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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
12
Meyer Bloomfield argues city boys facing sparse resources can rise through access to teachers and books, clubs, and schools. He contrasts Lincoln's brutal upbringing with modern urban opportunities while urging progress in play spaces, education, and civic leadership to uplift the boy as the nation’s future.
Edward Cross surveys Chile and Bolivia noting striking beauty of women in Santiago and Valparaiso. He describes female streetcar conductors in both cities and remarks on fashion, boots, and knee length skirts in La Paz, highlighting Paris made boots and Trilby style.
Walter B Palmer from Pittsburgh describes a household rule to ban discussion of troubling subjects during dinner and for an hour afterward. The family, though happy, finds such talk provokes strife and aims to keep meals peaceful and pleasant.
The article notes a rising whaling season in Chile with a reported catch of 400 for the period, yielding about 2,000 tons of oil valued at roughly $215,000 and 20 tons of whalebone sent to France. It mentions equipment including ice wanks and floating stations, with vessels ranging 40 tons to 1170 tons.
Springfield announces the state tax rate for the coming year at 70 cents per $100 of equalized property value, the highest on record. The Illinois Tax Commission cites 1911 and 1912 deficits totaling $5,424,730 and notes ongoing need to raise funds to cover increased appropriations.
Governor Dunne commuted five Cook county prisoners at Joliet for efficient road work near Dix on and near December 1 release. Names include James J. McCoy Joseph Petkowski Mick Petesky Christ Christianson John F Murray. The decision follows the pardons board recommendation and Dunne’s pledge to reward honest labor. A second plan seeks approval for a forty mile Springfield to Jacksonville highway, with Dunne to confer with penitentiary wardens and the state highway commission.
A Pennsylvania inventor patents a snow velocipede with front and rear runners instead of wheels. It includes a vertically movable driving wheel controlled by a handle lever. The wheel is raised for coasting and lowered to pedal on snow or level ground.
Dr. Robert Broom, famed South African paleontologist, brings a premier Permian to Triassic fossil reptile collection to the American Museum of Natural History for comparative study. He notes links between South African and North American Permian fauna and highlights the almost complete Endothodon skeleton.
A St Louis police officer halted a man whose clothing hid a coop with three fowls that allegedly flew into his coat to keep warm. Regulations prohibit such concealment and the man was arrested.
Dr George L Colbert appeared in court charged with intoxication. He said he intoxicated himself to study alcohols effects. The magistrate discharged him and told him to confine his experiments to home.
Rumor swirled that John D. Rockefeller was dining at a Brockton quick lunch room. Police reserves needed to control the mob as reporters chased the tale. A man believed to be Rockefeller’s double admitted to frequent mistaken identity.
New York magistrate Corrigan fined Walter Rues five dollars after Jeanne Pesse complained he winked at women in his home. The ruling was delivered in night court, addressing conduct judged as improper toward ladies.
Alfred D. Hall and assistants from Rothamsted Experimental Station report in Royal Society Transactions that there is no evidence of persistent soil toxins from crops grown for sixty years that depress the growth of the same plant. Winifred Brenchley and Lilian Underwood contributed to the work.
Mrs. Alice Kirlin reports her daughter's scalp first showed pimples that turned red and itchy, spreading to the body and causing sleepless nights. After months of ineffective remedies, two uses of Cuticura Soap and Ointment reportedly relieved the symptoms and cured her.
A collage of old-time ad lines and quips features hammertone jokes about homil ministers and dinner, a promotion for Allen's Foot Ease antiseptic powder, a teething syrup claim, a worm killer, and various wry sayings. The piece reads like a newspaper filler page with product pitches and light humor.
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