30 Dec 1909
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
1
A fragmented Register Tribune page recalls diverse topics from social reforms to medical cures. It notes a Harvard professor proposing revised commandments, discusses poverty and genius, and cites physician Dr. Lambert claiming a plant-based remedy can treat drug and alcohol addiction, urging open medical trials.
A reflective piece on at home days as a remedy for social bustle and deception. It argues for personal conscience, private retreat, and guests respecting chosen times to avoid interruptions. The essay laments missed golden hours and promotes thoughtful hosting as a remedy for modern life.
A table story unfolds as a girl misreads a passing scene at a marble table. A frail, trembling elderly woman sits with a strong young man who isn’t her son. The girl, relieved the woman has company, watches them part ways, realizing her assumption was wrong.
An article notes M Dienert city engineer in Paris developed an acoustic cone device to hear subterranean water. A small inner cone directs bass toward the narrow end, with a noise shield. A hole dug in ground or a water receptacle hosts the device and rubber tubes lead to the ears to hear water sounds. Field test in a marine valley found water at about sixteen yards depth after three days, aiding farmers needing water from distant river.
Cosino G Readily argues crime policy should focus on reform rather than punishment. He notes global shifts toward criminology as science, cites abolition of capital punishment in places, and warns that ending death penalties is part of a broader humanitarian wave.
In a column by G. Edward Fuller the author argues industrial pride is essential to national strength. He laments the neglect of work and trade, warns against chaos in art without vocational focus, and cites Japan and Germany as models for integrating industrialism with culture and education.
The passage argues that only through enlightened industrialism can society reach a state where depravity and poverty are impossible. It criticizes altruism in trade and optimistic rhetoric, asserting that scientific meliorism endures wear and tear, while healthy industrialism provides the safest means. It cites the workshop, laboratory, and marts of trade as arenas eroding barriers between races and classes.
Edwin Q. Cooley argues for broad expansion of industrial education beyond colleges. He notes projects in cities and rural areas differ by local conditions and calls for secondary schools focusing on agriculture and related trades to fit the industrial world. He urges public schools to provide necessary facilities.
A sermon argues against steering youths into preacher, doctor, or lawyer roles. It asserts nature assigns each person a suitable work and stresses parents should not force a boy into a chosen profession. The piece favors allowing individual talent to guide career paths.
A dozen Marconi operators and repairs staff guard a cliffside wireless hut above Battle Harbor Newfoundland. Commander Peary used their long wire to transmit the discovery of the North Pole, sending thousands of words over Cape Ray to relay the tale along a chain of stations from Belle Isle to Point Amour and beyond. The endurance of these men, working twenty hours a day for days, underscores the lone, perilous work of Arctic wireless communication.
A Yale ethnologist calls Frederick Burton the world's leading expert on American Indian lore, lamenting the scarcity of Indian lore students. He recalls Burton’s vexed humor about explaining poetry to a dinner companion and a witty exchange about lectures and Keats. A light aside notes a boy’s idea of hardship washing his neck and garments daily.
The article outlines a winter dining trend toward fewer courses and simpler form while maintaining luxury. Openers include caviar or oysters, with salads minimized and vegetables featured in limited trio combinations. Wines must be high quality, and imported mineral water after-dinner gains popularity as a digestive aid.
A collage of vignettes recalls pickpocket antics outside a lawyer’s office, a Louisiana gent with punctual manners, a theater super’s gripes over parts, and a long monologue of domestic life. It also includes a widow’s dramatic family tale involving a mistaken child, a missing husband, and an affidavit confirming a long-lost son.
Michigan City warden James A. Reid probes making agricultural implements without patents to employ prison labor, guided by Governor Marshall who seeks to embarrass the harvester trust and provide inmate work. He cites prison-made binder twine as already pressuring prices and notes possible legal and material hurdles if the trust blocks sales.
A mother, Ama Bock of 107 Chylytopher Street New York, seeks alimony and counsel fees in a separation suit over custody of three children. She accuses her husband and his now deceased mother of substituting the firstborn to gain control, alleging long standing deceit and removal of the child.
The largest gray wolf seen in this parish was killed by Owen Wooman about three miles south. It terrorized Seventh and Eighth Wards for years, killed hundreds of sheep and hogs. A. M. Edwards offered a $100 reward. The wolf was on display in Ward Hall with 10 cent admission and 10 percent to schools. Weems, Howse, and others observed the carcass. the wolf weighed about 80 pounds, stood 3½ feet high, with a flat head and decayed teeth.
A Virginian farmer’s wife defuses a gas well near her kitchen as workers fear a possible explosion. A rough driller recounts how he paid ten dollars to extinguish a Dutch oven blaze rather than risk igniting gas. He concedes with reluctance that women are risky but capable under pressure.
Fragmentary overheard dialogue describes an uneasy room scene with talk of spirit noises and a witch. A comrade dismisses it as likely a beg story, while stray references to a Baltimore American item and far distant economic notes appear in the murky text.
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