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Newspaper
The Greenville Journal
Location
Greenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
6
Gen Thomas Rose’s daring Libby Prison escape is recounted alongside notes on Wood street paving advances and Switzerland’s liquor monopoly. The piece blends heroic war memory with urban infrastructure changes and social policy outcomes, highlighting Rose’s tunnel escape, the prison watch, and efforts to improve public works and temperance reform.
A. J. Van Duren a retired artillery sergeant recalls guarding Jefferson Davis at Fort Monroe near the war’s end. Davis wore shackles then kept to himself, smoking a brown pipe and greeting guards with a simple good morning. The veteran emphasizes the prisoner’s dignified conduct and the unusual order to ban contact. He notes Davis’s calm presence and the guard’s shared restraint during captivity.
Rogers W. Cox of Scranton recalls enlistment in the Army of the Potomac in 1861, service through Chancellorsville to Hatcher's Run, a perilous picket, and a fire rescue near the lines. He describes wounds, the flag’s peril, and carrying the new Wilkes-Barre flag while under fire. Includes reflections on Lent's origins and names across languages.
Johann Durm’s corner tavern faces ruin as Hoffman's free lunch ploy angers him. Frederika, a niece brought from New York, is hired as cook to monitor costs. She reports meat and drink purchases with figures that Durm cannot comprehend, threatening the business and exposing the conflict.
The Durms rely on Onkel Carl the Hamburg relative to audit their finances. He eats and drinks heavily while calculating ledgers, alternately predicting the man’s wealth or ruin. Frederika hints at marriage plans as the family debates a drastic move to end the ruse.
J D Rees of the Calcutta Statesman recalls living beside small forests where tigers are tracked by birds and apes. Villagers know the maneaters, value a trusted hunter, and rewards rarely curb hunting while endangering deer pig stalkers and cattle. Honor the tree that gives you shelter.
Advice on choosing painting materials focuses on testing White Lead purity. Instructions describe a blowpipe test to reveal metallic lead and warn against adulterated leads, promoting National Lead Company from New York for free blowpipe and a booklet featuring the Dutch Boy Painter as a purity guarantee.
A fragment from a period piece and a health ad featuring Postum Coffee. It mixes dialogues about romance in Morocco and a French legionary, temperance musings, gossip snippets, and a testimonial claiming Postum cured coffee related eye trouble and digestive issues. The piece blends fiction with an advertising narrative for Postum Go Battle Creek Mich.
A southern newspaper staffer argues the return to farming is driven by leaders shaped by rural youth. He notes financial turmoil spurs statesmen to seek soil, cites Canada land investments from 10 to 15 dollars per acre, 160 acre homesteads, and government agents offering details on grants and rail access, ending with a Scots anecdote about a breakfast cheese.
A dubious pasteboard blend from Battle Creek offers Cardiol, pepsin essence, and ginger syrup as a cure for digestive disorders. Claims include rapid restoration of digestion, increased strength, and relief from insomnia and nervous symptoms. Noted as a favorite among druggists, though skeptics doubt its safety and efficacy.
An assortment of offered cures and home health claims mingles with advice on interior design. The piece includes a German American bio chemist sales pitch for a blood purifying tonic, a Charlottesville station anecdote, and domestic decor guidance on wall colors and lighting. It also features a whimsical exchange about a nurse and child, and brief notes on catarrh remedies and perfumery ads.
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