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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
3
Mathilde negotiates a delicate, tension filled visit at Orkwell with Stewart and Nellie Fearon. Secrets swirl as Nellie reappears, a cousin Norman nears Paris ties, and Mathilde faces betrayals amid social appearances and looming inheritance.
A fragment from a 19th century style poem laments aging and distance, urging prodigal sons to recall family hearths. It blends lines about old folks, homecomings, and memory with references to The poem Since She Went Home by Robert J. Burdetiv and Will I. Hale, capturing sentimental ties and longing.
An essay by Charles Battell Loomis in Smiths argues that American travelers often reveal boastful patriotism overseas. He notes Germans, English, French, and Italians form sharper opinions of Americans as freedom from home grows. The piece critiques blunt travelers while praising bluntness as a trait of Anglo-Saxon honesty.
A Philadelphia Inquirer joke about puns and wordplay, contrasting good, neutral, and bad puns. A father explains a pun as supper in the mind, while a child squeezes humor from a thrown book, framing a playful kitchen-table exchange.
A quip from London Answers presents a canvasser asking a householder about her husband’s politics. The lady responds that in public he is liberal or conservative depending on company, but at home he is described as a perfect and sane man, highlighting domestic irony in political labels.
A brief Elizabethan poem by George Wither contemplates unrequited affection and resolve. The speaker questions if death or patient endurance proves his worth, declaring that a beloved’s favor governs his fate regardless of her beauty or virtue.
A sunlit, gray prison yard scene shows prisoners in a stifling cell block. A giant inmate struggles with monotony, listening to pipe knockings as he assembles letters into words and faces a sudden hallway intrusion by the turnkey.
A brutal convict strikes down a turnkey during a noon escape. With a sharpened iron, he slips through a loose wall, finds the open road, vaults a wall, and flees into the woods, joy fueling his desperate dash toward freedom.
A reader’s passage recalls a brutal scene where a condemned man, granted pardon, is sent to his cell only to face a savage tribal execution. The narrative ties to the Mexican Exchange account, detailing a pardon followed by a grim Indian punishment and bone burying on a mountainside.
An old Zapotec chief recounts a Mexican Indian execution in Oaxaca. A thief killed a visiting American botanist over a gold bracelet and a maze, and four runners tracked him down. The council ordered the killer fed to the plaza stakes, a brutal rite to avenge the stranger.
A humorous monologue on married life contrasts women’s social antics with men’s habits. It jokingly critiques quirks like churchgoing displays, shared hotel nights, and hidden pajama possessions, while mockingly debating intuition and mystery attributed to women.
In a London Express excerpt a geometry class led by Professor Rost disputes definitions of shapes with students including Teddy. The dialogue mocks jargon as a student says a half circle is a straight mine bent, while the lesson hints at gender biased language in the classroom.
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