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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
3
The item promotes Sunbonnet Number Four and the popularity of a Sunday World Art supplement feature. It notes large readership and ongoing stories with the next issue including a piece titled Wasting Day, showcasing Sunbonnet Beatles washing and hanging out clothes.
IDR C G Smith lists office and home at 464 Silver Street with hours 7:30 to 10:30 am and 2:00 to 5:00 pm. Citizen phone 448 is provided. Specializes in diseases of children.
Unclaimed letters listed for Marion Ohio post office with names including J Busch Albert Baker L A Clements Dunham Pett Edwarde Jones Killinger King Lynch Leland Motlare Reed Reed Vonstein Williams Mary Lee and many others. Public notice by postmaster M B Dickerson.
A dubious claim touts a “Neuralyodically” cures rheumatism in 1 to 3 days with immediate relief after the first dose. The advertisement asserts rapid benefits and notes the product is sold by The Dumblr Pharmacy opposite Pilgrim Inn.
Alliance, O June 20 Levi Lampton fainted during a camp meeting and lay unconscious for three hours. He then claimed to have spoken with God and described travels through distant lands and visions of arm or who would be saved by patience. He said he suffered Christ like tortures and felt blood from the wounds while under the trance.
A consular report describes Smyrna carpets from the vilayet capital and nearby villages Usehak and Ghiardi. It notes thousands of mostly female workers, child labor from ages seven to ten, and men in coffee houses. Carpets are spun and dyed by specialists, rolled into 280 pound halen, and shipped after cleansing in Smyrna basar.
Nineteenth century French beadmaker Motso Jaquin reportedly discovered a way to create pearly sheen by extracting a luster from fish scales. The method involved washing, rubbing, and applying a pearl paint that coated beads and other surfaces. It reportedly yielded about an ounce of pigment from 1,000 fish scales.
Cronton New Jersey June 20 Gov Stokes asked for resignation of Secretary of State Samuel Dickinson. The request was rejected. The governor asked Dickinson to withdraw a libel suit against Mayne Eagan of Jersey City who had charged Dickinson. The incident followed attempts to block his appointment and a public confession.
A garbled 19th century note references the milk question as a rallying point amid themes of life and death, attributed to a British Medical Journal in a fragmentary report. The text appears pugnacious and diplomatically framed, hinting at public health and political pressures of the era.
At a recent entertaining event, guests found place cards crafted as petals on white tea roses. Each petal described the guest’s name, serving as a decorative seating arrangement. The centerpiece used electric lighting to illuminate the display.
An aged lord challenged by a pompous peer at an official dinner on the eve of Parliament's opening. The exchange centers on the sugar trade as Mr. Ritchie, a middle clan commoner, replies that a pound of sugar weighs the same as a pound of pakum. The peer reddens and leaves in anger amid related remarks and local gossip.
Fragmentary dialogue exchanges hint at an old style courtship scene with phrases about marriage and vows. The readable text includes quirky misquotes and partial lines suggesting a playful or theatrical tone rather than a clear news item or event.
Dyspeptic Thomas Carlyle, irritable in company, mocks friends and peers from Tennyson to Hallam. He scorns critics and writers, calls Austen “dish wash,” and ridicules Browning’s gift leaving at his door. Even a portrait sale sparks a brutal quip about value.
A Chicago Record Herald tale recounts Judge Scovel learning a coat sleeve discrepancy arose from his habit of riding streetcars. The tailor notes long arms from constant strap hanging, adjusting sleeves to arm length. The piece also warns about high collars damaging neck appearance and extols Texas black bass as a regional flavor, citing Washington parish and Houston Post observations.
A fragment describes a hands on stage illusion where a performer shows a palm up open hand and asks a friend to attempt a trick. The performer calls for bending fingers to touch the palm without bending the thumb while a dialogue exchanges playful doubt and challenge.
A condemned man in a Washington jail asks for a final, very small favor. He requests a few peaches to eat, even though they would not be ripe for months. The jailer is incredulous, but the prisoner insists he can wait for the fruit.
The briefing skims honorary presidents names from multiple nations and notes Geneva and Drago Doctrines. Delegates discuss arbitration, extend to Drago Doctrine, but most powers slow preliminaries. Next plenary date not fixed as talks hinge on calls from M Nolidoit.
Mix. Atos M. List, who resided south of the sty along the interurban line, is reported to be quite ill. Min. C. W. Bing of Seattle arrived last evening to several days in the city with friends. Mrs. King will be accompanied home by her mother, Mrs. Matilda Hey, for an extended visit in the West.
At a well attended Fraternal Order of Eagles meeting on East Center Street Newt and Frank Ritzhaupt were elected delegates to the state convention in Catondice 95 on the 26th and 27th. An excellent program followed with Levi Cornwell as master of ceremonies and speakers John DeGolley Lily McNeal Frank Poppleton and Frank Rithaupt. A donation banquet served about 75 attendees. Knights Templar will meet tonight to elect officers and the Protected Home Circle will hold its annual officers election Friday. Marion Council R and M met Eight and addressed routine business.
The Board of Public Service of Marion City invites sealed bids until noon Tuesday June 26 1907 for furnishing about 800 square yards of first class screen and 200 square yards of fire lawn screenings to Lincoln Park and Garfield Park delivery by September 1 1907. Each bid must state full names of every person or company interested and include a $100 deposit with the City Treasurer as guarantee of contract if awarded. The Board reserves right to reject any bid. William Files, Clerk. Star and Mirror 6-13-20 1907.
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