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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1906
Page
2
Edward L. Thorndyke argues in The Bookman that knowledge of franchise duties should be a core high school goal. He urges that future voters understand public property, municipal rights, public hygiene, and the need to relate personal gain to social costs, noting the lack of municipal studies in most curricula.
In Aberdeen University’s fourth centenary address Lord Strathcona contrasts British higher education with Germany and the United States. He praises Aberdeen while urging Britain to adopt applied science and practical links to public life, noting that utility and broad study can coexist with high academic standards.
A survey of light speed saying 185000 miles per second and its measurement via Jupiter satellite eclipses. It notes Jupiter's shadows and moons, their eclipses, and compares to Earth's lunar cycles. A Danish estate bought by the Russian dowager empress with aim to retire from rule. A Michigan football player was killed, cited as showing new rules unsatisfactory.
Captain Henry Tumley plans to marry Julia Pray after a chance encounter sparks a moral dilemma. A stranger at the inn helps plot a quick solution to wed without scandal, but a clerical error nearly derails the plan before Tumley becomes best man and presents a generous gift at the wedding.
In July 1725 weather obsessed financiers in England bet on Saint Swithin's day rain lasting forty days. Bulriot, a banker, offered stakes including gold canes and jewels. Rain persisted two weeks, then continued until day twenty two, ending Bulriot s fortune as the days passed.
A lone mahogany tree in Honduras was felled and fashioned into boards. The export to Europe yielded over 910000 dollars, indicating a high market value for the timber.
Andrew Carnegie has doubled Skibo’s size to 88 000 acres over eight years and aims to acquire the town of Dornoch. The estate includes four villages, rivers, lakes, a forest, golf links, and 110 staff. Dornoch’s duke resists, despite offers, as Carnegie spends over 1 million on Skibo and contemplates further land purchases.
Georges Clemenceau, as interior minister, accepts the job of forming a new French ministry. The move signals swift political shifts in Paris, with Clemenceau famed for toppling cabinets since 1871 and risking Europe’s peace through his ambition and stance toward England Russia and Germany. He supported justice in the Dreyfus affair and once halted a court argument by invoking a crucifixion image above the judges.
In Washington Baroness Hengelmuller and her husband the Austrian ambassador attain the status of dean of the diplomatic corps. She is praised as one of the capital’s great social favorites noted for exclusive and novel entertainments.
The article advises people prone to toothache to rinse the mouth in sequence before entering cold areas using tepid water then slightly cooler and finally quite cold water. Before entering a hot room rinse with hot water.
Thousands suffer daily backache headaches dizzy spells and nervousness but child kidney troubles are blamed on other causes. Mrs. Anthony Cadrette describes sharp back pain and swelling which improved after using Dean's Kidney Pills. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. A lame excuse is sometimes the result of having one's leg pulled.
The famed healer lived 104 years and credits a root and herb remedy called Swedish Essence of Life. Advertises it as a tonic for stomach, liver, kidneys, and blood, claiming fever relief in malaria areas and offering free trial bottles from M R Zaegel & Co at 161 Main Street Sheboygan Wisconsin. Send name and address for no cost trial.
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