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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
2
The piece surveys Easter customs from Aryan sun eggs to Persian myth of earth hatchings, Jewish Passover links, and Tyrolese egg traditions. It notes Italian priest blessings, home altars with candles, and families savoring hard boiled eggs as protection against disease.
A Third Assistant Postmaster General states publishers may renew subscriptions for a reasonable period. If not expressly renewed after paid term within a year, weeklies drop from the legitimate list and cannot be mailed at the second class rate, only at a higher transient rate prepaid. Credit extensions are considered but affect eligibility for second class rates. Provisional express renewals may be mailed if renewal is genuine and not used to evade rules.
Mrs. Sarah A. Cole of Dover Delaware shares her experience using Chamberlain's Pain Balm to ease rheumatic pains after years of suffering. She reports quick relief within a bottle and notes neighbors also benefited. The product is sold by A J White.
A Devoe Company letter explains three gallons saved equal twelve to fifteen dollars earned. Mr Hanford Platt of Bridgeport ordered twenty eight gallons and returned three. A painter warned it would take fifteen days. Hubbell and Wade Co. reported broad use of Devoe and claimed other paints are poor by comparison.
The Cleveland Southwestern and Columbus Railway announces departure times from Crestyn to Seville Chippewa Lake Medina Berea and Public Square with multiple daily trains to Cleveland Wooster and onward connections to Linndale Purtis Springs Elyria Amherst Lorain Grafton Oberlin Wellington Berlin Heights Norwalk. Special Limiteds include Cleveland and Wooster services with through runs to Wooster on Saturdays and additional limited departures from Public Square Cleveland with various morning and evening times.
A French scientist proposes branding murderers with a red hot iron and publicly stamping an M on their foreheads as an irreversibly marked punishment. He argues guillotine and life imprisonment fail to reform or deter and branding would expose the crime for life.
In 1888 a hunter found a ram's horn imbedded in a yellow pine. The horn, almost straight and soaked with pitch, measures ten inches at the base and thirty inches long. The tree rings show 213 years of age and 183 rings indicate the horned sheep’s captivity. Jason Hilder, of Paisley Oxre, now documents the curious artifact.
A new automatic road chart unrolls with the car to guide travelers in France. It synchronizes with speed and turns, and an electric bell warns 300 meters before sharp turns. A second device records distance traveled, all shown by wheel-connected gearing.
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