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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1909
Page
2
A reflective poem recounts paths from youth’s Vale to distant Towers of Gaia and a river’s loss. The speaker returns from the celestial journey with little to show, guided by a pillar of smoke toward a promised land as a pilgrim with staff traverses a windless twilight.
Darkinson prepares to leave after a quiet farewell and a formal proposal to Miss Ryder that ends in rejection. He rationalizes his behavior with a composed, measured departure and recalls how he maintained polite, social grace despite the setback.
Darkinson feels his heart broken after Francesco rejects marriage. He imagines a future of solitary old age, mocking Old Grouch at the club, and a life drained of warmth, savor, and flavor as he endures everlasting heartbreak. He resolves to show sympathy to Old Grouch and moves on with a mournful, blighted life.
Francesca's sudden sentence shatters Darkinson's bright, youthful life. The 23 year old walks a numb path as memories of violets and a mysterious cousin's guest lure him to a new, distracting infatuation. Simonds drags him toward social plans while the burden of love lingers.
Thearticle recounts the Dutch fight against Spain and the rise of their naval power, noting sieges and sea power, then shifts to Representative Clayton's tale of a Montgomery negro who enjoys a Mississippi preacher's sermon with a punchline about dreaming of a million dollars. It ends with a remark on the cost of long distance telephone calls.
Practical notes on plant incubators using a lantern box and glass cover, transplanting for stocky seedlings, and early tomato cabbage germination. Also guidance on feeding broilers, hogs, cow profitability, horse value, and farm management tips from Indiana Farmer and Progressive Farmer observers.
A farmer notes that skipping paper between boarding caused poor ensilage. After adding paper and a second lining, ensilage improved significantly. The lesson: thorough initial work yields better results.
Farmers' Home Journal notes green corn stalks lettuce and other garden greens should be chopped fine for fowls in yards. Deprived hens lose red color in their combs and the blood becomes impure.
Farmers' Home Journal advises moving hatched chicks to a garden or under trees when weather permits so they can forage for insects and scratch freely, promoting healthy development away from confinement.
In a Milwaukee blaze at the Kieckhofer box factory three workers were injured and two firemen overcome by heat and smoke. Two Greeks, Peter Bongalos and Constanti nos Ganos, are believed dead after entering the burning building to recover clothing. The fire caused a $30,000 loss. Firefighters and bystanders rushed to aid others as workers leaped from windows to escape. Byron Fullerton and Arthur Fulbrigger broke their legs. Eddie Bryant helped drag them to safety.
E C Williams of New York Fidelity and Casualty shot Donald M Bain in a Prudential Building office after resenting a placard about Milledgeville. Bain surrendered to police. The quarrel followed a joking insult seen by Williams as mocking mental illness.
A dray loaded with ten million dollars in gold coin was driven Monday along Market street San Francisco from the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company Building to the old city hall vaults. Fourteen top truck horses and twenty five mounted policemen guarded the procession with city treasurer John E. McDougall beside the driver. The east wing of the old city hall remains the sole intact section left by wreckers from the 1906 earthquake and fire.
The Missouri Supreme Court Division No 2 rules newspapers may criticize public officials without libel liability. In Glover Branch v George Knapp Co the court reverses a $12500 verdict against publishers. Branch, a 1905 legislator, had accused remarks tied to the Senatorship fight of that year.
The body of Calvin Little Page, who had killed Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Jamieson near Valley Junction, Iowa, the day before, was found Wednesday by farmer John Ritchie. Page had shot himself, despairing of escape from armed posses.
John Cunningham, described in the article as a negro, was fined $100 and sentenced to six months in jail in Hutchinson, Kansas, for bootlegging. Judge Campbell substituted a work-release option by allowing him to work off the fine in the wheat fields to meet harvest labor demands.
A chronology lists major moments from 1701 when Brouillan became Acadia governor through 1908, including military campaigns in Canada, battles, inaugurations, explorations, and notable political shifts. It closes with a hometown tale of a legendary Northwest bulldog named General who halted a runaway horse in Menominee, Michigan.
All saloon licenses in Chicago in force on April 30 were renewed for the first period of 1909. No permit lapsed since the 1905 license fee and cap ordinance. Officials expect future annual income from saloon licenses to remain at least seven million dollars.
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