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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
2
The Zuider Zee islands resemble a bright nursery scene with stiff trees black and white cows and vivid wooden houses. Locals wear flashy clothes while cheese making and fishing seem quaint. Tourists and guides see them as childlike yet they are becoming shrewd and perceptive due to tourism.
The article surveys Marken and Volendam in the Zuider Zee, praising stubborn costume details and domestic life while noting tensions with Marken’s mainland neighbors. It admires Volendam’s village calm, women’s attire, and old fishermen, yet ridicules tourist scuffles and sun-dried faces. It also contrasts nearby towns Edam and Monnikendam, and mentions Amsterdam boat services and Mauve’s Holland.
A humorous exchange centers on a wife who once grieved over leaving a wealthy husband to marry, and a man claims to have cured her by starting to grieve first. He explains his method by saying he joined her in mourning, grieving harder and longer than she did.
A female writer condemns feminine vanities notably dress spending. The piece argues many well dressed women buy cheaper outfits, value affordability, and note dress and carriage influence on career. It cites a educator who improved students by updating wardrobes, and notes dress sustains industries while urging discernment against grotesque fashions.
In Hungerford Berkshire Wiltshire border the village maintains a centuries old Hockney Tuesday custom. Two tuttlermen James Blake and Anthony Bowsher walk the town from eight in the morning to seven in the evening kissing damsels and tossing oranges and pennies to onlookers while crowds follow. The town crier signals with horn and the Hock-Tide court convenes as the day ends with church wardens and punch at the Three Swans.
In Cairo’s national museum of Egyptian antiquities a plant collection from sepulchral monuments shows no difference between ancient and modern Nile flora. The article notes preserved blossoms such as larkspur and celery garlands from 1000 B C while debunking tales of 50 century old wheat germination and modern grains mixed with ancient seed.
The New York Times on March 23 2012 reports Canada’s growth as eight shiploads of European immigrants heading to Canada and an outward U S migration pattern waning. It notes a $39 million budget surplus and $38 million rail and canal credits, with railroads expanding and many roads allotting funds for work. It cites Canadian newspapers calling for fifty thousand workers and Americans selling high priced lands to invest in Canadian farms as two thousand carloads of farm animals and machinery move north.
From 1901 to 1910 TB deaths fell from 196.9 to 160.3 per 100000, an 18.7 percent drop, while overall deaths fell 9.7 percent from 1655.0 to 1495.8. Data from the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis cites census reports, noting a steady decline since 1904 and an estimated 27,000 lives saved. The piece also mentions unrelated ad material and trivia notes.
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