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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1907
Page
6
A miscellaneous collection of satirical and reflective notes on society, politics, manners, and international affairs. It weaves quotations, protests, and curiosities about happiness, aging, opium, prosperity, and the role of women, with musings on science, geology, and the American army, all in a dated newspaper voice.
The piece applauds Justice Brewer and a host of contemporaries who remain active and influential into advanced ages. It argues that age should reflect ripening wisdom, not the calendar, citing figures like Mark Twain, Admiral Dewey, William Howells, Tolstoy, and Julia Ward Howe as examples of sustained vitality and public impact.
Boston newspapers recount Washington birthday and Independence Day observances with limited delight and restraint. Citizens marked the day with meals and moonlit congrats, Harvard students avoided riot by retiring early, while Fourth of July celebrations were calm and joyous with no reported accidents, concluding happiness and night tranquility.
A Chicago Tribune writer notes Willie Meason’s deep devotion to his mother and his reluctance to burden others. One night he calls his father for care, explains a dressmaker’s visit could leave pins on the floor, and the father asks why not call mother. The story underscores Willie’s affectionate family ties.
Fragmentary notes discuss a mind like a tiny organism choosing food, amoeba behavior, and a tree colony that learns harmlessness to a jar. Interwoven are garbled phrases about punishment, a boy seeking square treats, and quirky dialogue about crossing fingers and sleeping infants.
A Chicago diary and correspondence reveal Nicola de Raylan a long masquerade as a man dating from Kiev years earlier her motive was to hide from a secret paternity and secure wealth. The story traces her travels from Russia to Finland Antwerp and finally Chicago where she lived as Nicolai and married twice before dying in Phoenix.
The Kansas City Journal contrasts the acquittals of Judge William G Loving and the Thaw case, arguing drink and dissipations fueled both murders. It notes the verdicts imply awakenings about vice and crime, warning Ave nian youth about the deadly wages of sin, with Ellen Lovington’s daughter left to bear the scandal.
August Valentine Kautz born in Ispringen Germany came to the U S as an infant. He served in the Mexican War as a private and later graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1839. He fought in the Northwest then Civil War, commanding Second Ohio Cavalry and leading cavalry brigades in Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia and Petersburg. He helped thwart John Morgan’s raid and led the Wilson raid advance cutting roads from Richmond.
A New Broadway Magazine piece sketches a bustling grand hotel in New York where a global mix of guests from eastern potentates to European magnates throng corridors and banquet halls. It paints hallways full of diplomats and travelers, with colorful scenes of fashion, perfumes, and political celebrities amid a night of elaborate entertainments.
The passage portrays a dramatis personae entering a room where a wife pursues a husband’s suit and a tall western man with a sombrero eyeing them, while an oriental visitor stares boldly. A New Yorker seeks a late business appointment with a Chicago man who offers no reply.
The life of English antiquary John Stow is recounted born about 1525 to a poor family he learned tailoring and spent forty years among needles and thread. He became a devoted collector of old memoirs and spent years travelling to gather manuscripts then in old age he received royal permission to beg and died two years later at about eighty.
The biological survey of the Agriculture Department deems skunks valuable for farms as grasshopper exterminators. Experts say to gather a working fore and release them in infested fields, viewing skunks as better cultivated than destroyed.
A German infantryman from the thirty first regiment seeks lifelong exemption from two yearly holidays under his Adventist sect. He honors Saturday and Sunday as rest days, refusing drills or duties. Each rule breach adds five months and one day to his term, totaling seventeen years with the threat of eternal servitude in the Kaiser's army unless mercy is shown.
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