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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1899
Page
3
An archival note records this item entered at the Denver Indiana post office as second class matter on April 12 1897 indicating its archival classification and date.
The Warsaw post office was robbed last week with a blown safe and $1500 in stamps and money orders taken. The theft was carried out in a systematic manner and no clue to the robbers has been found.
Two colored students, a boy and a girl, gain admission to North Manchester college. In response, five Alabama students withdraw. The college president said colored students would be admitted so long as they complied with the college rules and regulations.
A writer notes that while cars will dominate, horses may stay for literary purposes. He jokes about an electric brougham and a gasoline road wagon causing scenes of trouble. The piece adds cautions about swearing and praises printing office discipline and proofreading.
The author contrasts Europe punishing attackers of royalty with America tolerating street abuse of officials. He warns such tolerance breeds anarchy from impulsive national sentiment and urges reverence for authority to sustain stable governance.
A man walking in the country witnesses a majestic golden eagle rise proudly but soon falter and fall lifeless at his feet. He inspects the bird and discovers a hidden secret that explains the sudden tragedy.
A Jeffersonville Reflector passage likens a small weasel feasting on an eagle to temptation. It compares a minor initial impulse to a sin that grips the soul and leads to death and destruction, using vivid wildlife imagery to warn readers about hidden vice.
A speaker argues disagreement and bloodshed persist while humans remain mortal. Only when immortality is assumed and universal judgment arrives will peace dawn, contrasting with efforts to convert swords to plowshares and spears to pruning hooks. Historical precedent supports the view.
A man unable to afford his home paper buys advice from foreign ads. He spends a dollar to learn to stay sober, fifty two cent stamps to learn beet raising, and a postal reply tells him to pull the tops. He also sends fifty cents for household articles and gets needles. A twin of this man sent five dollars to learn to write without ink and was told to use a lead pencil. He mailed two dollars to learn to make money without work and was told to fish for suckers like us.
Thoughts by Nemo discuss heaven as earthly bliss ideal and contrast with fashionable aestheticism. The essay notes Chicago mirror halls reflecting faces and the boredom of duplicates, then observes the folly of sameness and describes an Irish voter alternating parties across elections.
A narrator recalls Prohibition supporters who rode to a county election and faced a heckler who claimed he had voted Democrat for fifteen years. A Carolinian wagon train moving to Arkansas is mocked, then returns home to Carolina a year later, diminished and wary.
The Rev Srl R Hicks Almanac for 1900 offers storms astronomy and meteorology content in 196 pages with nearly 200 engravings. Priced at 25 cents, it comes as a premium for Worp and Works subscribers at 1 dollar yearly.
To Make Life Happy. Sweet music appeals to the heart and soul and lightens life’s burdens. The Steger Piano aims at the highest standard of excellence with durable materials and full guarantee. The Steger factories in Steger Illinois are among the West’s largest. Write for a free descriptive catalogue from Steger & Co Chicago established 1879.
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