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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
2
A lyrical fragment describes cold skies and snow covered hills and a warm hearth. The speaker finds home and ruddy warmth in the sound of a cricket and crackling fire as wind howls outside.
A writer Noel Ife, once successful blending pathos with humor, recalls a past marriage and a missing child on Christmas Eve. His friend Jim Courtenay visits. Noel wrestles with loss, guilt, and the impulse to write love stories that pay. Pearl Clayton’s departure haunts the memory as he struggles to finish his work.
A fragmented reminiscence closes the year with Noel and Pearl reuniting as bells ring Peace on Earth. A social note contrasts watchnight customs across faiths and a playful street scene with youth and romance themes.
A reflective scene recalls a writer's memories of Pearl and a five year span from Christmas morning to married life. Noel imagines his vanished days as Pearl sits by his desk, their quiet, intimate gestures lingering in memory, while a visiting child appears with a rosebud.
A historical note describes New Year celebrations with merriment that may seem excessive to outsiders, implying a collective relief as the old year passes and the new one begins. The passage tones the scene as lively and somewhat surprising to unfamiliar readers.
A collection of festive superstitions and folklore about Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Includes water turning to wine between 11 and 12, earth blending with Paradise at night, lamp care to avoid family death, honey with nuts for teeth, a midnight pillow for future lover dreams, Christmas day misfortune if you trip, Mother’s Night as an ancient name, pew royal blooming at Christ birth, not carrying live coal, and births at midnight on December 1 leading to fame.
Promptly at the stroke Italy marks New Year with public celebrations and personal wishes. The text hints at wishing to be Italian during the countdown and festive rituals.
Judge J Otis Humphrey of the U B district court in Springfield Alabama adopts soil first farming on a 40 acre tract. He converts a corn heavy field with clover and barnyard manure into a productive mix yielding 75 bushels of corn per acre and two tons of clover hay per acre. The practice shows soil remains enriched, with long term farming potential. The Illinois Farmers Institute documents the method as a prototype for better crop returns.
The text explains hydrogen as the lightest element not existing freely, its role in water and muriatic acid with chlorine, and how hydrogen gas releases when muriatic acid reacts with zinc. It likens elements to people and notes hydrogen’s necessity to life with a warning about attention to it.
Two kinds of grit are needed for chickens and farming profit. Commerce grit helps the gizzard digest and moral grit helps us act at the right time for feathered friends. Clover hay makes an excellent change of food for brood sows and calved cows and is good for young stock with salt Bran and cornmeal added provide a near complete feed.
A hesitant bride visits a new laundress who quips about her marriage pace. The visitor confesses this was her first marriage and she laments not having more “favors” to cite as she agrees she did take her time.
New York City owns twice as many telephones as London four times as many as Berlin and six times as many as Paris. A single Antimacus butterfly specimen cost five hundred fifty dollars.
The Canal Commission report covers the isthmian construction last year with total canal cost at 120 million plus, a 43 thousand worker payroll and reduced death rate due to sanitation. It lists equipment, electrical lights for settlements, and hospital outcomes, while noting other federal fiscal and administrative items and monetary measures.
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