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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1905
Page
7
A collection of editorial voices warns against over medical certainty and panic about disease. It cites a reported death from an antitoxin precaution and urges restraint, while citing debates in Montreal Star and Chicago Post on government crop reports and statistics.
The Washington Star argues that modern life should revive old-fashioned courtesies. Courtesy builds goodwill, fuels trust, and boosts patronage more than petty profits. Mutual kindness and reciprocity sustain commerce and soften life’s hardships.
The piece argues for a government crop report cost analysis and methods, stressing farmers’ need for early, reliable outlooks on crop conditions and supply. It notes that current pricing relies on auctions of future deliveries and calls for clearer data on probable supply during the crop year.
The New York Tribune notes a broad campaign by the Federation of Churches to keep church work active year round. It argues that summer programs should serve not only regular congregants but also nonmembers, emphasizing humanitarian and evangelical aims over strict sectarianism. The effort seeks to protect nearly 100 million in church assets by sustaining programs through summer and winter.
Chicago News notes the Lewis Banking Enterprise promissory model drew 65,000 stockholders and about 500,000 depositors before post office authorities halted it. It alleges Lewis funded ventures with bank funds, lacking personal investment, and warns the case underscores demand for a government safeguarded postal savings bank system to protect rural savers.
The Black Sea, a major waterway between Asia and Europe, witnessed a mutiny on the ship Kniaz Potemkine. Its ensuing terror damaged cities along the coast, costing 1,100 lives and causing extensive property losses. The sea connects to the Mediterranean via the Bosporus and Dardanelles, with the Ventkale straits linking to the Sea of Azov.
A fragmentary historic sketch describes the Black Sea as a vast inland waterway of about 180 000 miles of surface area, with the Isle of Serpents island and a seaworthy center depth of 1500 to 2000 feet. It notes Odessa as the largest port city, Sebastopol as a fortress, Trebizend as an early settlement, and Varna as a Turkish fortress, while recounting its ancient name and the wars involving Persia, Byzantium, Turks, and Russia.
A New York Press stance on women keeping hats in theaters leads to a comical yet telling incident in Daly’s Theater. A couple in the second tier block the view behind them while a man in the orchestra tries to adapt by removing his Gainsborough silk hat, provoking a chorus of shouts and a social lesson on millinery etiquette.
A lyrical meditation on the Colorado River shaping the canyon through ages. The piece praises carved rock cathedrals and sunset glow, calling the river’s voice a sunlit spirit in stone that leads the soul toward an open day.
A young woman returning to Revelstone endures hardship and neglect at home, faces her dying husband John, and in a moment of fear and regret seeks to save him. As she pleads, his torpor yields to recognition, and she learns the value of love over restless longing. The tale ends with a transformed, remembered vow.
The Atlanta Constitution contemplates aging, illness, and mortality with reflections on growing old, seeking doctors, and the fatigue of afterlife. It compares life to baseball with three strikes, and ponders waking and sleeping through existence. It muses that happiness and memory fade as time passes.
A Yonkers Statesman joke about weight before and after a meal. The boarding house lady asks if a man’s weight changes before eating, and a thin boarder quips that there’s no difference if he eats there.
Torquay town authorities pass a by law prohibiting the use of offensive language inside private residences. The measure, aimed at curb ing public disturbance, imposes penalties for uttering profane terms within dwellings where it can be heard by neighbors.
A miscellany of curiosities and brief notices chronicles diverse topics. Highlights include economic figures on mint production, a tourist inscription in England, Alaska’s first woman missionary visit, Oneida and Sioux workers in St. Louis transit, Filipino women mastering Western card games, a request for spectacles from an Alaskan missionary, and Livingston’s vanished African lakes Shirwa and Nyami amid inland water changes.
An acquaintance on a train muses about writers age and charm as Miss Lucy Larcom is described as a plump housekeeperly figure in an unfashionable bonnet. A London host introduces a countrywoman to distinguished literary guests but she finds real character impressions elusive until Browning, joked as a poet, proves intensely unsatisfactory in person.
The community seeks an architect who can design a single house adaptable for a growing family. The plan should allow rooms to flex and reduce as children marry and depart, eventually returning to a compact original layout.
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