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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1894
Page
2
In fragmentary prose the speaker reflects on Diogenes and ancient Corinth. The text urges openness to light and truth, condemning secrecy and enclosure, and invokes the spirit of the GA I I? to cast off blinders and welcome sun.
An American woman travels to the Elbe shores and befriends a large dog named Hector at a castle. Hector protects her as she grows close to a German count, who proposes a future together after a playful dogly allegiance proves pivotal. They decide to stay.
In the prairies a dwarf osier like compass plant grows as a perennial three feet tall with yellow flowers. Its leaves stand vertical with edges oriented north and south to aid travelers in darkness by sensing light on both surfaces, unlike other plants. Longfellow mentions it in Evangeline.
Boys along Maryland's Atlantic coast consider egg gathering a sport. The narrow reef guarding the eastern shore counties hosts many aquatic fowl nests that are often invaded and wantonly destroyed, highlighting conflict between youth activity and wildlife protection.
Verse urges optimism and resilience despite hardship and scorn. A narrative interleaves a motivational poem by Martha S. White with a Chicago Record street vignette showing a shoestring vendor facing a policeman on Madison Street Bridge.
London Tit-Bits questions the value of the high school system with a comical scene where Hortensia and her father debate potatoes. The father insistently offers taters, while Hortensia pretends ignorance of the term before confirming.
The piece blends legend of the phenix born from Eden and reborn after each cycle with notes on peer degradation by peer vote, and mentions ancient Nubian rock temples over four millennia old. It closes with Catholic etiquette and a pope addressed as holy or venerable father.
A Detroit Free Press story recalls a young collector who obeyed his boss’s rigid orders. He tracked down a debtor despite being told to wait six weeks, collected the bill with interest, and earned a six week salary as a reward. The boss then promotes him to head of the collection department.
A city merchant skilled with his hands spends an evening repairing a clock and stores the parts in a desk drawer. His mischievous son later places a wheel from another clock in the drawer, leaving one wheel over each night and stoking the father’s long puzzled effort to reassemble the mechanism. After two weeks the son confesses.
The Netherlands Society for the Promotion of Industry invites papers showing wind mill energy capture storage and transport. Drawings on white paper scaled to one-quarter. Prize is the society gold medal and £30. Submissions due by July 1 with author name in a sealed envelope to general secretary JF W Eeden in Haarlem, Holland.
A damning testimonial for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claims it relieves uterine and womb related pains. A letter from Louise Muller of Evanston Illinois praises the tonic and urges other women to seek Mrs Pinkham's advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
A brief note on hay types including grain and stock hay with reference to a fine line of work. Mentions Tourtellott and an agent role in driving and express services.
Thorley Food is touted as a perfect stock auxil iary that improves appetite and digestion. It is described as economical and profitable, claiming to save the life of valuable animals and allow feeding nearly a quarter less grain while keeping stock in better condition.
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