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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
6
A lyrical meditation on missing a beloved, expressing longing, devotion, and hope for a future union. The speaker recalls past love, laments absence, and envisions soul to soul reunion amid shadows and fate.
Nicholson meets Bettie in a mountain forest as he crafts a plan to aid shut ins. Their brief romance deepens amid moonlight and wild beauty but ends when Bettie reveals she feigned reform to test him. He discovers her true self as she confesses a fib and an early career as a book writer.
A fragment shows Elizabeth Burroughs crying out I hate experiments as she stretches toward a man, conveying distress during an abrupt confrontation. The incomplete OCR leaves the full context unclear but indicates emotional impact.
A Dundee Advertiser reader reveals how polygamy persists in Utah despite laws. A Salt Lake City visit is described with a house-by-house arrangement where a man may have wives in neighboring homes, illustrated by a London Daily News anecdote about a man living in multiple adjoining houses.
The Century Magazine argues dueling ended by a public sentiment code that shunned insult. It suggests stopping indiscriminate betting by extending the same ethic, despising swagger and bragging as unworthy of gentlemen. If bluffing becomes socially condemned, betting loses justification.
Spectators traveled from Atlantic City for the May's Landing county court opening. Judges Hendrickson and Endicott endured poor hotel service with grisly stew and reused plates. Endicott finally identified his own plate after a careful inspection, as a waiter offered potpie with the same worn dishes.
Appreciative Ex Judge Pennypacker recalls a case where a Celt pleads not guilty after a bungled defense. The bench assigns counsel to the poor prisoner, yet the jurors find him guilty and the Celt cries out that the trial was fair only in form. The judge blinks at the notion of fairness.
Verse by Thomas Hood compares flowers to lovers and rejects others in favor of the rose. The tulip cowslip violet and lily receive dismissive portraits, jasmine broom and bees are noted, and the speaker declares he will pledge to the rose as fairest of all.
The speaker urges young men to seize opportunities across all fields and discover their specialty early. Hard work trumps laziness, and success comes only from persistent effort despite changing times and conditions.
The text compares crime and punishment by gender across Europe and colonial regions. It cites figures from France Italy Algeria England and Wales Bavaria and Turin, noting women are consistently underrepresented among delinquents and convictions. It claims Europe overall shows women five times less guilty than men.
The piece traces the role of the spellbinder from ancient tribal origins to modern politics, noting early reformers and later paid and unpaid speakers. It contrasts focus on results with form and cites examples of campaign fees and the occupational shift toward outcome over style.
A New York Journal piece urges parents to focus on children’s virtues to build self control. Mothers with wisdom patience and love can foster better character, while dwelling on faults undermines courage and progress. Encouragement and praise strengthen effort and mood, guiding reform. Ending with nightly singing, the article notes family song calms nerves and aids bedtime.
A fragment from Life by James Clarence Harvey describes 400 real iron pots and many others that float with a smug smile. The poem contrasts metal pots with clay pots and rejects social mixing with bookish recognition, noting brass, china, and de' on old shelves fare better.
A collage of jokes and quips from multiple papers including the Detroit Free Press Philadelphia Record and Boston Evening Transcript. Snappy lines touch marriage bets gasoline stove humor smart set versus four hundred and auto fashion and mountain slides.
Andrew Carnegie visited the Ladies' College in Queen Street Edinburgh, praising the institution as doing the important part of starting the future mother well. He reflected on his own Scottish mother and noted the value of a mother in old age, while acknowledging his mother’s enduring influence.
The excerpt warns that character defines true success, arguing that wealth and education cannot compensate for lost integrity and manhood being sacrificed through underhand schemes. It asserts a life without core values is a failure, no matter status or fortune.
A huge bear seized a young child near a Sebastopol village. In a three day hunt locals closed in, finding the child unharmed on a mossy couch the bear had made. The bear had fed her with nuts and forest fruit before being killed.
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