21 Jan 1909
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1909
Page
1
A scrambled, OCR damaged page fragment blends social satire, science oddities, and travel notes. It mentions Rome, Nero, Panama locusts, a New Jersey mouse scare, Roosevelt’s parcel post, Paul the baby emperor of China, and Cuba’s future prosperity. Tone mimics a temperate editorial miscellany.
The article praises Dorald Grant Mitchell as a major American writer from the pre Civil War era, noting his place among retained English literary giants and the slow, reflective style of his era. It contrasts old fashioned essayistic work with modern demand for quick reading and celebrates Mitchell’s contributions to national literature, including his essays and “Hevertes of a Bachelor.”
An amusing telegrams tale details Mr Pogson receiving news of three grandsons born to his sons in various locales. He replies with humorous orders for celebratory baby carriages and promptly pays the resulting bills, including a final message to send twelve dollars and a half for a plush carriage, while joking about crowding and kin.
The invitation announces a marriage ceremony at the house of the bride's mother. Attendees are requested to respond to the invitation. The couple named are Augustus Clay Tubasou and Chloe Martiday.
The text pieces show Apster and Mr Cunnrox discussing promissory notes and fraud in a stylized exchange. Washington Star attribution appears, mentioning Indo and weathered advice. A separate line references Nany and a belief in cleverness, all within a muddled, diary-like excerpt.
Report from Philadelphia notes a con scheme where two or more impostors rented hotel suites to lure tailors. They requested winter wardrobes and luxury cloth samples, then vanished after collecting thousands of sample cards and patterns. Investigators traced shipments to Broad Street, uncovering theft of high end fabrics by the pair.
A tale describes two explorers led by Lient Robertson taking camel and tripod to a remote canyon mouth in Sho stone mowntaine Wyoming. They witness a vast rock wall, a dark green canyon, and a deadly spring filled with noxious gases that killed nearby animals, suggesting an earthquake formed the canyon rather than erosion.
A muddled dialogue features a narrator asserting health after a ride through with degulition and thumping sounds. The dovter claims no trace of parlor disease, requesting steep dollars, while a patient responds with relief and a mock warning about heart disease.
Messina in northwest Sicily, beside the Strait of Messina, is described as a historic, once great urban center. The account traces its rise and fall from Zancle through Greek, Carthaginian, Roman, and Norman rule, noting fort sites, scenic spots, and a devastating plague and earthquakes that shaped its population and trade.
The piece recounts early electric telegraph use in Persia and a vivid anecdote of villagers’ reactions to a telegraph and clock, including a bold man who touches live terminals and feels a “bite.” It notes American engineers expanding river and rail projects, and Argentina’s pull for workers and horses amid U S law changes, highlighting Buenos Aires as a vast, bustling Spanish speaking city.
In Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, American business leaders and engineers, led by William Dudley of Brazil at the New Willard Hotel, push rapid industrial development. The region, among Brazil’s richest, enjoys a temperate climate similar to that of the United States, fueling optimism.
A fragment notes an honor awarded to Brych for carrying favor with men, praising a woman who understood the men and was content with them. The legible text suggests admiration but lacks full context or dates.
The article outlines Sicily as Italy’s largest island with about 9 700 square miles area and populations around 2 927 001 in 1801 and 8 529 206 in 1901. It notes mountains traverse the island, Mt Etna towering near the eastern shore, rugged coasts, short swift rivers, sulphur wealth, and exports of sulphur, rock salt, and asphalt. It mentions deforestation, agriculture as main industry, vine and fruit cultivation, and 20 000 offshore workers in deep sea fisheries, alongside deplorable labor conditions in sulphur work. It adds modest railways, inadequate elementary schools, and colleges in Palermo Messina and Syracuse. The piece ends with a reader’s nostalgic personal remark about tobacco coupons and trading stamps.
A fragmented note cites a passage from the American Naturalist on heredity and hair traits, discussing parental influence on children's hair forms and the likelihood of curly haired offspring. The text mentions parental combinations producing straight, wavy, or curly hair and the probabilistic outcomes.
A garbled OCR snippet describes a domestic dispute with a woman speaking about her husband and a gas-related incident. The text is incomplete and unclear about specifics.
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