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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1914
Page
16
A stark reflection notes forty billion dollars spent destroying lives, an amount equal to nearly half of U S wealth, enough to buy major empires and leave billions spare. It questions the morality of killing and the command Thou Shalt Not Kill.
Article notes a fragile American flag from Fort McHenry that inspired the Star Spangled Banner and was saved from disintegration. It also recounts curiosity about Alpine seldanellas, water plants, and heat from blooming flowers melting snow, with observations from London Mail on peculiar plant growth.
Riffing on a homey quarrel a Yonkers State newspaper item notes a tale about thumb prints proving pie theft. A mixed snippet mentions the German emperor ordering a prayer petition for airships and aircraft in the imperial service and a block about the Star Spangled Banner from 1314.
A collage of items: Scottish saloon hour changed to 10 am under new excise law drawing discontent. a New York vaudeville act hires a woman suing a millionaire’s son for 225000. Baptist women criticized for fashion and worship styles. Pratt Kansas drives out a socialist candidate amid harvest labor unrest. Schopenhauer prophecy about arming against women noted. England’s conditions seem to echo it. Dr Inge rails against secular heaven as a fairy story. clergy seen as selling promises of an afterlife.
Fragmentary note remarks on a rising anti religious sentiment within the English working classes. No further details or context provided in the readable text.
A Rocky Mountain club recounts a surveying party tale about a rattlesnake and a zinc rock mistaken for a gold lode. The engineer explains the rock was zinc while noting the snake's gaze warned of danger, likening it to the mule that brays before kicking. The Rochester Post Express comments on militant reform outrages.
Mrs H A Barry of New York City once deaf for over a decade with head noises now reports perfect hearing after reading A Woman's Story shared by Mrs Moore. She urges other deaf individuals to obtain a free copy at Hindle's or Clampett's Drug Stores or Ballard's.
A Provident Journal account laments the Vera Cruz police officer as diminished and restrained. Once able to strike fear with the pistol, he now lacks weaponry and must refrain from offending whites yet still acts harshly toward peons, dependent on the marine for security in a town once more tranquil.
The Paterson Call recalls three street robberies where a bank messenger lost 325 900, another Paterson man was robbed in Greater New York for 23 000, noting the differing government labels. It suggests political vindication and mentions John Reck and Son vases and window pompoms.
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