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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
7
A nostalgic poem from Leslie's Weekly recalls a rural autumn scene. Children gather in a red barn for a pumpkin pie feast as harvest fields shine in sunshine and a cool breeze carries memory of home and old traditions. The speaker longs for one homemade pumpkin pie.
A desperate wife endures years of neglect and abuse as she plans escape with her children. After her husband returns home late, a tense night unfolds with police questions and a staged alibi. She hides her partner in an old bed while a search rattles the household, and she comforts a frightened infant as dawn nears.
A discussion on the modern broncho horse, its cross breeding, and changes from rugged park horse to refined saddle horse. Observes mingling with white blue gray thoroughbreds, improved form, improved endurance, yet retaining broncho bone structure and grit. Notes shift in grazing, growth, and use from wild west to cultivated range.
A collection of humorous maxims and anecdotes on manners dress and behavior from Harper’s Weekly. It contrasts fashion as a weapon with the world’s quirks and a child’s mischief with parental admonition. Notable lines question how honesty and duty sit with social vanity and family life.
A Philadelphia Ledger item recalls a Mast clyer ferryboat conversation between a wheelwright and a shopgirl. The man claims work at Hanks & Co.’s repository for eatrigges gentlemen and asks about Shurgiuer's establishment, prompting a witty retort on laughter and class.
A mosaic of jokes and comic exchanges from newspapers, featuring witty exchanges about court appearances, marriage, manners, and daily life. Items reference Tolson and various fictional respondents to social quirks, with light political and cultural jabs. Notable bits include clerks, teachers, travelers, and a mix of British and American tabs.
Heaussines in Belgium hosts an annual marriage fair begun in 1902 by spinsters. Young women invite countryside men to a public celebration after betrothal, with a “gonter” toast. Over the years engagements rose to fifty last year, drawing candidates by special trains from France, Germany, and Russia. this year demands more reinforcement as international turnout grows.
Ancient notes discuss Siberian capitals securing British financing for northern Asia railway ventures and copper iron coal and other minerals. Additional items cover weather barometers and sea level changes, ozone formation, an herb Eupatorium rebau dianum with sugarlike sweetness, and early plant pathology efforts including crop disease losses and spraying interventions.
A Town Without Taxes in Sweden named Orsuo has no taxes. Over thirty years authorities sold trees worth over one million pounds and, through replanting, ensured smaller income every thirty or forty years. Because of the source of commercial wealth there are no taxes and local railways and telephones are free, as well as education and many other things.
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