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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1906
Page
2
A nostalgic poem recalls returning to a beloved fishing hole in May. The speaker longs for youth, describes dipping trousers, wading with bamboo rod and creel, and recalls spring imagery and childhood adventures by the water.
In a moodily reading room Carter, a bearded employer, offers a stenographer job to Charity Harlan. She endures a strict, money driven post with little talk and a harsh, exacting boss. A child Bertie reveals kindness and guilt, softening Carter’s stance, as Charity and Carter confront truth about money and light.
Prof Charles I Edwards of Trinity College New Hartford Conn leads a floating laboratory voyage along a thousand mile coastline from Connecticut to Bahamas. The ship will gather marine life by dredge and trawl, studying variation in species with students from multiple universities, sharing costs and freedom aboard.
Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, a Zulu and African orator, has won the 282 public speaker prize at Columbia University, receiving the George William Curtis gold medal for oratory in a competitive examination. He plans to pursue a supplementary course at Oxford after graduation in June to study law.
In a county treasurer office a man named R W Swackhammer explains initials substitute for his full name. Clerk voices pride in Ralph Waldo Emerson while the man laments the Saintly full name being mocked by a livery-stable keeper with cross-eyes and a wart.
The Bank of England was founded sixty four years earlier and in 1758 received its first forged note. Richard Vaughn, a Stafford linen draper, led the crime, detected by expert clerks and executed. After his death, forgery remained a constant threat until the death penalty was repealed, with many executed for the crime. The Louisville Courier Journal references this historical case and related sensational dialogue.
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