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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
6
A New York missionary leader denounces a proposal allowing American women to teach Chinese men, calling it a source of moral corruption that would harm both Chinese communities and inexperienced young women. She cites Free China attitudes and warns of long term social harm in daily intimate contact, contrasting with a blunt innkeeper's ad in London.
J A Austin of New York urges action to stop wholesale bird slaughter in Florida for hat plumage. He notes three years of feather theft, the decline of herons, and calls for measures like Britain to ban import or export of wild bird plumage with limited exceptions.
A concerned voice discusses the impact of modern trends on young women and moral standards, warning of tragedy from improper conduct and the complicity of guardians. The piece shifts to praise Audubon efforts to curb bird slaughter, arguing birds underpin economic health, ecology, and national resources as scavengers and beauty.
A dated opinion notes that advertising should be businesslike, yet an unusual photomrapher advertises baby photos with candor about flaws. The quirky copy invites parents to bring their babies, promising a candid view if the babies won’t cooperate, highlighting unexpected frankness in ads.
A brief humorous fragment recalls a couple attempting to repair unused scales. The man assembles the parts and tests the balance by placing a pamphlet on one plate. The scale reads 20, prompting exaggerated pride from the man and the wife’s dry push for better accuracy. The tale ends with a cautionary line about avoidance of overconfidence.
A long Tribune style survey notes diverse items from 1908: Germany to have an English meter, a blind Parisian saving four parishioners, record dog team miles in Alaska, Norway's electric pig iron plant, rumors of a London fire alert during a bishop’s walk, and U S land area figures. It covers leprosy, a judge and counsel exchange, battleship armor specs, police chief Regan, European snowfalls, Australian dingoes, a Wagner souvenir, reinforced concrete railroad poles, and peanut industry details from Virginia to New York.
The peanut trade, valued at about 12 million dollars yearly, fuels a vast industry across eastern Virginia and North Carolina. Smithfield, Virginia, emerges as a world peanut center with P. D. Gwaltney at the helm, turning small farms into a thriving market after pioneering buying and basic processing in the 1870s.
A new food reformer advocates skipping breakfast to curb appetite arguing two meals suffice for non laboring men. Critics, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, warn such a plan risks prolonged fasting and crowding meals later. The discussion notes three essential nutrition forms and stresses nutritive foods over excess quantity.
The page surveys diverse eccentric notes from various locales: Chanute Kansas famed as a high flyer, Kansas farmers buying autos sparking town debate, Chicago appointing a first policewoman, Mars life speculation, and a mix of curiosities from New York to St Louis.
A collage of notes covers university student totals in France, pulp fiber studies, Salvini’s forthcoming autobiography, Argentina’s beef imports to England, women prisoners in England, Berlin butchery training gear, King’s College home economics study, all steel streetcars for the St Louis company, a Cadiz public schools English writing example, prairie dog extermination in the Arizona New Mexico region, and poison-based prairie dog control techniques with wheat baits carried by riders.
A look at old sporting feats compares Lord Home’s 1796 salmon catch of 36 fish to modern records. It highlights endurance in fishing with long rods, Lord Malmesbury’s 64 987 shots and 38 454 game killed over 40 years, Horatio Ross’s high pigeon match scores, and other rare feats noted in TitBits.
A New York inventor offers a window refrigerator using a wire mesh oblong box hung inside a window. It allows air flow to keep fruits vegetables and other food fresh longer while protecting contents from insects. The device reduces ice usage and strengthens window position with end supports and rods.
The article describes a bottle stand with third hour compartments and a black mechanism that fires at a set hour, guiding a tray system via a clock shaft. An Oklahoma maker develops a horn violin hybrid that produces unusual sounds, worn under the chin and bow-played, unlike standard fiddle notes.
An Arkansas inventor creates a medicine chest that improves on timely dosing and prevents mix ups. The cabinet features a blind with two lids, a Myrtle door for bottle access, and an interior set of revolving trays labeled by minute and hour marks to organize medicines.
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