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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
6
A real life Romeo causes chaos in an Arkansas Juliet garden as a gun is fired from the pantry window. The incident prompts a broader reflection on romance in life and fiction, while a public campaign lists birds believed to eat boll weevils in order of effectiveness.
Voters favor a constitutional amendment requiring one year of residence for legal residency and court eligibility, ending six months. Laws are to ensure all divorce cases are heard at regular terms and end secrecy behind publicity. The reform, likely to close “divorce mills,” takes effect in December.
The Mississippi Audubon Society launches a campaign to awaken public sentiment for protecting insectivorous birds to aid boll weevil destruction. President Hemingway and officers urge enforcing laws protecting birds and promoting farmer cooperation to curb boll weevil progress at low cost.
Wertz received an old clock and hung it in his bedroom. That night he awoke to repeated cuckoo sounds and finally stopped the clock after it rang to 2 AM. The next day Wertz junior discovers the clock stopped, and Wertz senior offers to let Ford keep it if he winds it every morning.
The Chronicle cites Dr. J. J. McElree of the Missouri State Board of Health presenting a remedy said to prevent or cure scarlet fever and smallpox in twelve hours. The article notes the recipe, alongside a claim of wide historical use and effectiveness.
A historical note prescribes dissolving zinc in boiled and cooled soft water with sugar then taking a teaspoonful every hour. It claims smallpox or scarlet fever will disappear in 12 hours and urges communities to enforce the treatment to prevent pest cases, advising dose adjustments for children.
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