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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1903
Page
10
The article traces the push for female independence in law, citing Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell’s 1863 protest against marriage laws. It notes reforms over the last fifty years, including women’s rights to hold property, make wills, contract, and act without spousal consent, reflecting a shift toward equal status in marriage.
Marion Drake, former governor of Iowa, died at his home in Davenport. Born 1850 in Schuyler County Illinois, he led a wagon train to California, served in the Civil War as a brigadier general, then built railroads and founded Drake University. He left a $4 million estate, four daughters and two sons, and his widow now directs his unfinished church project where a dog companion is buried with him.
In Naples near Santa Barbara a largely built church serves as a sepulcher for a man and a dog. The inscription honors John Williams, Naples founder, and the town long lacked a church until philanthropist Jot E H Williams funded and delivered a new church with early construction challenges and costly materials.
An Indianapolis News excerpt notes a humorous Englishman’s observations on women’s restraint and capability. He lists traits such as holding tongues, fact accuracy, complimenting others, educating the mind, managing finances, and separating business from feeling, asserting a woman can do these things if she chooses.
The piece advises mothers on passing long hours with recovering children using art reproductions, animal paper strips, and simple craft materials. It stresses keeping tasks light, varied, and voluntary, avoiding coercion, and notes cartridge paper and colored backgrounds enhance displays.
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer records a brief, odd exchange about a sister at a recent wedding. The dialogue hints at memory gaps and social curiosity, noting the speaker as the groom and suggesting a distant personal connection.
A brief admonition urges personal authenticity over concern for neighbors' opinions, encouraging self trust and confidence in choices without seeking external approval.
A historical account details extravagant spending and corruption linked to the Panama Isthmus project. It notes de Lesseps failures, abandoned works, and ghostly remnants along the site. The piece highlights American takeover and the push toward a canal route, contrasting Nicaragua as an alternative.
A historical survey traces panama Isthmus canal plans from early exploration to the present, noting De Lesseps efforts, French mismanagement, and the shift to a U S led project. It explains route debates, costs, and technical challenges including tide locks, dredging, and the Culebra summit cut amid Panama’s high elevations.
A bandmaster recalls a funeral engagement with no rehearsal. While a solemn measure played as the coffin lowered, a trombonist unexpectedly blasted a loud note, waking mourners. The German musician claimed he misheard a note and played it, mistaking a moose for the music.
Texas alone markets about 50 million dollars worth of cattle each year as industry figures highlight the state’s dominant role in cattle commerce.
The New York Sun recounts Admiral Philips’s humane act aboard the Texas before the Spanish American War. He spared a machinist from a one o’clock boat assignment, sending him ashore to Phoebus to visit family and return by dawn, aiding morale during the ensuing fight.
A detailed note describes the papabote, a shy plover relative, that fattens on the Spanish fly a corrosive insect. The bird is large as a woodcock, gray plumage, long bill, rises early, and can be shot only by slow stalking from horse or wagon amid feeding grounds. The insect pest devastates crops while the bird helps control it, bursting open when shot.
The French minister of marine informs port officials that there is no legal interdiction against women being on a ship's crew. Women may not navigate as captains, but cannot be prevented from embarking as crew members on fishing smacks.
A yacht owner discovers his Fin cook and deckhand hides a wife in Finland. He boasted of buying a ty-dollar lease from his sailor earnings, but when asked why his wife cannot join, the man says she dislikes the climate. The piece ends with a Punch-era quip on hunting and big game.
A mosaic of humorous asides and quips from era papers, featuring playful exchanges about marriage, wealth, manners, and politics. Snappy lines include a mother while tucking in a daughter, a dogged horse dealer, and a joke on a three part domestic team, all peppered with city-sourced banter.
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