26 Dec 1907
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Newspaper
The Greenville Journal
Location
Greenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1907
Page
1
A Greenville attorney argues the saloon will likely continue rather than vanish soon. He cites high license revenue, church involvement, and social demand as factors propping up liquor sales. The piece discusses county local option, women’s suffrage, and broader temperance challenges with quotes from speakers and related notes.
The article notes shifts in the House committee leadership, replacing Fowler dominated banking and currency with more conservative figures, and reorganizing agriculture to curb department funding. Speaker Cannon seeks broader legislation with Senate agreement, while Wilson and the administration push for army and navy pay increases to aid recruitment amid wage gaps.
Scott's Emulsion is Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites prepared so that it is easily digested by little folks. The ad claims a sturdy rosy baby and promotes sales at druggists with price points of 50 cents and 1 dollar.
Secretary Taft returns from across the Atlantic to a remarkable improvement in the conditions surrounding his presidential boom, returning filled with enthusiasm for progress observed during the journey.
Read our clubbing offers announcing two good papers for the price of one. The note promotes a clubbing list and urges readers to take advantage of the bargain.
The Viscount Suzu Aoki, Japan's ambassador, answers slowly, gazing into interviewers eyes as he translates questions from English to German, then to Japanese, and back again before replying. He speaks German fluently and knows some Japanese, but translates through multiple languages, delaying his responses. Saturday Evening Post evidence notes he requires careful wording to avoid idiomatic errors.
At age twelve Keir Hardie the Labour member of Parliament could neither read nor write. He learned reading from books and notices in shop windows and taught himself writing and shorthand. By twenty two he left the pits to become secretary of the miners union and two years later subeditor of a local newspaper in Cumnock, the place of his current home.
In Quetta Baluchistan a man suffers from Afghan justice after deserters from the ameer’s forces vanished. The ameer ordered the nose of the deserter’s brother cut, prompting a hospital protest. Officials clarified the punishment was an unfortunate mistaken identity.
An issue in London notes British writers may adopt American names or subjects to compete with American publishers. The commentary implies pressure on lesser ranked British novelists to seek broader appeal. Also mentioned is a terrier named Foll with an artificial tail attached by strap and buckle, able to wag in any direction.
A Harpers Weekly quip mocks William Mckinley era politics as Uncle Joe Cannon dislikes talkative barbers. A colored barber asks to trim ends while Cannon quips about clipping from the middle.
Practical home guidance covers pasteurizing milk with clean bottles and wool stoppers, maintaining 158 degrees before cooling, plus storage for two to three days. It also offers sprain treatment, milk washing methods, clothes washing with a buffalo-manufactured drainer, and simple cooking aids such as browning crusts and preventing leakage with sour or molasses additions.
Mothers should avoid one hair style long term and change dressing to keep parts from widening and hair healthy. A simple recipe for hominy blancmange instructs rolling three tablespoons of hominy in milk with a pinch of salt, adding milk as it thickens, cooking until firm, cooling, sweetening, and flavoring with vanilla, then moulding and serving with jam or stewed fruit.
A period piece suggests home remedies from a kitchen guide. It advises boiling tough chicken with common jelly to tenderize meat, steaping a red face in very hot water, mopping with a fine towel to dry, and curing hiccups by drinking through a towel stretched over a glass of water.
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