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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1908
Page
4
Bun sets at 6 41 and rises at 5 16 with the moon rising at 848 am. The moon’s age is 28 days. This brief note lists daily celestial timings and a roughly two week moon phase, offering practical sky watching details.
For the office of auditor, Miles Longshore is indicated as the candidate. For treasurer, W. Wornrina is named as the candidate. The fragment confirms two named officials but lacks context on jurisdiction, party, or election date.
The piece argues Republicans inflated claims of inheriting prosperity, cites Dunn's panic data from 1906-1908 showing notable U S failures under both parties, and criticizes campaign advisory appointments including Hitchcock and Cortelyou, suggesting Wall Street influence on money policy amid the election drive.
President Moosevelt has decided to back Governor Hughes in New York as a favorable move for Taft and delegates the publication of his decision to Congressman Sherman. The national committee backs Bryan for the native role. Wrgan accepts campaign work, while Nick Longworth attends a Cleveland event amid local gossip about Alice. A long courtship yields a newly married couple after twenty two years. Molland faces leasing concerns and trouble with Veneness. Castro should beware the nation's patient wrath. A Baltimore minister seeks marriage to a woman ten years younger, with a child in early youth. Roy Knaubenshue and Harris are among notable figures at the state fair with harmon and Foraker, Dick and iris-clad detectives.
The article reports a worldwide campaign against rats tied to bubonic plague fears. England plans a large vermin destruction campaign with clubs and prizes, claiming annual crop damage of 280 million dollars. The effort aims to show dramatic extermination results, potentially inspiring similar actions in the United States.
A survey of European royal romances highlights Archduke Francis Ferdinand and Countess Chotek, Archduke Johann's controversial union with a shopkeeper’s daughter, and Leopold Ferdinand's sister’s elopement. Narratives extend to nature’s influence on trees, twisting with earth rotation and winds, weaving fact and folklore through royal lines and science.
The Fur News recounts harsh tales showing Indian women and men facing winter hunts. A squaw skinning a bear blocks a threat with a tomahawk and a sapling. another hunter uses improvised weapons to kill a moose cow and drive off the male.
A new Donisthorpe printing method claims to produce prints in minutes without any light. Invented by Frank W. Donisthorpe, the process uses a hardening bath and dye immersion to create prints from a negative, enabling night printing as effectively as daytime work. Independent experts confirm its potential, noting simplicity and economy for beginners and professionals alike.
An old veteran recalls a brutal Civil War day under heat and thirst, saving comrades from drowning as tents sprang up and hospitals filled. A Confederate Johnny from the Shenandoah era tells of a Martinsburg street fight, a barefoot boy ignoring danger to watch the battle while a frightened mother pleads from a window. The page also advertises Missouri tomato yields, farm profits, and winter spinach ideas for small plots near Kansas City.
Odds and Ends advertises new goods arriving daily with astonishingly low prices on every odd piece of furniture. It promotes constant fresh stock and value for customers seeking affordable home furnishings.
A fragment describes a camera or printing process where a penny is pried or dipped in methylated spirits, blotting, and a print drying in five minutes. The text mentions retouching the negative and reusing it, with multiple prints possible from one negative after a developing bath.
A brief advert claims quick, complete results with no film loss or damage. The service asserts they use the best materials and can prove their quality, inviting customers to try and then spread the word to friends.
A fragmentary OCR shows diverse business notices including Brunskill Studio on Farming Brest advertising waste paper purchases and a real estate auction service, BTAR Bottling Works listing beverages and mineral waters, J R Smith Prop with phone, and a veterinary hospital with Livery and Feed Barn services on Union Street.
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