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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1906
Page
2
A Bismarck Tribune poem extols the ripple effect of kindness and the lasting impact of a single act. It compares dropping a pebble in a stream to unkind words, late blooming waves of tears, and the enduring spread of comfort from a single word of cheer across miles and waters.
In a Montana yard a former train dispatcher named Jack Everett faces a perilous climb on No 1 up the hill to the summit as dusk settles and his past with Kitty Farley returns. He battles an old engine fire, contemplates his fate, and awaits the looming ride with two old friends and a rekindled romance amid steam, noise, and danger.
In a perilous night journey on a mountain trestle a frightened crew battles a runaway freight. Jack Everett saves Kitty Belle and Daggett with the 428s crew, sacrificing himself as the old engine sacrifices its last breath to bring rescue. Kitty's Morse coded message steadies him as the crash ends the peril. San Francisco Argo naut
A Western observer cites President Roosevelt and Leupp as advancing a policy to make Indian wards self supporting. Indians are used on government projects in the West, with Apaches, Navajos, Pimas, and Pueblos building roads and canals, and tribes working for railroads, sugar beet farmers, hop harvests, and field labor across Oregon, Washington, and Colorado as a test of native labor value.
Sailor E H Miller, brother of Capt L J Miller, survived a 15 minute battle off Tanter bank when he battled a seven foot four inch 67 pound man eating shark. The shark leaped, struck the dory, and was finished after a blow with an oar and a rescue by another boat. The Moses B Linscott returned to port with the wounded man and the killed shark.
A fragmentary exchange has Tommy recalling a red suit and horns at a masked ball, with Mr. Heamley denying it and claiming to be a cavalier. The piece also notes that even the best airship on earth may fail in flight, reflecting a quirky juxtaposition.
The Philadelphia Board of Education debates establishing a mechanical trade school under board management. Murrell Dobbins cites foreign unions and cites Italy France Germany England public trade schools as models and notes Boston penitentiary warden saying skilled trades deter crime.
John Mitchell rejects a Congress bid amid indignation. Reading faces female labor shortages affecting mills and factories as 7,000 women work in local industries. Washington investigates union benefits as York hosiery mills install a new stocking machine upgrading efficiency. Building plans in Reading stall due to rising costs and materials. Brick and gas price pressures push wage talks in York and Harrisburg.
A Wisconsin law would require annual district school board conventions. Ohio has six lawmakers in the Legislature. Waterbury Connecticut proposes a tenure bill for teachers with three-year probation and two-thirds board dismissal, with salaries set by the board and a retirement fund. Sergei Witte sent Russian state papers to Columbian University. Switzerland and Scotland are noted as highly educated, with seven as earliest school age. Dr E W Scripture records Emperor William’s voice for phonetics. Southborough England prizes for punctual pupils aim to boost attendance.
Mrs Amelia Hallpot of Norwich Connecticut credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring strength after lingering illness that caused nerve pains dyspepsia and exhaustion. She claims the medicine overcame wasting and sleep trouble and helped her regain flesh and vigor. The ad urges requesting a booklet from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
The fakirs of India and other East nations illustrate religious fanaticism through self inflicted suffering. Estimates suggest over three million fakirs, three quarters Hindu and one quarter Muslim, with varied degrees of piety and learning. Some are respected for learning, while many endure debasing practices in devotion.
Captain John L. Ely of the Seventeenth Ohio recalls chronic kidney trouble from the Civil War. He says pain and back weakness faded after using Deans Kidney Pills in 1907, bought via Foster Milburn Co of Rochester New York. cost is 50 cents per box.
A dramatic line depicts a wife waking her husband John at night to a basement noise. Still half asleep, John calls down to an unseen intruder, then orders the furnace damper be adjusted after confirming nothing was stolen. He returns to bed.
An old newspaper fragment advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure for deafness caused by inflammation of the Eustachian Tube and offers $100 for a cure it cannot achieve. It also promotes Hall's Frinity Pills for constipation and free samples of Allen's Foot-Ease. The clipping mentions drugstores, porous plasters from Allcock's, and prices for teams and drivers in San Francisco.
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