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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1922
Page
3
Jean Rood returns to Elmdale after a painful apprenticeship with Razzanti and a failed art career. Linn Mowbray faces a future at the bank while Constance and Miss Constance urge patience. Jean discovers she can cook and finds new purpose, returning to Linn and their home.
In southern Oklahoma near the Texas line sits Platt National Park with 30 healing springs, mostly sulfurous, some bromide rich. Thousands visit Sulphur yearly for relief, camping near the reservation, water bottles aid people at home. Indian legends tie Deerfoot’s tragedy to the springs, saying briny tears gave the waters curative powers.
The article compares apples to a packing-house pig in terms of thorough utilization. It notes pressing for cider and potential vinegar production, pomace pectin extraction for jelly making, and the dried residue used as cattle feed.
The passage traces farm progress from hand binding with cradle and horse drawn reaper to the McCormick binder and modern mechanical tractors. It notes antiquated flails, horse threshing, treadmill threshers now gone about 15 years, and today tractor threshers perform the work.
The lesson centers on Ezra as priest, scribe, and leader who set his heart to seek and obey the law of the Lord. It covers his commission by King Artaxerxes, funds and safety provisions for the caravan, and Ezra’s prayer for divine guidance before a perilous four month journey to Jerusalem. The text highlights faith, obedience, and trust in God’s protection for sacred service.
A Washington author contends that self overrating mirrors undervaluing others, arguing injustice at home breeds no correction abroad and warning against inflated self-assessment and moral complacency.
Franklin counsels that Christian duty requires letting injuries pass by us and not retaliating, framing forgiveness as a tested policy. The remark emphasizes restraint and moral forbearance in the face of offense.
A short reflective note on vanity as the great separator in social interaction, suggesting that offense arising from vanity divides people and shapes behavior.
John Jordan is dead at eighty two. Timrod Tarpy recalls a man who lived quietly, minded his own business, never gossiped, and was misjudged as a slow-minded “all fogy.” He kept to the straight path, paid for what he bought, and avoided prying into others affairs.
In a Louisville Courier-Journal item a man wearing a fez asks who appears in a photograph of Egypt’s new king. The caption notes the resemblance to a Shriner while observers discuss money policy, with most leaning toward the outside view.
A New York dramatist recalls Mrs George Gould entertaining Augustin Daly at Georgian Court. A group asks to visit the hothouses. Daly, in mock authority, grants access and humorously tells them to pick apricots and peaches.
In a Boston Transcript excerpt a suitor declares pride will not accept aid after marriage while the father questions future support. The dialogue centers on expected settlement terms as a condition of union.
A child buys two boxes of fireworks and sparklers, dreaming of being a millionaire before the Fourth of July. The story includes a humorous remark as she contemplates lighting the sparklers and a later courtroom anecdote about a shooting incident with a vivid dialect recounting one witness’s speed.
A Birmingham Age-Herald remark quotes Mr. Peckton saying he avoids public view to prevent voters from contrasting his wife Mrs. Peckton with him, fearing it would imply their marriage was bought for patronage. The exchange notes Mrs. Peckton’s strong campaign and his struggle to stay out of the spotlight.
The Worcester Telegram quotes a remark about freedom in cities where a man cannot enter a theater with his coat on his arm, and cites a Haverhill high school boy required to wear collars, followed by a statistic that the average wage earner in the United States consumes 1,775 pounds of food annually.
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