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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
3
A poem from the Pall Mall Gazette pleads a mother to build a protective palace and hedge of joy around a child. The speaker imagines shielding innocence from sorrow, teaching nature to favor beauty, and granting power over life’s joys, yet admits lack of power to avert common grief and hardship.
A first person narrator recalls summer love antics among friends Ted Johnson Violet and Minnie. The couple Ted and Violet become engaged then drift apart amid pranks, gossip, and a misadventure with wax, a wig, a catapult, and a planned meeting by a large oak.
In Korea ironing is described as beating the cleaned cloth with clubs. Korean girls pound fabric on sticks to finish and polish garments, a practice contrasted with flatirons. The article also notes playful labor by workers, winter stone battles, and summer rope swings among youths.
A Minneapolis Journal item notes a renowned jockey possessing an unusual archive of tributes from admirers. It includes pawn tickets, writs, talismans, sermons, ailment recipes, marriage offers with photos, welchers tickets, worn boots, and satirical gifts like snails in a snuffbox and a wooden spoon.
Friends visiting Aldworth House heard Tennyson declare he had only a year to live. The remark amused listeners but proved prophetic, as the poet died within a year. Lord Selborne noted the poet’s unhappiness at his surroundings, later recalled by witnesses.
A Cleveland Leader item recalls a jovial remark to Belle Barrett as she raises the garret with song. An old entertainer praises her voice comparing it to a song bird, noting the parrot was the intended compliment.
A dense set of farming tips covers squash cultivation from soil to pests, seed timing, manure, and thinning to avoid crowding. It also argues against tight checkreins in horses, discusses fruit box sizes and packing, and offers varied agricultural advice on cows poultry horses and field management.
In Boston at Agricultural Hall, speakers taught beginner friendly gardening. They urged early weed killing and soil conditioning, with common crops for short projects like beans, beets, radishes, peas and lettuce. For longer projects include cabbages potatoes tomatoes sweet corn and flowers such as zinnias stocks petunias and marigolds.
Chronological list of events and figures including Acre 1191, Henry VI 1414, Joan of Edinburgh 1427, Anne Askew 1546, William of Orange 1584, Hudson 1609, battles and treaties across Europe, Africa, and the Americas through 1908. Names include Henry Hudson, Henry VII, Napoleon era notes, and multiple wars, treaties, assassinations, and explorations.
An advance of 5 percent in wages took effect Monday in cotton mills across thirty or more towns in southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, benefiting about 15,000 operatives. Since the early year move, 15,000 textile workers have had pay raised from 4 to 5 percent. The Fall River Iron Company, already among the highest wage earners, raised wages again to remain the best paid in the area.
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