10 Sep 1902
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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1902
Page
1
A vestryman recalls twenty one years of parish plate offerings at Sunday services. He notes coins from nearly every country, counterfeits, a quarter with a hair cut request, and a wedled envelope seeking a match for an elderly bachelor. A Chinese coin sold for 3.25 dollars. others give 5 to 10 dollars, with multiple people giving twenty dollar bills.
A tribute praising Andrew Carnegie as a philanthropic giant. The piece lauds his fame driven by love of mankind and notes his self-acknowledged sins of coveting honor. It credits his gifts as a monumental, pyramidal memorial benefiting countless people for generations.
A Pennsylvanian joke features Judge Pennypacker seating on the bench when his brother Harry asks for a loan. The judge, upholding form, orders the request in writing and aloud reads the clerk’s slip: application for a loan of $5 is received and refused.
A description of paper hunting as a spirited equestrian pursuit. Riders follow a trail laid by the hare, with no fixed pace, depending on the leading horse and terrain. The hare tries to foil pursuers using cunning within the game rules, illustrating this sport as lively and potentially dangerous.
Marquis Saigo Tengumichi, a famed Japanese statesman who helped liberate Japan from the Tycoon, promoted the mikado, and drafted Japan's declaration of independence in 1867, died of cancer in Yokohama. He was imprisoned for years for his actions but recovered to aid in overthrowing the Tycoon and held many high government posts.
Admiral Jouett recalls a cadet’s bold talk aboard a ship met with strict discipline. Berthensohn, visiting Tolstoy, writes he is well and drafting his memoir. Russian painter Pasternak from Odessa has finished a Tolstoy portrait showing the novelist with family listening as his wife reads.
A garbled report suggests Gen. Prenger, chief of the Boer prison near Lisbon, will not return to the Transvaal and may become a Portuguese subject after discovering a gold mine near Coimbra. The account indicates he intends to exploit the mine and relocate.
James Breese M P argued at Oxford that in the Rocky Mountains some would claim no infusion of Negro blood and noted that mothers or grandmothers had Indigenous ancestry. He contrasted Teutonic and Southern European attitudes toward intermarriage, saying Americans English and Germans tolerate mixing with a colored race, reducing prospects for retention of race.
The vacation school idea is widely recognized and many large cities have adopted it. It aims to provide light study and limited entertainment for several hours daily, keeping poor children away from demoralizing street influences. It is a benevolent plan of value to the municipality, helping the rising generation toward better citizenship.
A writer notes that most rivers run southward, a fact with far reaching implications. He discusses how a river freezing at its mouth or overflowing at its headwaters could cause immense trouble and imagines how history might differ if the Mississippi emptied into Hudson Bay.
Toledo mayor known as Golden Rule Jones has journeyed into Michigan with his son Paul for an indefinite rest period. He is in poor health and refuses medical consults, leaving no public address. A confidential official holds details as he aims to return home in good condition.
A reader sends a moral tale on gentleness. A London Globe remark frames a carpenter as a gentleman only when someone pays 20 shillings in the pound. A furniture remover answers with a plain retort about social labels and payment.
Public notice says John Masterson Burke of New York donated 84 million to charity. He has faced relentless cranks and begging, prompting him to retreat to the country and require police guards near his residence before departure.
The Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung reports the largest trial ever to occur in Kiev, Russia, where six thousand men and women of all ages arrested for participation in the Poltava and Kharkoff rioting will face a military tribunal.
A London newspaper reports a near disruption at a literary club meeting where a participant, upon the mention of Keats, demanded clarification of who the poet was, prompting an abrupt airing of questions about literary knowledge.
State Senator J Henry Cochran of Williamsport Pennsylvania proposes to pave a street at his own expense with no personal or pecuniary interest in the pavement. The proposal aims to benefit the city council and residents.
Samuel YV Blessing, of Lewiston Missouri, who had been separated from his sister Annie L. Mayers and Macon, Missouri for forty five years, is traced alive after many believed him dead. He has become wealthy through cattle ranching during the interim.
Reported dietary habit for Bedouin Arabs highlights light meals of dates with melted butter or simple flour and polled rica, claimed to reduce headache frequency. The text notes small portions and long intervals between meals, suggesting a lifestyle link to relief.
Mrs John M Glenn formerly Mary Wilcox Brown a prominent Baltimore woman will give up her city home and devote herself to charity work among the poor at Locust Point she aims to aid distressed families and improve local conditions.
Charles Tennyson, grandson of the late poet laureate and son of Lionel Tennyson, secured a distinction at Cambridge University this year. This marks a notable achievement within the Tennyson family lineage connected to the poet.
Berlin statisticians find that all 697 Christian names were used for the 41,000 children born here each year.
A tiger at the Philadelphia Zoo attacked a horse pulling a cart loaded with garden rubbish. The tiger sprang as the horse approached the cage, the horse collided with bars, and the tiger retreated to its enclosure. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon as the animals interacted in the enclosure yard.
The piece asserts smoking is universal across Polynesia China Japan and Siam. It notes a Burma mother offering a cheroot to her nursing baby while the child puffs with evident pleasure and mentions Kaffirs smoking cigars with the ends lit and tongues tucked away. It also references Stanley's Pigmies of Central Africa as inveterate smokers and claims the yellow man of the Orient begins the day with a cheroot.
Lawrence Kansas mourns Rev John S Brown at 97, likely the last link to Brook Farm's idealistic coterie. Notable figures tied to the experiment include Hawthorne Dana Emerson Alcott Greeley Curtin Lowell Whittier Higginson and many others who aided it with time money or influence.
A Washington Post quotation recalls Representative Landis of Indiana and Representative Littlefield dining at Harvey's. Landis orders a steak two inches thick, juicy, tender, cut from the inside, insisting on no outside beef. A diner replies that such a steak does not exist in the house.
A Columbus home visit features a pastor known for soul saving. Freddie, a bright child on the pastor's knee, asks how many souls he has paved up. The pastor confirms saving souls and answers Freddie's earnest inquiry in simple terms.
The novellist known as Q has been appointed British consul to San Marino to aid his long in progress history of the republic. The work is near completion and slated for early 1903 publication. A real estate boom grows near Oyster Bay as the Roosevelt family home draws attention.
Five acres around Chating Crags in London are held by the war quis of Salishuity. The land was acquired by ancestors 28 years ago for grazing at 3.60 dollars per acre for 600 years. The value of that bargain to the Cecils is hard to compute.
The Wardwell family in Detroit includes a mother and sixteen siblings, all residents except one brother who is in the Klondike. Ages range from 45 to 45, indicating an unusually old parental generation with no deaths among the brothers and sisters in the family.
United States resident Herr Goldberger, the German commercial tourist who spent about eight months in the U S and returned in June, will soon begin a series of articles on American economic affairs under the title The Land of Unlimited Possibilities.
A Massachusetts visitor in Washington was arrested after a fall by the wayside and charged for kicking a police officer. He received a sixty day jail sentence, prompting questions about whether old Massachusetts privileges to kick at anything outside Boston are being ignored.
An infant left asleep in a cradle in a field near Trieste was taken by an eagle while a mother worked nearby. A search found the eagle's nest with the child’s body partly devoured.
The London Chronicle reports Lord Curzon of Kedleston will receive a peerage when his term as Indian viceroy ends. He would then hold a rank greater than his father, a rare but not unique position for a former ruler.
Hetty Green offers to build a Magenta hall in Chesterton Indiana on the site of a recent fire. Andrew Carnegie offers to fund a village library for Chesterton on his standard terms.
A Boston Herald satirically warns readers to weigh the cost of profanity before use. It suggests even wealthy individuals may face high tariffs for inferior oaths, and urges law abiding citizens to carry a copy of the oath tariff to consult before swearing.
Extensive alterations are under way at Burns cottage Alloway the poet birthplace. Officials promise the exterior will remain unchanged while an outbuilding dating from 1806 to 1819 is removed. An electric tramway now runs past the door and a road is being built between the auld haunted kirk and the monument.
A last month report notes a novel army of locusts ravaging cotton districts in Central Asia. Wartime style, armies of chickens were driven through the fields to perform their duty but lacked water and were forced to retreat.
The report notes a male majority in all but eleven states and territories, concentrated along the Atlantic coast. California shows the largest male excess at 156,009, followed by Minnesota 113,586, Texas 109,000, and Pennsylvania with a substantial but incomplete figure for 2007.
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