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Newspaper
The Greenville Journal
Location
Greenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
5
Local items from Greenville Ohio include visits by Mildred Bishop and Lucy Rosser, regional travelers, illness notes, and weddings. The week features a ball game victory 6 to 3 for Speaker against New Madison, divorce filings, a typhoid recovery, arson case pardon request, a major barn fire with $1800 loss, and storm flood damage to cellars and stores.
The article notes fevers on high elevations and malaria at lower levels due to altitude. It promotes Electric Bitters as the effective remedy to overcome climate ailments lassitude malaria jaundice biliousness fever age and debility. Sold with guarantee at Wm Kipp's Sons drug store for 50 cents.
A man reports that placing a box of lump lime in various parts of a damp cellar absorbs moisture and keeps potatoes in good condition, a simple method worth trial by grocers troubled by spoiled stock.
Opinion on prohibition contrasts with railroads stocks and women as social goods. The Great Darke County Fair will be held in Greenville Ohio August 24 to 28 1908 inviting farmers manufacturers and merchants to display stock grain fruits vegetables wares and more. The Ohio Experiment Station Wooster will attend with its display as a leading state fair feature and Greenville officials urge business support to welcome visitors and make the fair the greatest county fair in Ohio.
In a Vienna public garden a steamstress shares domestic talk with a plainly dressed woman who reveals her father was from Francia Joseph and that her role as Archduchess Gisela, Bavarian regent’s wife, is not hers. The piece blends social anecdote with a surprising royal reveal. A later note celebrates Alaska's vast timber wealth, praising vast pine forests from Valdes to Tanana and predicting lasting abundance despite U.S. hardwood declines.
Distinguishing traits of Taft portray him as combative yet peace seeking. He is praised for judicial temper, courage, calm judgment, and universal sympathy. The piece credits him with vast work capacity, executive ability, and a long lineage of upright ancestry, underscoring his fitness for the presidency.
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