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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1908
Page
7
A local sale reports phenomenal results and invites shoppers to buy new stock at very low prices. Ten day promotions cover a wide range of wallpaper from 1 1 2 cent to 75 cent to 1 dollar, highlighting plans to sustain the big sale throughout next week for broad access.
Room Size Rugs 31 dollars and 50 cents 9 by 12 Wilton Velvet rugs 27 dollars and 50 cents 9 by 12 Body Brussells rugs 37 dollars and 50 cents 9 by 15 Royal Wilton rugs.
The Sunday School board of Epworth Methodist church hosts the Joint Glee Club of Ohio Wesleyan University on Friday May 2. The program features Glen clubs, vocal and instrumental solos, the University Male Quartet, readings by Adam Wecht, and a varied concert with patriotic classic and humorous numbers. Weak voices include Miss Stella Allen and Miss Grace Toy, with Wecht delivering a dramatic reading and preparing for The Merchant of Venice.
In Pitteturg Pa T. J. Mackmore reports rapid relief from rheumatism after using Dr Detehon's Relief for Rheumatism. He says he left bed within 24 hours and earlier saw little help from five physicians. He endorses the medicine highly and recommends it to others. The message appears from The Tumble Pharmacy Kerr House.
Survivors recount the battle of Manila Bay with dramatic imagery. The Don Antonio de Ulloa sinks as its crew fights waist deep in water. The last Spanish ship goes under leaving only a bow gun firing amid exploding magazines and fires over wreckage.
In West African studies Miss Kingsley relates a village scene where driver ants invade a hut leaving the family in distress. A clutch of ants swarms a suspended infant mass, and the mother’s frantic rescue ends with the so called baby placed into a water barrel by the husband holding it down with a hoe. The tale ends with the line that the mass was not an infant but a bam.
Witty lines reflect confronting death. Tom Hood jokes about a mustard plaster for a shrinking chest as he faces mortality. Sir Walter Raleigh quips on the edge of the scaffold. An Italian nobleman, likely misled by patent medicine ads, leaves a final grave inscription.
A collection of short items urges patience and foresight for boys leaving school, warns against rushing to work, and notes the value of skilled craft. It includes “His own name's enough Robert Burns” and remarks on musicians avoiding marriage, reflecting period voices and urban newspaper tone.
A Victorian style column quotes a remark about Maude and engagement rings sparking notice among six girls. It then introduces a curious botanical note on the wild tamarind or Juba Plant, detailing its dramatic effects on nonruminant animals and differing impacts on various livestock, with historical commentary on its potential as fodder in tropical regions. The passage blends social chatter with scientific anecdote.
Boston Globe notes warn against claiming Mayflower teapots as sacred relics while tracing tea's arrival in England and America. It recounts tea’s early value, the spread to coffee houses, and later city shop availability, framing teapots as curios rather than proven pilgrim artifacts.
A tourist reports daring young Spaniards in Seville who climb cathedral bells on fete days. They push and ride the bells, swinging wildly as bold ringers dangle from ropes or grip the bell ears, creating a frightening, noisy spectacle for spectators.
Egyptologists find ancient burial practice tied to belief in bodily resurrection. The text notes emphasis on preservative rites as central to the dead’s afterlife, reflecting keystone ideas in secient Egyptane culture.
The article outlines beliefs about the soul body and ka in ancient rites, noting death follows a long probation in the underworld and embalming preserves the body. It also reflects on tailors studying a mirror to correct flaws, and a curious etymology of the word news linked to geography and a race of women, as cited by the Minneapolis Journal.
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