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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
2
The poem yearns for home as the speaker imagines return through a hill gap. It paints sunlit fields, red topped clover, white daisy, wildbrier, and wood thrush as welcome signs. The earth itself promises hospitality and kinship, with lilacs and honeysuckle at the gate and an open door awaiting the wanderer.
In Upton California 1880s two boys Harold Stanley and Louis Haworth share a close bond despite social rifts. Harold seeks a bank position with Louis promising to plead his case with his austere father banker Haworth as flood warnings rise from the San Joaquin River threatening the town.
In a sudden river surge near Montreal, Harold Haworth devises a rope and ball line to shoot a lead weight over the Haworth residence. The line secures a rope ferry to haul the banker's wife and children to safety from the rising flood. Louis Haworth and townspeople assist as Asa Gifford pulls the boat to shore. The banker publicly recognizes Harold, who becomes a trusted clerk. his mother receives a new cottage as thanks.
The New York Sun recounts Colonel Hugh Scott’s sign language prowess and a 1900s stunt to test native chiefs. He staged a telephone chat between Sitting Bull and another captive leader to quell uprisings, prompting Sitting Bull to reject the idea as the telex device spoke in his ancestral tongue.
A deliberate wreck on Southern Pacific Coast Line No. 20 near West Glendale left one dead and twenty-two injured. Rails were sabotaged on a trestle over Arroyo Seco with wires pulled to spread the rails as the train, traveling 35 to 40 mph, plunged sixteen feet into a gulch killing a passenger and crippling the rest of the train’s fourteen cars.
More than a hundred U S families have moved to northern Mexico in the last thirty days to farm along the border. They live like locals, choosing individual haciendas over colonies, and report stable conditions and mutual learning with Mexican neighbors. Cotton prospects and higher prices fuel the venture’s promise of profit.
A Sydney dispatch says a hurricane and tidal wave hit the Caroline Islands causing immense property damage and about 2000 deaths. The Caroline Islands belong to Germany and lie in the Pacific with Papoe as government seat. Francis Emory Warren, a Wyoming Senatorial candidate, hails from New England and served in the Forty-ninth Massachusetts volunteers.
In Reidsville Georgia a mob armed with rifles attacked seeking a colored man accused of attacking Mrs Laura Moore. Fire from both sides killed five and wounded several, including a 10 year old child. attackers seized prisoners before police could transport them.
Secretary Taft affirms Panama canal work wages and hours for steam shovel men construction train engineers and conductors. He notes 25 to 33 percent higher pay than U S workers plus year round work six weeks paid leave twenty days sick leave free lodging and utilities with eight hour days and reduced illness. Construction train engineers wages raised to 210 monthly and a 3 percent yearly increase suggested for all workers. A new committee will handle final dismissals with craft foremen and commission representation.
A humorous column notes Ellen Terry's marriage at age fifty nine amid playful remarks on fashion and aging. The spoof piece also wades through other light topics including weather, crime, politics, and exploration with tongue in cheek commentary.
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