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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
7
Professor L H Bailey extols agriculture as a true education that teaches problem solving through hands on work. He argues farms train practical thinking, make youths self reliant, and prepare them to run successful ventures in cities and rural life alike. The lecture urges embracing science and business to make farming pay and invites living the country life as the real path.
The author argues for law changes that cap stock and bond levels to match invested capital, removing a major motive for consolidation. Such a rule would have limited the rise of modern combines, reducing magnate power and potentially increasing employment while preserving educational support.
A discussion on how growing networks in big cities strain memory for faces. Frequent introductions lead to missed names and unrecorded features, increasing the chance of forgetting faces amid expanding acquaintance lists.
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw argues against class preaching in churches urging that gospel outreach should be free of social, financial, or moral distinctions. He warns against preaching to the poor or rich as such and calls for inclusive ministry within church walls.
Miss Helen J. Clark often demonstrates machines nationwide and outperforms male operators. She sets 2,500 characters of movable twelve point type per hour for an eight hour day, earns 130 dollars monthly plus expenses, and believes machinery offers continuous mental growth.
A poem in the voice of longing by George P Morris. The speaker swears devotion, saying loneliness grips his heart when others share the beloved, yet he trusts her fidelity. He calls her a guiding star and vows the heart will always turn to her despite life’s trials.
Mrs Eliza Soliday pushes for lavish gowns and parties for Elise while her husband William radios in scarce profits. A surge of envy, debt, and social status ends with shocking headlines: Charles Soliday arrested, his alleged plunder confessed. The couple faces a moral reckoning as Elise and the sisters react to the news.
William Soliday notes a $50 payment from an old account for a gift to their little girl. Elise Soliday leads the graduating class in a simple gown, drawing praise from Mrs Soliday and a pragmatic husband who praises her beauty and modest outfits.
Harry N. Roach once secretary to James G. Blaine lives in a log cabin on Bruce's Lake twelve miles east of Vincennes Indiana. He keeps to himself except for his bulldogs cats and reminiscences of government officials and the War Department. He claims to possess a copper lined box buried there containing dark secrets of Washington.
Miss Edna Dickerson a Chicago court stenographer has inherited 2 000 000 from her second cousin Albert Johnson. He had never met her until her care of his mother drew his attention. Johnson died recently and left her the sum. his brother Dr Asa Johnson contests but the courts have sided with her as executrix. Dickerson is 84 and has lived in Chicago ten years.
A humorous column notes how common phrases lose meaning as they bounce between speakers. The piece uses a dialogue about someone at the bottom and top of a ladder, urging speed with a caustic wink and a homely metaphor about a silver lining in every mirror.
A reflective poem recalls earlier courtship along a hazy riverbank near a mill dam. The speaker remembers willows, a lone dragonfly, and whispered words shared with a lover, contrasting a faded memory with present distance. The piece preserves the tone of a Waverley Magazine sentimental vignette.
A professor recounts to his daughter Estelle the doomed romance of her mother, a gifted woman torn between wealth and love. He recalls her first marriage, the wealth, the eventual ruin, and the night she chose him again. The tale ends with the mother’s dying blessing and Estelle’s nightly gaze at the stars.
From the Stormington desk the profession notes a new vegetable called the pota to is claimed to be invented prompting a humorous remark about existing vegetables. A separate note jokes about a girl who can love only once dedicating most of her time to a mirror.
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