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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1907
Page
2
A 19th century warning from The Youth's Companion highlights overheating and poor ventilation as factors in illness. It notes crowded rooms, stale air, and coal odor as hazards, urging daily fresh air exchange and a simple window technique to improve airflow without drafts.
The piece surveys bacteria in sewage treatment and traces long family lines in U S military and naval service. It highlights how microbes transform waste to clean water and lists distinguished generations of Lees, Porters, and other families with officers across army and navy.
The line hints that the Duke of Marlborough received 900 a year for refusing to be decent, leaving Count Boni de Castellane likely envying Vander’s marriage. The remark frames high society calculations, personal pride, and shifting fortunes.
A historical essay traces how military service often runs in families from colonial days to the present, detailing figures like Oliver Hazard Perry and the Selfridges, and noting how cadets and midshipmen frequently had fathers or uncles who served. It discusses the enduring aristocracy created by service and the links between lineage, honor, and naval and army ranks.
A London bibliophile John Loveday described a hidden 1626 Cenel edition holding a Shakespearean poem. The volume sold for 10000 dollars with the best copy in Dodleian and a rare Richard II quarto noted as a prior discovery in Missenden. The find moved to America, following years of collector interest.
Martin an Ohio man who owns extensive mining properties in Alaska asserts he will give 509000 dollars a year to the cause of prohibition.
The New Zealand justice minister introduced a habitual criminals and offenders bill. It allows detention in a reformatory after multiple convictions for assault, wounding, robbery, or burglary, or after six vagrancy convictions. Discharge requires court recommendation, and detained offenders must work with wages credited for dependents.
In Orwell Oswego county New York a granite and marble monument reproduces a Redfield lumber mill at one inch to the foot showing saws carriages rollers skids and logs. A second item notes Joseph Mowbray escaping a fatal chimney accident at Westwood church Kalkaska with lightning striking after his ascent.
The article notes more than 11 million mail items in the United States last year were misdirected or undecipherable. Many reached dead letter offices where some were opened to learn the sender’s address, but in numerous cases no address could be found and the mail remained dead.
A discussion among coffee importers promotes Postum Food Coffee as a healthier alternative. The passage notes physicians warn that stimulant drinks like coffee and whiskey irritate tissues and cause disease, while eliminating the stimulant for ten days and using Postum may relieve nervous, digestive, and other ailments.
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