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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
3
A garbled 1900s era column ridicules suffrage, aviation promises, and social norms. It mocks women who wear hats, cites a flying machine forecast across the Atlantic in eighteen hours, jokes about Turkish troubles, and lampoons public education along with political leaders. Multiple names and places appear in disjoint phrases.
Derailed OCR fragment recounts a shop owner who closed and retired then returned to satisfy a quirky clientele with unconventional food items. The resident remarks on dubious quality while noting the controversial, unsavory history surrounding the offer. The piece hints at a reverent yet critical atmosphere about the chef and the odd fondue served.
The passage argues that humanity steadily advances in education, morality, and social structures. It cites improved legal protections, humane treatment of criminals, learned judges, and the spread of charity. It contrasts old cruelties with modern progress, noting gains in health, longevity, and public welfare through hospitals, schools, and support for the needy.
A Modesto engineer J Lyman uses hollow cylinders around inner and outer faces of a concrete wall to drain water as concrete sets. Water-filled cylinders are extracted after setting, leaving spaces filled with concrete to ensure uniform cure. This method has been applied to roads, wells, bridges, and irrigation structures, claimed to yield crack-free, strong concrete.
The item surveys varied topics from mountain heights in Pennsylvania to Ottoman morals and suffrage. It notes the Mexican government importing tricycles for letters, estimates global eyelets at four million yearly, and U.S. electric railways surpassing two hundred thousand miles. It mentions Great Tom’s bell at Oxford, a Turkish women’s paper editor, and Mrs. Crannell leading a New York suffrage oppose group. It reports Annie S. Peck climbing Mount Hunza, a goat book promoting rural goat husbandry, an Egyptian Fayum elephant origin find, Mrs. Family Treat as a pioneering court reporter, and Hobart College’s William Smith College for Women opening with coeducation debate. It also references dolls in Ceylon and a curious English-speaking boy’s word “Tomorrow.”
The New York Independent quotes Marconi on wireless tech transforming travel. Electric propulsion and storage batteries will replace coal, with sun energy stored for global shipping. He argues college and broad disciplinary training prepare leaders for a modern, complex economy.
Charles F. Thing argues that college training equips leaders to solve future American problems. He asserts trained college men weigh evidence, discern essential factors, and guide consolidation of complex social financial governmental and industrial forces. He notes other capable leaders exist but emphasizes college graduates’ pivotal role.
A critical essay on chivalry and male friendship, noting men’s attentive treatment of women and their growth through experience. It argues men often choose friends poorly, recalling college days and social circles, while praising the charm of a sweet, talkative girl but questioning lasting admiration.
Emma Goldman, born 1870 in Kopno Russia, rose to become a notorious anarchist icon in America. The piece recounts decades of police pursuit, trials, and exiles as authorities battled her influence, including associations with Berkman and attacks linked to Czolgocz.
The article traces forks from a luxury 300 years ago to general use in mid seventeenth century England. It notes avoidance by sovereigns until early modern times, the ewer and towels at royal meals, and the gradual spread from nobility to commoners, with early forks having two prongs and later adding a third.
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