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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1907
Page
15
A faded early 20th century ad asks if Peruna helps catarrh and touts a list of ingredients submitted to Dr. Hartman. It laments widespread chronic catarrh and claims many patients gain no relief despite visits to doctors. It argues the remedy should be affordable and honestly labeled.
Incoherent OCR yields a barrage of names, incidents, and dates. Items include inaugurations, deaths, strikes, storms, a shooting in New York, executions, a murder case in Louisiana, naval build up, and various political moves across several nations. The piece reads as a string of varied clippings with few clear through lines.
A tongue in cheek yarn circulates about bass and trout leaping rivers and a dam eight to ten feet high. The group doubts the claim yet the angler remains convinced a ten foot dam can be hurdled by a fish, ending the evening’s fish stories.
An elderly portly man in a light gray suit asks a quiet boy why he does not play. The boy replies he is waiting and waking, while a man painted the bench about fifteen minutes ago, in a moment of闲.
In a Bern canton region famed for cattle and its wilk breed, residents are described as “coffee faced and flat chested.” Recent military draft called eighteen mountaineers, but all but four were rejected. Milk and other income sources dominate local life as peasants overindulge.
A Pittsburg millionaire loiters outside pearly gates as a shade asks him to hurry. He waits for another man, a yesterday from San Francisco, to get ahead, declaring he will seem innocent by comparison.
An advertisement promotes Grape-Nuts cereal as a superior, easily digested product. It asserts ordinary cereals cause poor digestion, describing stomach and duodenal issues from undercooked grains, while claiming Grape-Nuts is fully cooked at the factory, aiding digestion for all ages and even linking to the book The Road to Wellville.
Mrs Clyde Pixley of Bridgeport Michigan describes years of bladder inflammation kidney trouble and painful symptoms. After a week on Donn's Kidney Pills she improved and later became well. The account notes the product sold by dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn.
Five pallbearers and mourners fell into a shallow grave when a crosspiece under the coffin was kicked out during the final lowering at the burial of Michael Sereno a Westport merchant. The coffin sank feet first, responders pulled five people from the pit, the coffin was recovered and the burial completed.
Edith Hammer of Morrison NL reports two sisters cured of eczema of the head using Cuticura Soap and Ointment with one cake and one box. Another sister found Cuticura Resolvent and Pills a fine tonic despite the note. Date October 3 1906.
A short country school tale shows Jake Boggs refusing to yield to a math problem about apples. He quips that if a brother took one, he would retain a big fool as the remaining result, prompting a humorous misfire from the teacher.
A widow in a village near Presburk deposited 400 Kronen in a rural savings bank after a vision of Death warned her to hide the money for him. The next day she withdrew it, bank staff sought an explanation, and Death appeared in the form of a local judge, who was alive. The money remains in the bank.
American interest in China has focused on Chinese Jews who settled at Kalfungfu, dating back to the Han dynasty. The community, noted by travelers and missionaries from Marco Polo to Jesuits, is now nearly extinct but their records and tablets are preserved per Alfred Glover in Overland Monthly May issue.
The damaged fragment describes an old brick laboratory in Middle Town Com that has undergone changes since 182. It mentions a gunhouse and notes it was used as a hospital eating house carpenter shop and an electrical laboratory during its history.
A fragmented note references Mire Winslow discussing Santi Forentiiron with softer terms and a nod to Shakespeare, portraying Ruskin as the lone hero. The text remains fragmentary with unclear context and attributive details.
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