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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1909
Page
2
A collage of brief quips covers topics from heat and summer resorts to aviation fairs. Notes on high shoe prices, business regulation repeal, and mayoral qualifications mingle with cultural asides on fashion, flies, and a Bronx river canoe incident.
The text states Nansen will revisit arctic waters to study ocean currents rather than seeking the North Pole. It adds a cautionary rule about anyone who rocks the boat being pitched into the water to sink or swim, reflecting the era’s rough nautical sentiment.
A Chicago man with one gray eye and one blue eye asks the St. Louis chief of police to find him a wife. He does not demand matching colors in a spouse.
Report notes popular unrest in Colombia linked to a grasshopper infestation as a possible factor, contrasting with a folkloric flea plague image. No authoritative causation offered.
A note envisions paper milk bottles replacing glass, suggesting future efficiency with daily morning deliveries in readers' preferred publications. The idea highlights shifting packaging and distribution tied to newspapers as a delivery medium.
Prof. Munsterberg says drinking is safe if moderate. The remark explains why the man who stops when his turn to treat the crowd arrives remains cautious and restrained.
A benefactor opposed to automobiles endows a Paris university with a chair in aviation. The piece contrasts the donor’s stance with harsh industrial scenes, noting the discomfort of heat in mills and on a lake boat, and critiques a straw bonnet as a false show of kindness to a horse.
The speaker notes heat waves drive corn maturation and fill grain elevators enabling cornmeal bread. They urge endurance and patience through trials, linking weather to sustenance and resilience.
The excerpt notes nature’s inscrutability and usefulness in unlikely roles. It mentions mosquitoes, snakes, and vultures, and adds that firemen may even repurpose motorcycles to aid their work.
A Chicago census taker notes men view the college girl as unsuitable for marriage. The piece laments the common bias that a wife who "knows too much" is doomed from the start.
The Hawaii labor dispute involving Japanese workers appears headed for settlement as laborers seem ready to return to work. Observers fear of race tensions or friction with Japan prompted by the strike seems unlikely to materialize. Such situations have occurred before.
June interest and dividend disbursements by railroad and industrial firms total 71,220,000, up 4,277,000 from last year. The increase signals improving business conditions and earning capacity with further gains expected in the near term.
A western bank official convicted of swindling served a few years, was pardoned and began a new life while society roots for reform. He gained another chance with thousands more vanished, raising questions about mercy tempering justice and public sympathy.
In a sun scorched ham mock Winthrope and Miss Leslie await Blake who went to fetch fish. They share improvised thirst relief using a metal key as a pebble substitute while pondering dangers of sharks and possible harm to Blake.
Blake returns from a perilous sea crossing exhausted and clashes with Winthrope over cigarettes. Miss Leslie witnesses as Blake attacks, pinning the Englishman, then scorns Winthrope and warns him to stop screaming. Blake rants about the danger around them and the crew.
Blake and Winthrope clash over fuel and fears after a wreck. They reconcile and improvise to survive, finding a coryphene fish and debating how to prepare raw meat as Miss Leslie, exhausted and thirsty, endures the ordeal aboard the stranded party.
A steamer wreck strands Miss Genevieve Leslie, Lord Winthrope, and Tom Blake on a deserted island. Blake, once shunned for roughness, becomes a hero by saving the heiress and English nobleman, who seeks Miss Leslie’s hand in marriage.
Blake ventures into the shallow sea to reach the sinking steamer’s topmast while Winthrope and Miss Leslie wait ashore. The trio faces thirst heat and sharks as they improvise shelter and hunt for fish and reeds for sun protection.
A fragmentary piece quotes a dialect exchange about food scarcity and reputation. It includes a dated testimonial ad for Resinol Ointment praising skin relief and ends with a proverb about judging a young man as a bear. The text blends humor, advertising, and social shorthand of a bygone era.
Vienna West Virginia resident Ena Wheaton credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with dramatically improving her health after years of illness. The testimonial asserts the remedy cures female ailments without narcotics and invites readers to write for confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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