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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
10
The piece laments changes in rural life as families once fattened pigs at home vanish. It recalls canned foods and farm cycles, noting pigs no longer roam freely near the barn. Nostalgia contrasts with modern city life and distant markets.
Readable notes reveal casual quips about weather, ice skates, watermelons, and daily life. Mentions Cape Girardeau Missouri and Poplar Bluff. Includes garbled lines about family dynamics and social idle talk with scattered place names and phrases.
A sweeping portrait recalls Alden B Stockwell, James Morse, Henry N Smith, Daniel Sully, and others who rose from obscurity to vast wealth and fell just as quickly. The piece traces rapid fortunes, daring bets, and ultimate ruin on the street, with vivid anecdotes of com manders, bankers, and brokers who gained fame and lost everything in the market's volatile arc.
At a Paris meeting of the International Tuberculosis Society, Dr George Paul asserted that 70 percent of bakers' laborers are affected by tuberculosis and warned bread could be a contagion factor. The report notes a German hospital discovery of a new analgesic, hydro chlorate of bentoyitutramethyldiam onoethyldimethylcarbinol, as a claimed antidote.
Prof Herbert Willet of the University of Chicago argues in a lecture that biblical miracles in the Old Testament are narrative devices, not factual events. He contends miracle stories are fables used to convey moral truths, noting ancient readers could treat them as ethical instruction rather than literal history.
A laborer on the asylum wall is asked about family and income. He replies he has eight in his family and earns twelve chillings a week. A New England House member recalls a humorous exchange between Thomas B. Reed and a talkative barber, who jokes about being born the way as Reed stays monosyllabic.
A conversation at a boarding house turns playful as Mrs Hasher poses a joke about the Adam and Eve tale. The star boarder quips that the forbidden fruit was a prune and warns prunes will cause trouble if not cut out.
A Harper's Weekly humorous note records pupil definitions from a recent England exam. Answers include Noah's wife as Joan of Ate, water as two gases oxygen and cambrigen, lava as what the barber uses on the face, and a blind mark inside a fowl, illustrating humorous misunderstandings.
A fragmentary dialogue questions whether one would be Mormon and have ten wives. The text humorously riffs on the idea of multiple spouses and even suggests ten pairs of suspenders for Christmas. The excerpt reads as a playful exchange with cultural references.
Mrs Wiserly recalls how she stopped her husband from bringing a friend home for dinner by serving enough for one. Mrs Askitt asks how she did it and receives the succinct reply.
A cryptic exchange involves Beep Laid Plot and DelLong debating a low-cost trip to the city. Buortleigh plans lodging at a boarding house as part of the discussion.
The Portenodtt home event schedule lists a 2:50 PM Sunday concert by The Marlon Stearn Shovel Band at Tevola. Other notes mention a worker fainting at Union Station, a motor cycle collision near Lavery Center, and an elderly man, 80, taken to a hospital after a fall. Also announced are a Sunday school first lesson, a music program, and Rev Dunham’s sermon at Epworth M. church.
A Mrs M Summers of Notre Dame Indiana offers free home treatment for muscular joint pains backache kidney pains and neuralgia. She claims a cure by cleansing the blood toning joints and improving eyesight without climate change. Address Box KR for proof and more details.
Osborn, a dentist, faced charges of failing to provide for a minor in a Marion County case heard in court. He was bound over to the grand jury under ten dollars after the proceedings. The bride later remarried after a separation and divorce following the child’s birth. Prosecution by the Marion County Humingeoalety.
The Marion county Republican Central Committee chose James J. Philips, ex-councilman, to represent the BL precinct of the third ward. The meeting also organized the county board of deputy supervisors of elections for yearly affairs, with Wr G. Lucy and SH Lehn noted as officers.
Modas Pious initiates a date line change in a surprising move affecting local schedules and public notices. The alteration, seen by observers as a bold timing shift, draws attention from officials and residents alike.
The article notes growing attention to a steam press invention by Mr. Winch. He has completed the first shield at the Header Manufacturing Company plant, attracting multiple offers and suggesting a shift from prior balfers in the field.
New York police say three men tied to a large fraud at the Express Company were arrested. They allegedly forged checks totaling about 100 005 dollars, gaining access to valuables and moving them through Europe and America.
The report notes incomplete and jumbled market data from East Buffalo New York. It mentions various prices and items with uncertain values and several garbled names.
Market notes Monday figures show varied livestock movements at Union Stock Yards led by mixed cattle and strong sheep demand. Cattle receipts steady to light. prime beef steady to higher, light trade. sheep and lambs show robust demand with steady to strong pricing across grades and regions.
A garbled OCR fragment lists racing terms and dates with numbers and place names, including September and December windows, opening and closing times, and various bet or yardage figures. The text is largely unreadable but indicates event scheduling and results without coherent context.
The Marion Milling and Grain Co reports wheat at 90 per bushel, corn 75, oats 60, rye 55, and timothy 2.00 per bushel with other seeds and hog feed listed. Chan Turner & Co paid higher prices for butter, lard, syrups, sugars, vinegars, dried fruits, and grains, including prunes, dried peaches, and peanut products, with various small-batch pricing and legal tender notes.
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