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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
9
A collage of notes on Congress, press critiques, and social quirks. Items range from Castro and royalty to sleep and disease, weather, and public signs. Mentions Abdul Hamid retirement, Porto Rico capitol plans, and naturalization law quirks alongside literary prize rankings and urban poverty commentary.
An Independent article by W. J. Ghent lauds the Panama Canal Commission workforce. About 31,815 employees, with most assigned to the canal, rail, and commissary duties, are praised for discipline and productivity. Health is improving, with no yellow fever since 1904 and no plague since 1905, while malaria remains reduced.
The New York Post notes a shift in Western views of the East once led by Wall Street. The West now views itself as independent from financial panics, taking control of railways and politics. Western radicalism, economically free silver and trust-taming mix with political reform and direct nominations. The piece weighs whether Western radicalism is justified or overreaching.
In a poetic snippet from Uncle Sam's Magazine, George F. Cable contemplates distant shores and the familiar longing for home. He muses on Mindanao and distant isles, weaving imagery of exile, faith, and the call of home as the wanderer’s hymn resounds.
In a midnight confession, Carson recalls a Derbyshire mine disaster six years earlier, when a ring entombed with a dying man was joined by a second from a loving survivor. The tale ends with a promise and a wife who wears two rings, one from each man.
The Comanche counting system uses a unique base pattern up to ten then combines phrases like ten and ofa mora for eleven, continuing with twenty and one mova for twenty one, and so on up to higher decades. Experts note counting is the main hurdle to mastering the language learned orally due to lack of an alphabet.
The Japan Chronicle claims Corea provided Europe with three innovations. Movable type printing began in Corea in 1324, 126 years before its European origin. It also notes early Corean advances with the mortar and the fron clad, used notably in the Japanese Corean war of 1562 08.
A Washington Star quip imagines a speaker on a mic track contrasting winners and losers. The ready made philosopher Poe prompts doubt as the man replies that wealth may not guarantee happiness. The exchange reflects on material success and its emotional value.
A fragmented literary critique discusses reliance on worn phrases in contemporary writing and the desire for fresh expression. It covers dependence on classic authors, the misuse of quotes, and calls for writers to return to source materials like plants and fibers for paper production while condemning waste in material usage.
In Pasadena California J Bales grows record tomato plants in winter. An eighteen foot ladder aids harvest and three vines stretch thirty feet while seeds planted in May reach twenty feet on a trellis in three months. The plants, of the Ponderosa variety, show unprecedented growth per the Science American report.
The passage urges timely action, noting that procrastination wastes time and urging writers to seize the moment. It cites classic maxims from Hippocrates Dryden Burke Priestley Milton and others, praising perseverance to craft fresh phrases and enrich language for readers’ benefit.
Farmers and scientists explore nonwood fiber sources for paper making as wood pulp may run scarce in coming years. Potential materials include wild hemp in the Southwest, vast corn and cotton stalks, flax remnants, and cotton seed fiber, all currently wasted or underused.
Report describes rapid growth of tomato plants climbing to thirty feet with trunks one and a half inches thick, thriving despite no care or weather protection. Vines bear abundant green and ripe fruit, with exceptionally large fruit and fine flavor noted.
A playful exchange unfolds as a young boy cites lawyer access before answering, an employer scolds the idle office helper, and Tommy negotiates a circus visit with his father. The dialogue highlights family dynamics, teasing, and a child’s cheeky resolve.
In a humorous exchange, a man claims he used a baldness potion from a balreb restorer and ended up completely bald, prompting a brisk retort from Lt Cleveland Lande about the prior assurances and the bottle’s effect.
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