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Newspaper
The Pioche Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1906
Page
3
A letter from Annie Hendren of Rocklyn Washington extols Peruna as a wonderful medicine. She says after four years of illness she recovered after using Peruna and Manalin, can now perform all housework and milking duties, and credits the remedy with her health and happiness.
A writer in the Evening Standard defends abbreviation and credits a London omnibus driver with coining Bakerloo Tube. Public use quickened the term from a witty gibe to official label seen at Trafalgar Square. Also recounted is a Barking misidentification incident where an urban councillor was mistaken for a prisoner on a commuter train.
A Elizabethtown minister recounts how Grape-Nuts restored his appetite strength and weight after a La Grippe like collapse. He describes renewed energy sleep and social interest after using the food, claiming a return to near his former weight and a renewed pulpit presence. The advertisement touts Grape-Nuts as a powerful rebuilding agent and invites readers to try a ten day trial and consult the recipe book in the package.
Guatemala blamed for recent revolution as armistice goes into effect at 6 am. Guatemalan minister Munoz reports selection of three commissioners and a secretary to attend the peace conference in San Jose. American officials, including John Jenkins, work to reestablish peace amid accusations of prior hostility.
Washington reports the Japanese government seeks industrial nationalization across railways, Manchurian ops, and natural resources. A government private capital company would run Manchurian railways forests and mines, signaling a broad, state led effort that could alter competition with American firms in the Orient.
Miss Mary Lester of Chicago and London wife of George N Curzon former viceroy of India died at 5 40 pm after a long illness and a recent heat wave. She inherited about 2 000 000 dollars and met Curzon in England in 1895 before his roles as under secretary, secretary of state for India and viceroy of India.
At East 109th Street a quarrel between Conrad Schirmer and his 19 year old son Conrad sparked when the youth argued about his late courting at Miss Clara Lazarus home. The son stabbed the father with broken glass, likely causing a fatal wound. The younger man was arrested.
The committee of trustees for Mutual Life Insurance Company reported the slate for the annual meeting in December and disclosed that Henry H. Rogers and William Rockefeller have withdrawn from further connection with the board. The move follows Standard Oil interests exiting from the group.
I weeks in bed with intensely painful kidney trouble. Mary Wagner of 1367 Kossuth Ave Bridgeport recounts relief after using Dean Kidney Pills. The advertisement notes the product is promoted by Porter Milburn Co Buffalo NY at 60 cents a box.
James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, recalls a tale of a farmer who claimed a frog could predict weather. On a walk, the frog allegedly forecast 24 hours of sun, but a sudden shower proved the frog lied. The farmer questioned responsibility, while Wilson notes the humor in attributing weather to a frog.
Mrs W F Griess of Clay CenterNebraska describes severe scalp itch and hair loss. She used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment weekly, shampooing once a week and applying ointment twice weekly. Within two months her hair grew long enough to style in a French twist and has remained healthy for five years with no dandruff or scalp itching.
A collection of home health advice advises keeping a warm but not overheated bedroom between 60 and 65 degrees, avoiding clutter, not sleeping with cold feet, and sunning bedding with pillows kept out of direct sun. It then promotes EGG-O-SHE wheat cereal as digestion friendly nourishment, touting its palatability and health benefits with testimonial style. The ad ends with a copy encouraging a free booklet “Back to Nature” and a gift offer from the EGG-O-SEE Company.
A sprawling roundup from Laramie to Oregon, Washington and Montana reports accidents, murders, strikes, mine fires, and legal actions. Notable items include a fatal shooting near Abertoan, a miner falling to death in Baker City, a wife poisoned by medicine error in Collins Hot Springs, and a hotel collapse in Butte causing heavy losses. Public notices cover strikes, searches for a Brattain boy, and railroad bridge contracts as Spokane contractors push improvements.
A collection of aphorisms and maxims from ancient authors including Terenes Plautus Bias Solon Synestus Phocylides and Py Pythagoras. The passages discuss wealth virtue love popularity kindness and public interest in punishment.
In a Denver Post sourced tale a traveler recalls seeing a man drop a pocketbook on an Omaha street. A messenger boy returned it after a quar ter. the man offered three dollars. The boy asked for more saying he was naked, sparking the traveling man to condemn those who would not reward honesty.
The article notes that Cornelius Vanderbilt’s agents applied in the name of his father and Alfred G. for membership in the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati, representing the Vanderbilt family. The society chose Cornettix as proper representative and elected him along with 15 others, amid reflections on domestic relations and moral sentiments.
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