09 Feb 1899
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Newspaper
Belleville Freeman
Location
Belleville, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1899
Page
1
Published weekly, timetable for pass. train departure at 7:55 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. with Sunday departures. Westbound runs at 6:10 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. Ex Sundays. Dunn is the local agent.
Uncle Sam's new colonies will interest Americans and the Kansas City Times will chronicle the peaceful army of business growth. Expect coverage of the second invasion of the Philippines Porto Rico and Cuba and the annual congressional elections. Western readers urged to subscribe for a live up-to-date, uncompromisingly democratic paper distributed across Missouri Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma Arkansas and Indian Territory.
The greatest danger from La Grippe is pneumonia but with reasonable care and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy the danger is avoided. Tens of thousands used it with no pneumonia cases, claiming it cures grippe faster than other treatments. Pleasant and safe to take, for sale by Armstrong & Co.
The article lampoons Valentine customs with grotesque pictorial valentines and exaggerated mischief. It notes the letter carrier burdened with many valentines while the practice declines in popularity, and recounts farcical anecdotes of gifts, grudges, and a chaotic season of mockery.
A Russell Iowa Union letter mocks a stingy old neighbor who shows up in a grocery store crowd to claim that the Spanish war will civilize the Philippines through Christian missions. The piece satirizes hypocrisy and missionary rhetoric amid wartime debate.
A banker finds a $10 bill and passes it along through a chain of payments from butcher to farmer to merchant to washwoman who uses it to settle a debt with the bank. The bill is later revealed as counterfeit, raising questions about what was lost and by whom as debts were settled and recirculated.
A Russian inventor unveils a machine designed for flagellation, claimed to spare human arms from blows. The device supposedly enables swift collection of taxes and arrears under flagellation, signaling a harsh, automated method of enforcing debt repayment.
In the scholastic year 1890 91 St Petersburg had 259 primary schools with 12 760 pupils. The previous year there were 267 schools and 13 042 attendees. Among these are 120 female schools with 5 703 pupils.
London tests on thousands show peak lifting strength at 30 to 31 with a drop by 40 and a larger fall by 50. Mental memory for a page rises from age eight to sixteen, then jumps, peaks around twenty, then slowly declines, accelerating after forty. Youths eighteen to twenty outperform thirty-year-olds in memory tasks. An Oxford contest left Dons behind younger students.
Scribner’s argues that the war forces a new imperial role for the United States, offsetting the mercantile drive. The essay notes the imperial spirit can temper business-minded culture by elevating soldiers and sailors to statuesque prominence, even as it reshapes national identity and ambitions.
The speaker argues brevity is essential in art and discourse. Warning against overstatement, they urge concise, varied phrasing to leave a clear impression.
A tropical American fish, the anableps, has four eyes due to a corneal split by a dark band and two pupils in each eye. One pair gazes upward while the other looks sideways, marking a unique vertebrate adaptation along sandy shores.
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