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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1902
Page
3
A fragmentary verse from Lippincott's recalls longing for a dear companion through snow rain and changing seasons. The speaker seeks guidance, love, and cheer as the day drags on, evoking a sentimental turn of 19th century song.
Miss Dorothy Benson faces dismissal from the newspaper as she contemplates poverty and past sorrows. Jack Macomber, her editor and secret employer, reveals his love and declares she is discharged so they may reunite and pursue a life together.
Aro field force dismantled the Long Ju-Ju at Aro-Chuku used by Ibo and other groups to lure victims into slavery or sacrifice. Witnesses tell of skull altars, sacrificed victims fed to alligators and catfish, with paths of blood in the spring. Oloko, seat of Warsu Tarti, fell after a hard march through hills.
Captain Alfred T. Mahan argues there is no universal test for when to disobey or defy orders. He stresses professional judgment, evidence, and reflection, noting errors can be excusable or inexcusable depending on adherence to established standards.
The passage argues that the burden of proof lies with the person who disobeys and that obedience forms the cornerstone of unified action. It warns that laxity toward rules weakens responsibility, while acknowledgment of duty provides moral strength to disobey only when warranted by serious, well-considered judgment.
A New Hampshire teacher punished mischief by placing a pupil in an elevated chair to learn an advanced multiplication table. The student, weak in arithmetic, memorized complex products, gaining rapid mental calculation abilities. Dr. Newman Hall recalls Harriet Beecher Stowe conceiving Uncle Tom's Cabin during a Hartford communion service, with the death scene shaping the story.
Several cabmen will stand as candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Belgium. They run under the banner of the men’s trade union based in Brussels.
The Grand Trunk uses a near real time graphic method to show exact positions of every fast freight car. A large board chart from Chicago to Portland holds train blocks with pegged destinations, moved as trains advance. Dispatchers report arrival and departure times to Montreal, sending manifest ranges to update car movements efficiently.
A railway article details a telegraphic manifest system with way bills, car labels, and a board showing stations, blocks, and pegs to track each car. It explains how manifests, consist reports, and wires to Montreal enable precise train movement, delays detection, detours, and scheduling advantages over the old method.
The piece charts Cuba’s 124 railways with over 2000 miles of track and high fares. It notes many lines are private sugar transport routes and British capital dominates key lines. A Cuban Central Railway project by Sir William Van Horne will link Havana to Cienfuegos and widen access to Nipe harbor, unlocking about 19 million acres for cultivation.
The writer argues that a society’s wealth mirrors its number of millionaires. He cites Russia and Germany as poor with few millionaires, France modestly rich, Britain leading with many millionaires, and asserts the United States has more millionaires than the rest of the world combined.
In Duluth an East End visitor with her young daughter visits a local institution employing about fifty people. A jovial employee, skeptical of hair restoratives, earns a remark from the child as they depart asking who is the man bigger around the rain barrel with the shiny head.
In Brussels and France the glove cutters command higher pay than famed tailors in London and New York. The craft is highly skilled and most principal cutters are known by name and fame. Their knives are prized heirlooms passed down through generations.
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