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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
6
A nostalgic poem by Jullae EK. Wetherill recalls a woodland stream and sunlit shore from childhood. It laments the loss of those days as the speaker seeks new gold beyond familiar banks. The verse contrasts past joys with present change and the enduring pull of the remembered water.
Jim Maxson returns home to a weary family torn by secrets and punishment. His father, bound by strict vows, intends to hand him to the authorities, while Maggie Orne and Jim confront danger in a burning tenement. Jim saves others, then bears his father to safety as Maggie faces a climactic choice about faith and sacrifice.
Amid a blaze Maggie Orne watches Jimi cling to a burning window as the crowd urges a rescue. Fire destroys the building as the roof collapses, a dramatic moment captured amid applause and fear.
Dr Hume Griffith recounts two Persian cases from Julia hospital where limb amputation proved necessary. Both men, told they would be crippled even in paradise, were surprised to meet as brothers in affliction. A 12 year old with harelip corrected, elicited joy as he removed his mockery and cried I am no longer a Little devil.
A report explains a Chinese prosecution belief that a criminal’s family bears punishment if he flees the scene, aiming to coerce the culprit back. The piece suggests religious fear motivates prompt compliance with the law, citing John Chineman and a contrast between a boy’s and a mother’s view of greatness.
The Cuba lottery debate centers on whether lottery proceeds count as ordinary island revenues and if the United States should block gambling income to avoid bankruptcy. Editorials urge Cuba to abandon the lottery, seeking lawful revenue alternatives and trimming expenditures to match income. The Journal backs women’s suffrage when majority support exists, urging practical advocacy over political agitation.
A column advocates Illinois Congress of Mothers guidance on prudent spending by housewives and wageworker wives. It promotes food knowledge and cooking classes as social progress, notes dangers facing city girls seeking work, and urges concerted effort by women to push suffrage. Mrs Ellen M Henrotin is cited with an imperative address.
The Brooklyn Life letter asks for statistics on large scale religious revivals and their ultimate results. It questions whether revival waves like Boston's recent trend produce lasting conversion and community purification or mere transient feelings, and requests data to assess long term impact for future Brooklyn revivals.
A New York Press warning describes the potential disaster if Gatun locks fail, detailing how a single lock accident could unleash unstoppable waves and flood the Isthmus, obliterating the Panama Canal and reshaping the isthmus with unimaginable destruction.
A fragmented report notes the German Emperor leaving Potsdam in plain clothes and moving about as an ordinary gentleman while army regalia contrast with his private life. A Bayonne recorder, known as Human Lazarus, faced a case where a woman pressed for punishment against a husband who abused her, urging the judge to sentence him, with the scene unfolding in terse dialogue.
In a tense hearing a woman cried and embraced her husband as they left the court. Lazarus declared a compromise offering six months for each party, signaling an end to the dispute and a quick resolution.
A nostalgic verse recalling pink frocks and shy girls from the past. The speaker names Ines, Jennie, Marion, Ruth, May, and others, wondering if the world has been kind to that merry group as dream memories return. Questions echo about the sweethearts once known.
A reader describes a Brighton writer noting wifely pride seen in a tenement overheard talk about husbands’ shirts. In Wall Street a sign asking not to whistle spurred jokes from messenger boys as office management changed it to a blunt directive. A churchwoman’s broad mindedness is mocked by silence when a denomination is bragged of.
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