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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
3
The poem laments love and memory as Kathleen Mavourneen rings with sorrow and reverent tribute. It recalls the lover’s lingering, a waning night, trembling serenade, and a heart breaking in silent tears before Riley’s tribute to the song’s genius master.
Bertie Burton uses a windfall from William Montgomery Robinson to woo Anna Tobinson in a Devonshire resort. He fakes romance with the widow to gain the thirty thousand pounds, while George Smith plots to marry Miss Robinson himself. A reveal at Somerset House shows the will leaves the fortune to Anna, not Bertie.
In Youth's Companion style a girl named Janet Jefferson faces pressure from classmates to embrace a more lived in look for her pillows. Mary Slavin and Stella Palmer are contrasted as the standard of order while Janet resists and embraces a Aunt-like comfort. The piece ends with the idea that other students value her informal style.
The report notes Sisters of St. Joseph planning a new hospital in Logansport. It also details burns from kerosene, bank director elections, post office contracts, retirements, paving in Columbia City, a wave of accidents, suicides, drownings, and various local crimes, deaths, and civic actions across Indiana towns.
A reader letter or quote frailly records a family dispute over marriage plans and a mother-in-law, noting remarks about money and plans to marry, with an implied tension between the speaker and Bertie. The fragment references an oil lady and a daughter.
Critics warn military strength falls below safe levels as pay rises and longer drills loom. Marines may withdraw from the Isthmus of Panama with two infantry regiments replacing them, risking further US depletion. Congressional action on pay and infantry increases stalls progress.
The New York Jefferson Club banquet drew 600 Democrats for a Bryan show while Viscount Aoki praised peace with the United States. Secretary Taft spoke of progress in the Philippines and cautioned self government until education is complete. The Ohio Republican Committee set March 11 for presidential preference votes, with Senator Foraker opposing the plan. Boston elevated line to trial light-car trains to ease traffic.
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