Fontainebleau gardens with violet boutonnières amid talks with Duc de Bassano and General Bertraysé on resistance versus exile. A grenadier named Choudieu is noted in the scene.
A Boston psychologist notes a jailer turned janitor who, while attending lectures, habitually counts the audience. His years as an eastern prison warden left him with a mental jail yard image, tallying people to know if all are there. The cadence of exact numbers reveals ingrained counting behavior.
White Plymouth Rock cockerels for sale at $1 each. Contact G. R. McMurtry at RR 23.
A reader's note advises asking a doctor for the medical term bronchitis when a chest cold persists. It also asks whether Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is prescribed for this disease and emphasizes keeping in close touch with a family physician.
H B Wiles scheduled sale at his Sheridan area residence on February 11 1908 listing horses cattle hogs and equipment with nine month credit over five dollars. C B Pierce holds a second sale February 18 at his Sheridan area farm offering horses cows brood sows seed oats hay and farming gear with nine month credit on larger bills.
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