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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
7
A narrator profiles Mary Brown, a thirty year old cloaks factory forewoman with a past noted as honorable. She cared for a sick father and three younger siblings, kept them well dressed, and supported her family after her mother’s death. A fall wedding to a respected suitor is hinted.
A fourteen year old Morris Brown is described as a crippled boy who smashed a bakery window over a dispute about buns. The piece uses his case to critique wealth privilege and unequal justice, arguing that rich interests and bankers escape punishment while the poor are harshly treated. The outcome of the police court case is not provided.
A fragmented remark attributes social unrest to buns and invites consideration of the young citizen's plea. The source hints at a cause related to social conditions and daily life rather than larger political factors.
A Chicago women discussion ends without agreement on home essentials. The debate spans temper, finances, roles, and even a minister’s quip about a man and a cook stove. The admired solution: the three essentials are a husband a wife and love.
A feature essay extols smiles as modern optimism in a new age. It contrasts stern historic portraits with contemporary smile pictures of Roosevelt Bryan and Taft, arguing smiling improves health spirit and even dollars, urging readers to start the smile in the diaphragm and let it brighten the home and world.
The account contrasts Cleveland, where intoxicated men are treated as citizens and sent home or cared for when ill, with other places that punish drunken behavior as brute conduct. The piece highlights a humane, age old procedure now applied in Cleveland, reducing arrests and emphasizing care over punishment.
The author hails Cleveland for prioritizing life and property protection over dragging culprits into court. He argues the city saves costs on trials and attorneys and condemns archaic punitive methods. Cleveland is praised for adopting what he calls the Golden Rule in criminal justice.
A writer reflects on Charles Herzog of South Dakota who endured thirty years of remorse for murder and a wrongful hanging, describing his life as hell and citing moral verses to underscore the torment. The piece emphasizes Herzog's confessed agony and the universality of moral consequences.
Alarmed lodgers hear constant running above, then a new lodger explains he is taking medicine as prescribed by the doctor. He must take two nights in a row and skip the third, causing a loud thumping sequence in the house.
The article lists remarkable near escapes and deaths from falls and failed parachutes. Notables include a rustic’s neck break after slipping from a six barred gate and an Italian aeronaut’s 1000 foot descent with only a sprained ankle. It cites Whymper, Parville, Mme Morel, and Charles Woolcot among others.
A subway passenger weighed a heavy narrow oak box on a public penny weighing machine, not herself. She placed the muff and the box on the platform, inserted a penny, and read ten pounds before boarding a train with a smile.
The amoeba is a naked mass of protoplasm that flows in blunt processes. It moves by extending its changing processes along surfaces to feed and digests anything it contacts. When reaching maximum size it splits into two daughter amoebas, each with half of the parent.
The notice lists daily mail close and arrival times for multiple divisions including North South Big Four Northern Ohio Findlay Valnue and Bellcenter. It notes Sunday mail closings and Sunday arrival, with post office hours Sunday 9 to 11:30.
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