11 Jul 1906
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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1906
Page
1
A Victorian miscellany item notes Miss Bret Harte starting a London based typewriting office aided by her father’s English friends. The blurb items include claims about Leibniz on word counts, a German astronomer’s discovery, and various snatches of science and society news.
Bam Bernard to stay with Charles Frohman for next season. James Brown Fotter set for a twelve week American tour. Lew Fields gains Herald Square theater in New York and will convert it to a music hall by September. A Playloyers association forms in New York to promote native born plays. Charles Dalton to play Ahasuerus in Mizpah opening in September in Chicago. Haddon Chambers visits to arrange Sir Anthony production. Ada Rehan to consult with A. W. Pinero in Europe for a new play. J M Barrie’s Maude Adams drama postponed two years as she remains in Peter Pan.
A compilation notes Canadian Indian schooling totaling 303 institutions with 107,027 students. It cites a US treasury conference fund nearing 300,000 dollars. The piece also mentions nail growth timelines, China’s crisis reports, a one year statistic of 500,000 cases, and a chocolate-diet trial. It concludes with a playful survey noting American women’s courtship successes with titled Europeans.
The Rev Edward Bennet of St Nicholas Roman Catholic Church Wilkes Barre Pa urges a six month courtship totaling fifty two hours to decide marriage suitability advising limited street introductions, weekly calls, and two hour visits between 8 and 10 pm with a dramatic proposal deadline after eight months. He argues no courtship should last beyond seventeen months and urges prudence in young ladies behavior toward suitors. The dispatch blends this advice with unrelated note on mosquitoes and Arctic birds, reflecting a chaotic mix of topics from the era.
In a Pennsylvania regiment a colonel jealously opposed foraging and theft of supplies. Soldiers, however, pressed on hoping luck would carry them past the blockade to their tents with captured meat. A jovial private was even caught at night with a lamb hind quarter on display near his bayonet, prompting a stern inquiry.
A postrace exchange surfaces in which Ayet Chanfeur asks a puzzled onlooker, “in this your eye?” amid crowd chatter and a casual remark about finding something in the race aftermath. The moment highlights informal reactions after the event.
Discussion in Congress centers on funding the salary of Mrs. Roosevelt's social secretary Miss Isabelle Hagner. She has served on the White House payroll as a clerk at 1400 dollars yearly, previously a war department clerk, and is described as an indispensable personage.
The account describes a hunting party under the nizam of Haldarabad during a tour of Great Britain's eastern possessions. A tame cheetah or leopard, harnessed to a native bedstead on a cart, stalks deer known as black bucks and pursuits end when the restraint loosens and the big cat closes in on its quarry.
Mrs. Nannie Langhorne Shaw, sister of the Langhorne trio of Richmond, Virginia, is set to marry Waldorf Astor, son of William Waldorf Astor. Previously wed to Robert Gould Shaw of Boston, she obtained a divorce in 1897 at age nineteen and has lived largely in England since. One sister married Charles Dana Gibson, another Mrs Reginald Brooke. Astor is to inherit a substantial fortune.
A whimsical Washington Star exchange mocks superstition about moon positions and luck. The philosopher questions why people cling to fancies while a self-assured man claims better luck peering leftward toward the moon.
An exchange from Wat g00's Magazine portrays Mrs View Uncle Josh and Aunt Hetty debating a minister's rheumatics and a father’s influence. The venerable man on the cracker barrel weighs the truth that a father bears blame or credit for his son’s fortunes or failings.
In a column from the New Orleans Times-Democrat a conceited bore relishes a cruel line about a woman’s frigid mood and departure. Miss Pasnay laments her hair while Miss Pepprey suggests remedies, mirthful gossip from Philadelphia Ledger material.
A terse exchange between a boastful bulldog and a quiet porcupine unfolds with sharp banter about fighting and points, set in a Brooklyn context. The scene hints at streetwise bravado and underlying threats, with the porcupine signaling a counterattack.
A Yonkers Statesman excerpt humorously contrasts fairy tale openings by a woman and a man, noting how a man’s line starts with conciliatory phrases. The piece references Alaska leading in gold production ahead of Montana Nevada and South Dakota, and moves on to promising California and Colorado a ban be.
Members of the National Editorial association on their annual outing were hosted by Winona assembly in Winona Lake Indiana. They enjoyed rides to Warsi fishing boating water sports and a concert in the afternoon. An evening concert and steam boat excursion followed before editors departed for Chicago.
Marshalltown Iowa June 27 catcher Whitney of the Burlington team in the Iowa State League died in Waterloo hospital from injuries sustained last Sunday when struck in the head by a pitched ball. Police report Elyria Ohio June 27 three men alleged robbers opened fire on four officers wounding one officer slightly and the robbers escaped after about twenty shots.
George H. Smith an expert accountant aged 40 shot himself in his East Owings home. Grieving over potential loss of earnings and inability to provide for wife and two children the tragedy echoes a prior disappearance six months earlier when he vanished from his home and later was found in a hospital in Lowaville.
The president sent to the senate nominations to consulates Louis J Orsenberg Michigan at Seville Spain and Robert J Chomp son Wilmington New Saloon Rule Chicago June 27 after July 31 no more saloons may open in Chicago until population nearly doubles. ordinance limits licenses. prohibits new licenses until population increases and new income can be issued at rate of one per fifty persons.
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