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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1906
Page
2
A reflective verse laments changing times and faded youth. It contrasts bygone golden chances with present dullness while urging shared moments by the fading fire. It notes aging, dim eyes, and lingering love as a dream without waking.
Eight year old Harry idolizes the steam giant Big 92 and begs to control it. While his engineer father Bob Sutton takes a dinner break, Harry climbs into the cab and touches the throttle, tempted to test how a small move can stir the mighty locomotive back into life. The yard sits near empty during dinner, except for a lone engine ready to roar at command.
A young boy named Harry loses control of a box engine and races toward a main line. Station forces and an engineer scramble to avert disaster by diverting the engine onto a siding at Belton Harbor, while a doomed passenger faces imminent danger on the speeding train.
A Chicago Daily News note recalls Superintendent Sutton of the Fairview Railroad who injury in his left arm from a fall while a boy of eight. He tells how a switch miscue and a fall into flowers saved many lives, a tale he often repeats with pride in the accident that shaped his career.
The battleship Texas, once called the hoodoo boat, is placed on the retired list and sent to Charleston navy yard to serve as a station ship unless war requires her return. Completed in 1895 she suffered repeated mishaps from the start including a sinking incident in Brooklyn and a 1902 target practice accident. Her days of active service are over and she will remain at her dock before joining forgotten vessels in the naval graveyard.
Professor Faraway spoke before a national scientific society among seven experts. His wife, anxious yet proud, notices the audience’s burst of applause as he sits, and he jokes about a humorous end to his address. She confesses he was the loudest clapper, head in the air, chair tilted.
In the cook’s absence the young mistress and a green waitress attempted Sunday luncheon. The flurried maid admitted forgetting to wash the lettuce as a coffee machine balked. The mistress offered to wash it herself and asked where the soap was.
A Philadelphia Press snippet jokes about forgiving a poor meal and forgetting the quarrel. It notes time passing quickly as a man over fifty wonders why he dresses in the morning. It adds that many are merely tiresome and that jealousy drives separations between men and women.
New York received William J. Bryan with uproar and cordial cheers as the Prinzess Irene docked. Nebraska delegation led by Mayor Jim Dahlman boarded to greet him, flowers were waved, and Bryan spoke of his long journey and plans while reporters noted political themes later echoed in a Washington dispatch.
William Jennings Bryan returns to public life amid a Madison Square Garden ovation, pledging to end trusts and push government ownership of railroads. He ties tariff revision and social reform to a broader program, criticizing the Senate as a wealth bulwark and urging direct democracy reforms. The speech also advocates arbitration treaties and a critical view of Philippine governance.
The account reports William Jennings Bryan arguing for income tax and denouncing injunctions while claiming free silver is no longer a campaign issue after the 1896 Democratic contest. He urged Democratic rejection of corporate contributions, praised Roosevelt, defined trusts as price fixers, and made trusts and tariffs central. He defended railroad national ownership with dual state and national control, and closed with oratorical flourish recalling past figures and Burns.
A Maine Pedagogical Association committee reports forty three hundred seventy eight elementary teachers' wages, most women earning 0 to 9 dollars weekly and half under 200 dollars a year, with teachers earning less on average than cotton mill workers.
Major rail projects in Manhattan involve three companies the New York Central the New York New Haven and Hartford and the Pennsylvania Railroad with estimated expenditures exceeding 120 million dollars. The Pennsylvanias station site may total 50 million while the New York Central New Haven terminal and electrification could reach 70 million. Extensive demolition 400 buildings occurred for the Pennsylvanias site and deep excavation up to 70 feet will remove 2 500 000 cubic yards of rock and earth for Grand Centrals evolving double deck track system.
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