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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1913
Page
6
A Sergeant aboard a frontier stagecoach fights for survival after a crash. He tends a wounded Moylan and guards a trapped passenger, Miss Melmald, as savage foes press the hillside to attack. With escape unlikely, he weighs plans to save both himself and the woman amid the night siege.
A New York Evening Sun commentary notes that native cooking by the Philly Pine Woman may rival electric ranges, while condemning contemporary dances as barbaric. It warns of upcoming clashes between dances and native culture, predicting a retaliatory spillover into popular social entertainments.
The piece muses on longevity vs human life and notes abundant plant life in the county including grapes, olives, almonds, walnuts, berries, melons, corn, alfalfa, and vegetables. It highlights the raisin grape and seedless sultana as notable local products.
Clement Short in The Strand weighs modern greatness and names figures who have shaped their age. He nominates Thomas Hardy, Lord Lister, Thomas Edison for Britain and the United States, plus Marconi, Puccini, Coppes, Brahms, and Bstranas among other contemporaries across Europe.
A deadly fungus called mipusa museae attacks house flies and fleas, destroying many insects in fall. Infected dead flies cling to walls and windows, surrounded by white powdery spores that can infect other flies that touch them. It is unclear if contact with spores or spore-cutting kills the insects.
In a fragmentary vignette a grocer who has joined the militia is drilled in a shop. A trap door collapse interrupts practice as the grocer orders a woman away, insisting she knows nothing of war. The wiretapped exchange hints at fear and grit amid conflict.
The Rev Juaquid Thompson of the Presbyterian mission in Japan celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival as a mission worker. He helped organize Tokyo's first Protestant church and served as interpreter to the U S legation. He translated the Japanese penal code and criminal procedure, published in 1881, among other works. Now age seventy eight, he remains active in religious work with the Japanese church.
An old farm context urges welcoming young graduates from agricultural college back to work on the family farm. It warns against deceit by relatives or friends that harms the young person and the farming enterprise. The piece emphasizes supporting the youth and giving him a fair chance to apply his education on the farm.
Sir William Willcocks argues the arid region between Babylon and the Tigris is the ancient Garden of Eden. He notes Turkish plans and Anglo Egyptian efforts to irrigate the lower Nile and Euphrates corridor with river waters, projecting large-scale reclamation and eventual high-value development.
The article argues that reindeer introductions in Alaska have not yet proven the optimistic predictions of increasing U S meat supply, despite noting beneficial social effects on Eskimos. It links these ideas to historical theories about European advancement and the horse's influence on native peoples.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Carlsbad invalids with improbable resilience and humor. It cites legends and a mocked epitaph in a churchyard, attributed to a writer in Harper's Magazine August issue.
Fragmentary text describes concerns about Earth drying like the moon and references decades of scientists claiming certainty. The readable parts suggest debates on climate or environmental change and long standing predictions, but the source is garbled and uncertain.
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