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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
2
A lyric expresses simple living and steady work as Sam Outcaeke reflects on paying rent and avoiding excess. He values basic needs, sleep, walking, sunsets, robins, and music, claiming contentment while aspiring for social improvement someday. The tone resembles a reflective, old fashioned verse praising modest prosperity.
In a suburb beset by burglaries two young women attend a concert alone and face a nighttime threat. A masked follower and a daring friend in need intervene, guiding them home safely, exposing a criminal mastermind later identified as Oliver Drayton, a notorious con man.
The Puritan Club in Boston owned a painting titled The Chap with the Corselet for over twenty years without knowing its value. Experts now identify it as Angiolo Bronzino, with offers of 5 000 to 25 000 dollars rejected. The club plans to store it safely and may send it to the Museum of Fine Arts for preservation.
Readable scraps touch on barometer physics with misfired ideas about weight and height, a note on colorless odorless matter, and scattered thoughts on motion in space. The text blends curiosities about pressure, dew formation, and social maxims from an era of partial OCR.
The article traces early use of molasses in European stock rations from 1811 through widespread adoption by 1870, with regional practices in Germany, France, Russia, England, and North America. It compares Angora goats to sheep for profitability, warns about grindstone wear, advises movable poultry-house fixtures, outlines cold treatment for fowl, and stresses shelter for pigs and careful feeding to avoid trough losses.
Practical poultry guidance from Grace Eby notes on handling hens ducks and geese. Advice covers nest placement for moisture eggs by species feeding changes to maintain laying condition and methods to control parasites and odors. Includes remarks on cull management and the value of poultry by products like feather beds.
A healthy 20 year old Scotch girl with habit of biting pins enters hospital after swallowing five pins while dressing. She vomits pins over a month totaling 23, then needles emerge from the left nostril, behind the left ear, and a spot on the right forearm. By this time 75 pins had appeared.
A Pathfinder report outlines a budget for great liners like the Lusitania and Mauretania. It notes round trips from New York costing 25 000 for the goal, 20 000 for food, 10 000 in salaries, and other expenses totaling 90 000 per voyage. Receipts from passengers amount to 14 000 with other income pushing total to 156 800, yielding a gain around 66 800.
The Boston Globe advises restarting a neglected friendship with a candid opening. It suggests beginning with a direct line about waiting for a reply and announcing the intention to write, aiming to rekindle communication and set a direct tone.
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