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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1906
Page
1
Percival and Higbee discuss a clean ad for Higbee’s Hams on a boarded site, rejecting flippant wording. Henry Higbee moves from gilded youth to long packing house hours, choosing work over leisure after a costly year of excess.
A comic tale unfolds in Chicago and New York as Hank Higbee faces pressure from a moneyed clan to marry for wealth. His father uses stern, practical advice to steer him away from a gold-digging romance, while Percival and Mrs. Higbee weigh the odds of love versus money in a brassbound social swirl.
The piece contrasts New York spring with distant scenes of renewal. It argues city spring is tame and insipid, noting gas-poisoned soil, pallid grass, and artificial tulips. It laments lack of spontaneous life and vivid natural revival seen elsewhere.
A young man lingers before a florist window in Broadway's canyon and buys roses with money he hates to spend. He imagines a future with a girl and recalls a planned gesture, while at a hotel his mother and Psyche manage the suite and a butler is discussed. Central Park scenes follow with a tense exchange about trust and love.
A fragment from a period piece opens in a cozy drawing room where accusations, fear, and plans swirl. Horace Millerey endures grief in a stark library as other characters debate marriage schemes, social mockery, and literary fashion while a playful verse laments the perpetual praise of tall slim heroines.
Miss Hobbs, a New Hampshire widow of sixty after family losses, joins a gloom dispelling society and, via mail orders, plans a Boston shopping visit. She inspects a shop slip marked patent pending and asks where the advertised darning egg can be found, remarking on its curious pantie.
The Atlantic Fleet reinforced by armored cruisers and torpedo boats will pass before President Roosevelt off Oyster Bay on September 3. Admiral Ivans commands the battleships with four new ships leading, followed by the Maine flag and a lineup of Mis s ons, Kentucky, Kearsarge, Indiana and Iowa. The accompanying armored cruisers and the second squadron head the procession, while four sister ships head home for Asiatic service. The torpedo flotillas under Anderson and McDowell will also be reviewed aboard the Dolphin with officials including Bonaparte Newberry and Dewey present.
Detroit delegates voted to support William J. Bryan for president in 1908 and to urge the national Democratic committee to investigate charges against Chairman Thomas Taggart, demanding his resignation if proven. The convention nominated Charles H. Kimmerle of Cassopolis for governor over Stanley C. Parkhill of Owosso after a spirited ballot.
Attorney General Moody directs continued prosecutions of railroad violations of federal safety appliance acts. United States attorneys in districts where offenses occurred will file and vigorously pursue suits to recover statutory penalties.
Milwaukee reports the final account of the trustee for the estate of Frank G. Bigelow, the former bank president, now in Leavenworth. The trustee states sufficient funds exist to pay a final dividend of 11.23 percent on approved claims, totaling 3,242,255 dollars.
Resignations of Lieutenants Clarence A Hustandie of the Twenty third Infantry and Albert B Odell of the Eleventh Cavalry are accepted for the good of the service Capt Merriman dead in Minneapolis Minn noted as a prominent citizen aged seventy two at his big home the funeral details to follow
A six month old boy suffered widespread painful eczema with crusts, bleeding, and sleepless nights. After failed treatments, a friend recommended Cuticura products. Within ten days to two weeks improvement appeared, and by ten weeks the child was well with smooth white skin. Includes a note from L Hohrath, Silk Ribbons manufacturer, South Bethlehem, Pa, 1905.
The Boucicault gate traces to French refugees who fled to Ireland and married an Irish girl. Dion was named after his father's friend Dr Dionysius Lardner, a noted British writer on physical science. The passage also mentions Allen's Foot-Ease powder for foot comfort and a trial package offer.
New York City houses the largest diamond cross in the world though not officially recognized. Its main line runs along Maiden Lane with the foot on Broadway and arms along Nassau Street. The area employs 48 men in the diamond trade, and more gems than any other city occupy the same space.
The Minneapolis & St. Louis R R offers tickets at one cent per mile to Minneapolis and St Paul and return. Return limit August 31 with extension to September 30. Payment of 60 cents. For details contact A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis Minnesota.
A Roumanian lodged under a dining car on a sea express route, slept in Paris for 63 hours, and awoke dusty and thirsty with five cents in hand. The piece also notes a Shell steamship nonstop voyage from Singapore to Rotterdam covering 11,000 miles in 62 days, claiming record efficiency and large fuel savings.
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