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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
3
A fragmentary note cites an ointment named Dean's Ointment as curing eczema after long irritation. The readable text includes a name likely of a local official or witness, Withens, Commissioner, and mentions statistics from August. The limited legible material provides no verifiable dates or places.
Prives off a terror claim for a winter and spring pneumonia cure. Anecdotes from Mrs. George W. Place of Vermont praise Drings Sew Discovery for coughs colds and croup. Guaranteed for bronchial issues. 20 cents to 1 dollar. Trial bottle free.
A Lewisburg West Virginia resident praises Electric Bitters for curing ten years of stomach trouble and rheumatism. He claims the remedy fits perfectly and guarantees satisfaction. Sold for 59 cents at Beall and Steele Drug Co with an advertisement.
An ad taunts readers about sickness as a secret terror facing workers. It promotes Foley Kidney Pills as the best remedy for kidney and bladder troubles, claiming they restore health and strengthen the body while protecting earning capacity. Beall & Steele advertise Ady.
A Michigan resident from Schatter, Phil Disor tent, says a bad cough left him weak and sleepless until Foley's Money and Tar Compound relieved it. He notes he slept soundly after using the remedy, as advertised by Beall & Steele.
The ad highlights a tired busy woman plagued by kidney and bladder disorders and back pain. It touts Foley Kidney Pills as the cure and promotes Dr Thomas Felectic Cubb for croup in children, with prices 25c and 56c at drugstores.
An advertisement touts Burdock Blood Bitters as improving digestion and blood purity, claiming impure blood makes one prone to disease. It promotes the product as a remedy available at drug stores for $1.00.
An advertisement describes a $3.00 flexible leather Bible in Divinity Circuit style Morocco binding with red under gold edges, gold stamping, thin Bible paper. It includes Old and New Testaments plus study helps, maps in color, illustrations, questions and bonus answers. Six consecutive coupons offered.
Prepared by the State School Commissioner, this list accompanies the December 7 examination for elementary school certificates. It asks about Braddock's defeat, ratification of the U S Constitution, Alien and Sedition acts, Jacksonian issues, presidential qualifications, Texas annexation, how a bill becomes a law after a veto, and the electoral college with Ohio's electors.
A set of arithmetic problems from a historical newspaper includes computing bushels per acre from a wheat field, longitude difference from time in San Francisco and Rochester, profit percentage on paper, acres reaped by a reaper in ten hours, milk to butter yield from cream fractions, fair rent shares for three persons with varying months and cows, bank discount on a note dated 1 July 1912, and a clock drawing showing minute spaces between hands at twelve minutes before seven.
Continue four lines for each quoted line from (a) to (d) and identify authors and their source selections. Address sources for Tennyson, top productions, and how he gathered material. List four prominent American historians and their histories. Quote at least four lines from Burns Riley Holmes. Name five American novels read and the favorite. Identify key characters in The Merchant of Venice. Briefly summarize Evan Allen may be a misspelling of Evan Gil ain?
An itemized list poses tasks: abbreviation meanings synonyms and antonyms for several words word sound illustration orthographic parsing two-syllable word parsing illustration of the letter group sounds and spelling of a long list of challenging terms.
The excerpt asks which animals were domesticated by Native Americans before Europeans arrived and requests Carver's described stages of agricultural development. It also queries England and France contributions to agricultural improvement and mentions nitrogen in commercial fertilizer manufacture.
A set of prompts asking sources of fertilizers Potash and Phosphoric acid causes of wilting after transplant crop rotation reasons and a three year plan for the corn belt guidance on selecting and caring for seed corn inquiry into county prizes in the State Corn Growing Contest and a summary of agricul ture teaching in the Third Division over three months
Based on Graves Great Educators of Three Centuries the inquiry covers Milton's core questions and opinions, Bacon's new method circa 1600 ARD. It asks about management of County Institutes funding sources enumeration purposes who is enumerated, schoolhouse conditions and improvements, a tentative recitation program for an eight grade school, beliefs on corporal punishment with reasons, and involvement with the O T R C plus education readings in the past year.
The questions cover how salt lakes form and why most lakes are fresh water. They compare lake formation processes, evaporation, and inflow factors. The set asks also about day and night lengths, Appalachian Mountains locations and directions, major coal states and hardwood forests, England’s chief industries and key cities, Balkan States and Turkey’s surrounding borders, Ohio’s area and population, Cleveland’s population, Ohio counties, and the counties containing specific cities.
Defines the main benefits of grammar study and tests parts of speech for Byron quotation. Includes questions on analysis versus synthesis, shall versus will usage for grades, verb mood and tenses, copulative verb definitions, and list of participles for four verbs.
The questions request multiple educational viewpoints on physiology including when to begin instruction, skin structure, nails relation to skin, respiration objectives and organs, lachrymal glands and their functions, definitions and treatments for fracture dislocation and sprain, distinctions between speech and voice and their relation to hearing, heart rate and pulse factors, and the ventilation and sanitary conditions of a school building.
In a rural schooling context the prompt lists questions about Indians and agriculture. It asks about stages of development in modern agriculture described by Carver, England’s contributions, corn-growing contests, crop manures, rotation types in the district, and glossary terms plus recommended books and papers on agriculture and methods to improve rural social life.
Edward Rosicki transfers parcel No 6 EF Cattrells and Add Amsterdam for 675 dollars. Hitie Giles sells 223 acres in Island Creek township to Joseph J. Waggoner for one dollar. Virginia Welday conveys 70 acres in Wayne Two to John Weldas for 3500 dollars. George M. Taylor and others transfer 50 acres in Island Creek to Harry Kirkpatrick for 3500 dollars. Union Cemetery Association Richmond lists Harry H. Kirkpatrick related cemetery matter.
New York money on call at 4 percent. Prime mercantile paper 6 percent. Sterling at 4.8465 for demand. Government bonds steady. Grain provisions and live stock notes from Cleveland and Toledo show varied crop prices with wheat at 1.09 and oats around 36 cents. Cattle, hogs, and sheep prices listed across several markets with noted ranges and late-session values.
A sequence of real estate conveyances showing land and lot transfers in Cree Creek, Tiltonville, Toronto, and Dillonvale with prices from 1 to 10,677.15. Notable entries include John Mecheve to Joseph May for 500, Samuel Rooke from John May, John Wheeler to Ralph Haynes for 129-42-100 acres, Wilford Hudson to John Aken for Lot 12 Locust Pack, and Charles Broman transfers. The note ends with the phrase Revenge is a two edged sword.
The fragmentary text mentions an unusual phrase and suggests a discovery related to a person or place but provides no clear context or complete names or events to identify a specific news item.
An old time patent remedy ad claims a plot to distress by forcing non use of Dr King s New Life Pills. It asserts the product will restore health and good feelings by stimulating stomach liver and bowels. Advisement for Beall and Steele Drug Co.
Attorney C A Vail announces removal of his law office with E Jr Erskine Esq and will meet clients and friends at the new Sie-2wead-2tw address.
A small advertising notice promotes Dean's Regulats as a simple bowel movement aid. It claims easy natural relief from constipation and urges readers to purchase the 23c product at all stores.
A 1912 local assessment sets pike taxes at 6 mills on all property within multiple toll road districts. Additional levies include 7 mills in the Unionport area, 4 mills on several free turnpikes, and 6 and 3 mill rates across Bloomfield, Smithfield, and Portland boundries.
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