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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1907
Page
10
A historical Berkshire estate stretching thousands of acres near Lenox and Stockbridge, once owned by a Shaker community of about 80 people. The article notes dwindling membership, liberalized access, and summer boarders, with Eldress Anne steering the North Family and a single scandal whispered from Mount Lebanon years ago.
A long magazineish piece recounts two related tales of loss and drift. It details aging Shaker members mainly women facing dwindling numbers and a failed attempt by two outsiders to modernize the North family at Mount Lebanon. The other tale follows a New York man and a nearby woman whose lifelong friendship and unspoken love lead to an impending marriage, ending a silent, intimate bond.
An account notes the first common schools in America were created by 1645 legislation in Massachusetts, with the fire town school referenced as opening in Hartford. The fragmentary text hints at early colonial education efforts and regional beginnings.
Marcella Train, a confident New Orleans visitor, and her flirtatious companion Mr Ramsdale board a Memphis to New Orleans train where his wife Laurence Ramsdale exposes his pattern. Marcella schemes a playful payback by arranging a telegraph prank revealing Ramsdale’s infidelity and sending him to a stinging surprise at the gate.
Mrs Ramsdale hurries into a depot near train time and finds her husband. They exchange a surprised greeting as he buys a ticket and moves toward the sleeping car. She mentions a girl she knows headed to New Orleans and hurries to catch up.
Louisiana judge Adolph Meyer, a New Orleans congressman, recalls Butler era in a humorous Civil War anecdote. A friend asks if Butler’s men stole spoons. Meyer says his family stayed home while he fought, and notes soldiers allegedly seized the dinner and stove from his mother’s house, not just spoons.
A mother of many children claims the afternoon nap is growing in popularity and credits it with improving well being. She boasts she is over sixty, cites her glowing complexion, and argues the routine helps everyone from students to workers despite disruptions to routines.
A wealthy man pursued for eight years on murder charges in a southern Italian village near Foggia was found in a garret with a minuscule space of four feet by three by two feet. Police traced the fugitive after a long search and uncovered the hidden shelter where he had concealed himself.
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