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Newspaper
Cape Girardeau Democrat
Location
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1900
Page
3
A Chicago Times-Herald tribute notes artists and performers chasing success in art. It celebrates painters, poets, dancers, and speakers who persevere despite critics. The piece urges ongoing effort, arguing that many endeavors may fail, yet one may someday become a hit.
Narcissa recalls a long-ago spring when her mother survived a long illness only to die suddenly after a joyous well day. The vivid scenes trace family life, the dress of memory, and the moment of farewell as a father kisses his wife goodbye.
In northern Tow, Old Timber Wood, a rough yet cultured figure, clashed with a powerful judge known as Tur TA Nears. Their friendship masked public feuds and satire, including a scene where Wood's satire led to a contempt charge and a judge ordered a late fine remittance as spectators laughed.
A collage of humorous quotes from various papers and comedians. Jests touch on crowding on transit, education, drinking, theft defenses, golf gossip, signings, debt jokes, and a German professor limping, reflecting a lighthearted roundup of wit from different sources.
In a Boston Herald vignette a little boy Bobby pesters his father with questions about electricity on a trolley car. The exchange covers wires poles dynamos circuits and how the car starts stops and carries power. Passengers smile at the lively curiosity.
University of Michigan engineering shops completed an adjustable speaker’s stand for University Hall. Observations cover Harvard President Eliot, Lincoln University generosity, Haines Gauge war refusal, Chicago presbytery membership drop, missionary raises, and Archbishop Temple’s blunt reply to a clerical bore.
The piece argues that European monarchs, though often hypocritical in public faith, largely remain theists. It cites Frederick the Great as an unbeliever exception, but asserts most rulers feel the need for divine aid, given sovereign loneliness and the scale of their duties. It concludes that many rulers are strongly convinced theists.
The article explains how sunshine data are collected by weather stations, noting regional contrasts in the United States and Europe. It highlights the Manitoba wheat belt's reliance on long sunny days, and compares sunshine hours across European cities, with Madrid at 2930 and London at 1030 annually, illustrating the link between sun, cloudiness, and crop ripening.
Experts from the ordnance bureau of the war department estimate firing the 12 inch coast defense guns costs about $600 per shot. A charge uses roughly 200 pounds of powder worth $300 and 800 to 900 pounds of shot at about 30 cents a pound.
A lady at an art gallery exclaims about a painting of a family leaving a doomed city and a wife transformed into a pillar of salt. Her husband comments that he thinks he now has a chance to get a fresh one, reflecting a morbid joke in a Chicago Evening News feature.
Hetty Green known as The Richest Woman in America works in the Chemical Bank in New York. Leigh Mitchell Hodges describes her as hidden behind a wall of bookkeepers with only a brass grate and her veil revealing her in passing. She stays busy all day moving between desks and exits late, rarely seen without her plain dress and veil, eating a quick lunch at noon and guarding valuable papers in a satchel.
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