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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
2
The poem laments seekers of wealth and honor who pass by worldly trophies and long for morning-glories. It contrasts flowers and riches with yearning for renewal, imagining purple morning-glories blooming again on gracious hills and by rivers, as a symbol of rekindled hope and eternal beauty.
Night falls on a burned Maryland hillside as wounded soldiers endure the chill. A young boy, exhausted and thirsty, shares a moment with a ragged old man who carries canteens. The boy offers pay, but the old man reveals tokens of home pressed inside a simple pouch.
Vivid wartime tableau unfolds with marching troops and a lone old negro bearing canteens, a boy signaling help, and a distant shadowy figure. Amid chaos a starry sky brightens as a battle ends and a crow on a passenger train finds breakfast while communities in distant lands react to upheaval.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report notes Rome tenants may ride the elevator only to the second floor, while higher floors require stairs. The piece cites stubborn Italian self sufficiency, blocking foreign builders, and a broader claim that Italy lacks mechanical enterprise.
A boy lies gazing at the Milky Way as memories flood back to childhood in Vermont. He recalls rivers, willows, a village, a school, his mother, Edith his sister, and a long fall from a tree swing that ends with a starry, tender death scene.
The article cites Henry L. West in the Forum arguing the nation spends more now than during the Civil War era. It notes Great Britain’s 1907 navy cost and compares 1908 U S navy expenditures to France and Germany combined, highlighting rising army maintenance and global military comparisons.
The Interstate Commerce Commission notes fewer railroad deaths in the first three months of the year than any period since 1901, but criticizes care levels. In three months 728 were killed and 15 441 injured. 1 100 collisions occurred, 62 killed and 1837 injured. There were 1 412 derailments and 13 accidents caused by wire operators, signalmen and trainmen.
The report notes Congress spending climbs to 1 088 5 0 4 8 H or more than 85 000 040, with the army and navy accounting for about 39 000 000 and 16 000 000 respectively. Comparisons show Roosevelt years and Civil War era expenditures, plus remarks on soaring military costs and the vast road and trolley developments reshaping urban and rural life.
Two youths touring London enter the British Museum and see a mummy with a card reading B. Cc. 87. They puzzle over the mark until one jokes it marks the motor car that killed him. The exchange echoes playful anachronism in Tit Bits.
The New York Tribune lauds Britain's naval buildup at Rosyth and northern fleet displays. It praises ship numbers tonnage and ample trained crews, noting the impressiveness of sending out a fully manned mighty fleet.
The article describes prayer wheels used by Buddhists, typically a box or upright cylinder filled with printed prayers. It notes wheels rotate to accumulate merit and must move left to right, not right to left. A photo shows a Japanese Zenkoji temple priest with two wheels, common in Tendai and Shingon sects.
The text notes Egypt produced the earliest known maps on wooden tablets including land and sea routes. Marinus of Tyre introduced scientific map principles, while Greek and Roman maps were accurate to a degree but incomplete and sometimes insecure, with mentions of a world map and a caution about missing breakfast if waited for.
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