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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1905
Page
6
The lyric voice longs for peace and quiet away from storms and struggle. He seeks a simple life, restful mornings, hammocks under trees, robin songs, clover fragrance, and the Zephyr's kiss, away from battles with winter. Washington Star style echoes hopeful retreat.
A seamstress appeals to tradition while recounting Leonora Wilson’s wedding. The tale centers on a cake hidden letters from parents, reconciliation, and a doublet ceremony where Leonora’s mother and father reunite after years apart. The piece blends nostalgia with a festive village mood and hints at social bonds restored through love and a wedding cake.
The Vladivostok fleet sent four torpedo boat destroyers to shell Japanese coast near Hokkaido and set trading vessels ablaze before fading into fog. Russian cruisers Rossii and Rurik, with Gromoboi, remained damaged and idle, while Togo's location remains secret as Rojestvensky consolidates fleets near Kamranh Bay awaiting a likely Vladivostok return. Movements of Manchurian forces show Japan preparing a renewed offensive under Linovitch amid muddy roads delaying operations.
President Roosevelt travels by special train through Louisville St Louis and Dallas during a westward trip after announcing Panama Canal board appointments. He greets crowds, speaks on rail regulation and the square deal, visits Texas Oklahoma and Colorado camps, hunts bears and wolves, loses a beloved dog Spot, and continues to Chicago and Washington.
A Cedar Rapids Republican analysis notes Iowa's population loss on farms since 1880s, with 1905 rural decline mirrored in other states. Causes include land value shifts, farmers selling to out-of-state buyers, and rising farm machinery reducing needed labor. Migration toward villages and towns grows, while overall rural counties shrink amid looming need for intensive cultivation to sustain land value.
The article outlines wage advances for blast furnace workers ranging 10 to 12 percent on May 1 as unions sign contracts with the Lake Carriers Association. It notes turmoil in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers in Calumet, a near extinction risk for East Chicago area lodges, and renewed organizing drives in St. Louis and Fort Worth. It also covers the Brotherhood of Carpenters vote against amalgamation, the United Metal Workers withdrawing from the AFL, and C P Shea’s strike victory in Boston with a union-backed settlement after four days.
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