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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
4
A poignant poem from Zion's Herald depicts a mother’s sorrow as a newborn dies in her arms at dawn. The infant’s brief life ends with Death nearing, yet the mother finds enduring peace in the belief of an immortal flower that remains safe beyond the sorrow.
In a rural October county fair romance, Tom Dixon and Bessie Taylor become engaged but fall out over a missed date and pride. After a winter of estrangement, a March sugar season brings a chance meeting in Dixon’s sugar bush where misread signals are cleared and they reconcile with gifts of leeks and maple sugar wax.
A Russian department head, G Tarassoff, bans a woman named Kondakoff from any access to his cabinet. He labels “the female element” as unsuitable and states he will not see or employ women in his department, urging them to seek other patrons.
Mrs Taylor greets Tom and Aunt Sat in Utica Globe excerpt as they arrive with a rumored recha nied maple angar and share a kiss with Bessie. The scene shows family banter and affectionate greetings during a domestic moment.
A Bunzlau woman stored her debentures and shares in bank safekeeping by sending registered envelopes to a fictitious Berlin addressee with her name on the sender line. The scheme failed after post officials returned the packets, exposing the ruse and prompting banks to seek stronger checks. The case underscores clever fraud by avoided fees and highlights postal safeguards.
Practical notes on a simple water gate using posts and pulleys to control flood flow, plus a homemade log sled called a snapdragon used in lumber camps. Also includes remarks on taxation methods, yellow butter without coloring, and late fall plowing to combat May beetle grubs.
The four dairy barns at the World’s Fair in St Louis will be completed so cows can be brought to the exposition grounds before year end. Barns are octagonal, 100 feet diameter, with 38 stalls in a semicircle, a 12 foot rear promenade, and box stalls for calving cows and bulls. The second floor will hold four feed bins and sleeping quarters for staff. Chief Coburn and Secretary Mills praise the layout for stock inspection and care.
Charles G. D. Hoberts in Leste's Popular Monthly describes a muskrat built water gate residence. The entrance reaches from the bank into a dry exit under ice and tall reeds, leading to a two-chamber nest with a main passage to the creek and a secret escape tunnel. The structure withstands spring floods but is vulnerable during drought when mink raids may seize the citadel.
A garbled, antiquated collection of snippets covers a tragic phrase about a failed marriage and a later happiness, a partial note on a Philadelphia Telegraph line, and a historical digression on beds and bedding from medieval times. The piece shifts through memes of love, debt, and domestic furnishings with scattered quotes and misheard phrases.
A fragmentary public notice style passage shows a terse exchange between an irate man and a thoughtful young woman, followed by garbled references to a place in New York and a colorfully described skyline or crowd. The piece hints at social tensions and urban atmosphere. Entities are unclear due to damaged OCR.
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