30 Sep 1909
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1909
Page
1
A garbled Sunday column from The Register Fribune notes scattered musings on travel, science, fashion, crime, sports, and politics. It jokes about Bleriot, Crete, Panama, and Mars while listing odd anecdotes about theft, kidnapping, church choirs, and a hypothetical signal through a sunlit hole to Mars.
A McClure's article discusses fly dangers and smart disposal, noting England’s clean-up work and domestic hygiene. It urges proactive home design to deter flies, describes methods to reduce attracting smells, and stresses civic and private duties to prevent hatching and spread of germs.
A column of humorous observations on married life and social manners, from flirtatious lines to the quirks of spouses. A short anecdote about a child visiting a park swan boat ride and a quip about a church social’s empty look before attendees arrive. Boundary notes on taste and parental approval appear in quotes.
Poem fragment describing a house built by dreams not mortals with portals wide and bloom scented walls. It extols frescoes by dawn and dusk and treasures revealable in ceilings, gardens, and halls. The voice declares being God’s happy tenant in this dear house of dreams.
In moonlit night Gerald Alston, a rector, spies a white figure in his vegetable garden and suspects a thief. A woman returns the next night to pay for vegetables with lettuce and currency, revealing she is a visitor with maid Susanne absent. They discuss harvests, finances, and a budding connection as May approaches.
In a country house romance, Constance flaws about love vs fortune. She longs for Gerald Alston and his cottage with a garden, while Aunt Anne urges the old social routes. Herbert Wilcox’s marriage to another shifts prospects as Constance and Gerald wed quietly and move into the cottage.
A Kansan City inventor touts a fly trap claiming 10 090 flies per hour but the Dallas News questions the invention’s value. It argues cleanliness, not gadgets, solves the fly problem, noting regular sweeping, use of kerosene, and keeping fetid areas pristine limit fly numbers and danger.
The piece recalls Macready’s US Hamlet rehearsal clash and a king’s stage revenge as he died where he chose. William Terriss and others adjusted to stage pranks with humor. The text closes with local slang and a Boston Herald food line about hot blackula in gravy.
A collage of anecdotes and sketches features colonial banter at a Florence dinner with a French setting, Jerrold’s quips about first nights, a Paris salon joke on silence and pudding, and a rambling western land tour where cowboys and cattle drives clash with an auto. The tone reflects witty social cruft and travel humor.
A Brady Texas dispatch to the New York Sun describes unwritten but rigid rules for auto mobility in ranch country. Cowboys shoot at or disable fast cars to stop perceived slights, as in a Brady incident where Dick Davis sped past a mule herd and lost two rear tires to rifle fire.
The article recounts Dr T L Pennell's sixteen years in northwestern India near the Afghanistan frontier. It notes clashes with local doctors and mollahs, the shift from traditional cures to Western treatments, and a humorous exchange about the sun and hell. Pennell vows to teach fundamentals from the beginning.
An inebriated Texan tale recalls the Sam Houston stage coach once ran Austin to Brenham starting 1841. It suffered many gunshot scars, held up by bandits, guarded for Indian raids, and outlived by the railroad before being torn apart in an Austin alley as city legislation forced its removal.
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