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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1906
Page
2
Lavinia Higginbottom frets as William brings home Harriet, a tall confident bride, shattering Lavinia’s long cherished wish for a dainty daughter-in-law. The mother’s stern welcome softens as the couple unite, the elder’s pride rising with the new wife’s gentle grace.
A dialect verse stresses hopeful routines with a repeated line about seeing the sun rise in the morning to reach promised goods and prosperity. It echoes regionally flavored imagery of summer and snow while linking sunrise to daily reward and perseverance.
Lavinia vows love for Harriet and gifts all she has to her daughter in law while wondering if she has truly gained a daughter or lost her son. Harriet agrees to be a loving daughter, while Lavinia curates a quiet bridal supper for the ill bride. William smiles at the union in this Waverly Magazine excerpt.
The New York State water supply commission highlights sewage disposal as a key public health issue. It calls for public education and proposes state certificates of purity for water supplies, akin to milk safety, to aid rural and urban communities and protect health from contaminated drinking water.
In a quip about a local obituary, Prof. Twiggs notes the Allegash Weekly Agitator editor penned a moving tribute to his late brother in law Hon Dodd Gast legislator. The exchange, echoed by the Old Codger, touches on sentiment and loss amid a neighboring hamlet's newspaper copy.
In this discussion from the Boston Transcript, scholars debate the origins of the word row. They compare possibilities from rouse to row de dow and address Shakespearean usage as well as references to old gambling slang.
William Jennings Bryan reacts to Democratic conventions endorsing his 1908 presidential bid. He notes it is premature to discuss nomination while urging party reform and campaign finance openness to curb private monopolies. He cites the meat industry as an example of private monopoly driving up prices and lowering quality.
Railway advances dominate the page with plans for a Canadian interurban headlined by Vice President Todd, a massive steel girders order for San Francisco, and the Loice de Loire rail unity project. The Lake Shore block system expands toward Buffalo and Chicago, New York Central switches to electric power and right hand operation, and Yoakum’s syndicate eyes a Chicago to Mexico City through line. 13,000 miles under contract, 20,000 steel cars ordered for 1907, and a Southern immigration commission formed in New York to channel labor.
London correspondents report the Kongo commission has largely admitted grave charges against the King Leopold regime. Revelations include mass killings by native soldiers to force rubber output, cannibalism in some expeditions, widespread forced labor, and a rapidly depopulating Kongo. Leopold defends his personal role in founding the state and asserts exclusive rights and responsibility.
A Boston special to the New York World reports Dr. Erastus E. Holt of Portland presenting a table on economic value by age and job at an AMA ophthalmology section meeting. The data show laborers peak around age 23 and professionals around age 40, with value declining thereafter. at 70 a man is worth 17.12 dollars and at 80 a net negative contribution of 872.84 dollars.
J Irvin Steele proprietor of the Ashland Evening Telegram died recently. Four of his sons own newspapers. Mrs Margaret Brennan mother of Chauncey Olcott died in Buffalo. Gales damaged shipping at Valparaiso with several lives lost. A general strike at Rio de Janeiro may follow the San Pablo strike. Mrs Robert Edeson Ellen Berg actress died after an operation in New York hospital. U S appraisers rule pamphlets printed in foreign languages not suitable.
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