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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1913
Page
5
A child notes his father’s lack of wealth and public office, contrasting the cost of living with the family’s modest goals. The speaker recalls simple skills like making a whistle from willow, time spent in the yard, and outings to the country, while hoping for better days. The verse affirms love and admiration for a hardworking father.
A dialogue about an anticipated midnight arrival leads to a startled father making a scene when the caller, visiting Dorothy Gadsworth, arrives. The exchange highlights surprise and family tension in a small moment of newsroom-style anecdote.
A prison reform advocate notes convicts busy at work writing while the warden says they hope to produce poems that will lead to pardons, reflecting belief that idleness is a sin and productivity aids release.
A reflective figure laments small talent yet recalls that his few bold feats outshone the many who chose safety. While others caroused, he dared to act, and his rare triumphs defined his path.
The Bright Side records Bennington as a man who always sees the bright side. He remarked that despite his wife’s serious illness he would cope with loss, joking he would have enough good hair to stuff a mattress.
In a reflective note the piece claims the world grows better and brighter daily, citing a lack of bands playing the old McGinty ballad and the fading shout of "A Hot Time" as signs of changing times.
A fragment shows a man named George Ham meraley being teased by his wife about starting away from home on Friday as a fire breaks out in a room across the hall on the hotel’s tenth floor. She quips that she warned him something would happen.
The piece cites two 17th century London pamphlets on women’s suffrage. It lists figures such as Mrs Beatrice Blinks and Mrs Priscilla Prick-Long in a 1647 tract and notes an earlier 1640 edition titled The Parliament of Women. The writings advocate women’s political rights and distinct laws by and for women.
A Detroit Free Press snippet records a domestic exchange about money for clothing and household needs. The dialogue contrasts frugality with indulgence as a board of commerce cruise is mentioned, revealing tension over spending and priorities in a personal economy.
A celebrated aurist confesses he may have harmed his practice by advising a family remedy for earache. Lie with the painful ear up and apply warm water via a teaspoon for 15 to 20 minutes, then drain and plug with warm glycerin and cotton. Repeat hourly until relief is felt.
Two youths Goninon and Cooper killed a twelve foot six inch giant octopus off western Tasmania at Cornwall. Inside its stomach they found a shirt matching that worn by miner Richard Shaw Burke, who vanished months earlier after being swept from Trumpeter rock nearby.
Charlie, a country bank cashier, and May were engaged but quarrelled and broke off the engagement. When May returns with a check, Charlie refuses to cash it claiming it is against bank rules to cash for a perfect stranger, and asks her to find an in-town guarantor.
The article credits Dr. Jesse Lazear of the United States Army with discovering that yellow fever is transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, a sacrifice that enabled the Panama Canal project and reduced disease and misery that would have hindered its completion.
Herbert Fanshawe, an American engineer, presses a long court battle over the Fanshawe estates in England. After a hurried remarriage to Sir Thomas Fanshawe’s daughter under a settlement, Sir Thomas dies before signing a will. The outcome hinges on the Married Women's Property Act, but Fanshawe is revealed to love Mary Fanshawe and offers weekly visits, seeking a genuine relationship beyond the bargain.
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