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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1910
Page
6
Mrs John Way of Independence Kansas reports years of kidney trouble with back pain swollen feet and vision spots before recovery using Doans Kidney Pills. She credits the remedy for her cure at advanced age and notes the product is available from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo.
An assortment of vintage adverts and quotes praising Castora for infants, Coca Cola cooling and quenching thirst, and a brief courtroom anecdote featuring Lord Ellenborough. The Coca Cola appeal includes a 1910 booklet offer with Casey at the Bat and baseball records from Atlanta, Ga.
A doctor recalls attempting hypnotherapy on a gravely ill patient by making him believe a large sun on the ceiling would heal him. The plan appeared to work as the patient improved until the doctor found him dead. He died not from the cure but from sunstroke, the doctor notes.
At a London Authors club dinner Mr Owen Seaman and Mr Waller Emanuel recalled a dentist with the sharpest humor for a painful gag. A patient refused gas. the dentist pulled a tooth, showed it at the window, and laughed as the pain continued. A quip ends with the blunt pun about the wrong tooth.
The piece tests understanding of the term Hie sentence in a night school setting. It presents a dialogue where a teacher asks for the meaning and provides a practical example. A pupil answers by declaring a husband and wife, illustrating a misunderstanding of the term.
Tom and Caleb Gordon maneuver through labor strife at Gordonia to secure an Indiana water pipe contract. Tom strategizes with partners, facing threats of violence, while awaiting military support as the plant rebuilds toward a larger future.
Arden welcomes Tom Gordon and companions returning from a long voyage while the Sultan of Ternate and the resident officials stage a formal audience. The piece then details a lavish palace ceremony with torchlit processions, hand washing, tea and cakes, and a mix of dancers and musicians, highlighting antique customs and colonial observations.
Dr Edwin B Slosson editor and authority on American university life argues in Cape and Gown that literary professors enjoy easier careers than scientists since they need fewer facts. He notes professors rarely face serious consequences for errors and mockingly discusses the modern lecture scene and audience.
Commissioner Pearson of the state department of agriculture announces completed arrangements with Secretary Wilson in Washington for two scouts trained to search for gypsy and brown tail moths. They will assist New York in preventing the pests' entry into the state.
Joseph Guest, a retired merchant, owns a horse founded May 6 1869 and named Samuel J. Tilden after a ride to Middletown Delaware. The animal, once owned by Thomas Van Dyke near Kennedyville, has been compared with other aging horses but no elder find has been confirmed. Guest preserves the horse in pastures and good stables, hoping for peace in old age.
Multi millionaire Alexander R Peacock who grew wealthy from the Carnegie melon venture buys a 60000 dollar Plum township farm to raise chickens and eggs. He plans a steam heated, electric lit chicken house with the finest incubators and will raise all needed supplies on site.
An early 20th century police story recalls Patrolman William Kelly refused to wear leggings that did not fit his calves, insisting on proper sizing to maintain respect and duty. Police chief Brown blocked duty while awaiting appropriately sized leggings.
The London common council education committee resolved to issue a circular titled Health Hints to Parents. It warns there are no excuses for dirty children, flags sore throats as suspicious, notes windows may be opened to ventilate, and states under certain circumstances if four shut mouths can save four lives. The debate over the matter was lengthy.
In Villepreux les Clayes a field near a recent train crash yielded pigeons caged among scattered grain. The birds were hurled about 900 yards by the impact, survived by peeking through the bars, and fed again once released.
Walker Everhart of Buntington Pa captured a five pound trout measuring 24 inches in Spruce Creek. He jumped into the stream to land the prize with help from a nearby fishing club.
Delegates visiting Berlin schools in the German capital compared conditions with England and found German children better shod and clothed. They noted few barefoot pupils and part of Strasburg’s poorest quarter observed.
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