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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
3
A vivid travel sketch of Atami Japan describes orange groves warm winds and thrashing seas. It contrasts the geysers caves and camphor tree with river and canal boatmen noting tradition and changing progress along the coast near Tokyo.
Berlin reports Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of the Kaiser, will marry Princess Adelaide Schleswig-Holstein Sonderberg Glucksburg. The couple, both in their early 20s, plan a ceremony tied to imperial celebrations with lavish escort and traditional pomp.
London readers report a Thunderer notice seeking a man to demonstrate an old English rack in a star chamber style torture display. The ad notes a short man would be used, with limbs bound to a bed and a revolving crank slowly stretching the victim to extract a confession.
A Sunday school lesson from 1908 analyzes Absalom's rebellion against King David, citing scriptural passages from 2 Samuel 10 1 12 and Exodus 20 12. It outlines Absalom’s heritage beauty and priestly power dynamics, plus political factors that favored upheaval in an aging, busy David era.
A stranger asks for a cheap room near the bar, and a clerk offers a 976 top story as the best possible rate. The exchange occurs in a setting described as parlor Oz-N XF Weekly with the guest seeking convenient proximity.
A vintage advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a thirty year standard remedy for female complaints including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and pains. It invites women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
A comic tale centers on Mark and a dinner table conversation with Mrs Chopsticks and the Professor. The Professor recalls recalling a memory about Willie and mentions seeing the boy fall down a well around ten o'clock, creating a humorous chain of absent mindedness.
A pastor spots Mose Fowler with a long fishing rod and questions his intent. Fowler explains the sermon inspired him to borrow the rod to tutor his thirteen children and stand firm in his duties, promising to return it with a clear conscience.
A New York woman writes of her 71 year old grandmother who was invalid for 18 years with what doctors called stomach and bowel consumption. After starting Grape-Nuts, she kept it down, strengthened, and recovered without further medicine, astonishing the doctor. The ad ends with the line There’s a Reason and references Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
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