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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
2
A New York Times interview with rail official Yoakum and a railrand worker cites 1910 era figures on unemployment, wage cuts, and deficits. It notes 1.5 million dependents, a $2 million daily government shortfall, and rail labor's impact on national economy as campaign concerns rise.
Emeralds today largely come from the famed Muaco mines in the Bayaca province on the eastern Andes slope about 70 miles north northwest of Santa Be de Bogota. A second mine named Las Ques lies two days by mule from Muaco.
Edward B. Clark surveys the millinery trade’s effect on seabirds and a conservation push led by the Millinery Merchants' Protective Association. He recounts the Thayer fund, wardens, and stories of market hunters killing herring gulls, Bonaparte gulls, Wilson's terns, and black terns along the Atlantic coast and Great Lakes, noting cruelty and rising campaigns for protection, with money proving more persuasive than rhetoric.
The article explains how a trade mark signals product merit and protects buyers and dealers from inferior goods. It cites the National Lead Company and the Dutch Boy Painter mark as guarantees of purity in White Lead, offering free testing instructions from its New York office.
Mary Bakerddy riffs on faith in medicine while recounting a nurse’s tale about a nervous patient and a milk and biscuit nightcap. A Cape Cod fog anecdote follows, with a farmer describing a cow stuck in fog tunnel and rescued, told in a rustic Philadelphia Ledger tone.
A humorous glance at legislative attempts to regulate courtship and wheedling by women through cosmetics. The piece includes a witty exchange with Mira Pinkle about a dried up man, concluding with an obtuse note on amusing slips in daily hazards and a city damage claim.
An advertisement extols Postum as a consistently flavorful caffeine free coffee substitute. It includes customer letters claiming improved health, fewer headaches, and relief from gall bladder issues, praising Postum for its sameness and appeal and urging readers to try it, with signoff by Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
A German immigrant newly arrived at a wealthy estate attended his first banquet. The wine was weak yet several men nearby were pleased to see him drain the bottles kept for all. After finishing, he joked to the group that he had drunk all their wine and saved them the trouble of drinking what they disliked, suggesting they vote the public tank.
In Cambridge New York Mrs Mary E H Roane recounts a fall that damaged her kidneys caused back and hip pain and disordered secretions. After using Dean's Kidney Pills she reports rapid relief and regained health. The testimonial notes the product sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Montreal mother cites Cuticura as curing three daughters of severe eczema and a plump baby where neck folds bled. She washed heads with Cuticura Soap and applied Cuticura Ointment, noting immediate improvement. The ad also promotes Castoria and other quips about public figures and appliances.
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