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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1905
Page
6
A rare universal service case in France involves three triplet brothers from a poor eight child family. The trio, a mason, a painter, and an agricultural laborer, are drafted together, raising questions about who should be exempt if any. Their mother cannot determine which brother is oldest or youngest.
A 2000 pound swordfish killed Au guste Sylvia aboard the fishing sloop Klondike out of Gloucester. Sylvia entered a dory to fasten a line and was struck when the fish broke its sword, throwing him overboard. In oilskins he could not swim and sank before aid arrived.
In St Cyrus England brides are measured for legacy gifts tied to a charity from a village donor. The annual ceremony allocates about 30 pounds in interest split into five payments: meals for the poor and equal shares to the oldest youngest tallest and shortest brides married in the parish church. The event draws the whole community as a holiday.
The article describes metal envelopes designed to protect eggs while a hen sits to hatch them. The envelopes consist of two joined sections forming a transverse center with a bayonet joint. Perforations allow air flow and heat transfer, and the envelopes are removed as hatching nears.
A Bath Maine family puzzled by a strange violin found by a Finlander who offered the instrument as security for a $2 loan to a Gardiner man. It bore the mark Antonie Stradivarius 1736 and the owner said it had been in the family for generations.
A relic passed to Mrs. L. H. Morse of Petertown Connecticut a parchment certificate of membership in the Society of the Cincinnati. Experts deem the document genuine bearing the signatures of George Washington president and H Knox secretary.
A lone oak near Lake County shore stands on stilts as erosion exposes roots keeping the tree upright. The lake waters have washed away soil, leaving the tree supported by the exposed root mass. The report notes unusual lake conditions with half the lake open and ice being cut at the southern end.
A funeral service was held in Goeschenen Switzerland for a man who disappeared eighteen years earlier when he was engulfed by a glacier. The remains were recovered from the glacier after a long delay.
Sidney Justus a 78 year old fruit dealer from Mentor Ohio says Dean's Kidney Pills cured a decade long kidney trouble with backache rheumatic pains dropsical swelling and painful urinary passages. He notes relief after a half box and a permanent cure after three boxes. Trial free address Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. For sale by dealers at 50 cents.
"Isn't the climate rather bad in your part of the country?" "Yes," answered the Central American. "But it doesn't make any difference. We are so busy with revolutions that nobody has time to notice the climate."
Informational advertisement claiming Mother Gray a nurse at a New York children's home products cure colds in 24 hours feverishness headaches stomach troubles teething disorders and worm destruction. Druggists sell for 20 cents sample mailed free Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
Little, Brown & Co introduces a popular cloth bound edition of A Rose of Normandy by William R A Wilson in their fiction line. Wilson also plans a romance titled A Knot of Blue for spring publication. Defiance Starch markets 16 ounce packs at the same price as 12 ounce rivals. A great great granddaughter of Miles Standish died recently in Brooklyn while millions of Standish descendants remain.
Government statistics show the South and Southern Railway territory offer the best conditions for general farming stock raising fruit and crops. The note outlines advantages for home seekers and promises further details in free publications.
A club patron claims loss of £20000 in a pinochle game. The article notes the event but does not specify the game's exact duration or number of years involved.
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