Coal Trade Advice From M H Jones
A brief note from M H Jones offers practical coal selling tips and cost saving advice. The message emphasizes simple, actionable guidance for customers seeking to reduce expenses while obtaining coal.
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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1906
Page
6
A brief note from M H Jones offers practical coal selling tips and cost saving advice. The message emphasizes simple, actionable guidance for customers seeking to reduce expenses while obtaining coal.
William H. Allen a long prominent Omaha and Kansas City educator died in Edgemont South Dakota where he served as superintendent after a sudden illness. He had told his family of a dream a year earlier that mapped his life and foretold a sickness at his fifty second year and death on his fifty second birthday. he recalled the vision with refreshingly calm humor and then fell ill on his birthday.
Mr Allen, visiting his school, returned home feeling ill then sat reading the paper when he collapsed dead. Doctors ruled apoplexy as the cause. A psychic friend recalled a dream from twenty years earlier about Allen’s infant son warning him, claims the son spoke from beyond to prepare him for death a year prior.
Mrs Alice Wilbur a nearly seventy year old widow married Benjamin Hitchcock nineteen, in East Meriden. Neighbors had tracked their brief ardent courtship. The ceremony was conducted by a Methodist minister and followed by a reception described as a Vesuvius party.
The piece argues for plain language over elaborate terms. It urges using everyday words to maintain clarity and honesty, warns against slang and overprecision, and promotes conveying truth through simple expression rather than minute factual exactness.
The Pittsburg Press advises hot water for fresh fruit stains and notes grass stains pose a problem like mildew. A hot tartaric acid solution may lighten stains to a pale brown, which rinses out in hot soapsuds. Mildew resists treatment, scorch marks respond only to sun exposure, and ink should be treated with milk promptly to avoid permanent staining.
An advertisement extols Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as a harmless remedy for head ache neuralgia and various pains from the Pain family ailments. Mrs Jon Murrill of Peru Indiana endorses their long use and effectiveness.
Housekeeping guidance covers kerosene safety for daylight handling and avoiding flames, lamp filling with wick care, and preventing leaks from loose joints. Also included is a method to locate and destroy ant nests using sugar, kerosene, or boiling water, with steps to access nests behind walls if needed.
Mrs Jennie Duncan of Haynesville Maine at 70 credits Electric Bitters with curing chronic dyspepsia of 20 years standing and making her feel young again. The tonic reputedly treats stomach and liver diseases blood disorders and debility with a price noted as five dollars for Hayden's dealer.
The Washington Star argues rest is not a natural skill but a cultivated habit. It says true rest comes from changing scene and activity, not lounging or idle sleep, and that even weary minds benefit from engaging work with freedom from responsibility.
A guide describes renovating a black skirt using strained soap solution in hot water, soaking and agitating, rinsing, wringing, line drying, and ironing on the wrong side. It also covers a cucumber punch recipe mixing cucumber, sugar, claret, and maresching for a chilled drink served in glasses.
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