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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
2
A Boston Globe poem recalls a singer longing for Sweet Alice who lies under a grave stone. The speaker remembers schoolhouse, brook, and kind master, while weeping at night. The verse dwells on lost love, lonely heart, and mourning beneath trees and a sunny hill.
A duo navigates vanity, pride, and family pressure to marry on their own terms. Millicent's suitor Horace and her cousin plan, argue, and finally consolidate affection while Uncle Horace weighs control. In the end they share a hopeful, unspoken agreement away from judgment.
The Galveston News notes the Atheneum calling Howells sentence the best in recent English writing. It contrasts the ornate description of a cathedral with a Bucyrus Blade mockup stating the cathedral is 400 years old and needs paint, highlighting differing stylistic tastes.
Uncle Charles asks Fred what he would do facing a rattlesnake tiger Indian and a rising foe. The tale veers into a misquoted moral about economy of women and a joke about trimming sleeves to wear more costly garments. It ends with a quip that better to have a poor opinion than none at all.
The United States Mint in Philadelphia operates at full capacity to coin 80 million dollars in 20 dollar gold pieces over three months while high demand for smaller denomination silver coins continues. About 40 million in bullion sits ready, with more arriving, as new, larger coinage machinery is tested. The gold eagle design will change with Oklahoma becoming a state and the motto In God We Trust being removed, a shift described as approved by Roosevelt.
Educational leaders discuss Thomas L Burt's idea to keep schools open all year except public holidays, arguing it would yield about 800 days of instruction with longer summer sessions, higher teacher pay in money, and steadier pupil progress. The piece also notes Boston's revised curriculum emphasizing practical geography, hygiene, and industrial work for sixth graders, plus university fellowships and Colum bian efforts to promote kindness to animals and Esperanto as an international language.
A Treasury report to Congress calls for immediate reform of the national monetary system to prevent financial disasters. Secretary Cortelyou cites hoarded cash, bank runs, and past government fund deposits as signs of systemic weakness, urging remedial legislation amid a strong fiscal surplus and substantial gold holdings.
The Waiaco Woman's Club, led by president Mrs I S Blackwell and Mrs Ellen M Henderson, begins a crusade to curb Christmas gift giving. They argue the shopping mania fosters degeneracy in America and aims to change holiday customs toward genuine joy.
In Chicago the banking sector shows progress toward cash payments and a brighter monetary outlook as terror replies favor early restoration. Trade conditions improve with better tone, but new enterprises are cautious. liquidation of securities continues yet is less disturbing.
New York reports a broader improvement in financial affairs with stronger security markets and a looser money market. The currency premium nears vanishing point, and expectations rise for returning to cash payments within weeks, though trade remains quiet and retail activity dull due to holidays and weather. Collections stay poor, extensions common, and loans remain tight with high rates. Bradstreet's notes U.S. weekly business failures at 250 versus 265 prior week, and Canadian failures at 46.
Market quotations from Chicago to Toledo show cattle hogs and sheep prices varying by city. Notable ranges include Chicago cattle $4.00 to $6.60 and hogs $4.00 to $5.17, Detroit cattle $4.00 to $5.00, Milwaukee wheat $1.05 to $1.07, New York cattle $4.00 to $5.75, and Toledo barley $9.05 per unit.
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