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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1907
Page
2
The piece discusses state of U S railroads amid general prosperity, congestion, and funding limits. It weighs options like gauge changes, increased track and electrification, estimating costs and noting public patience needed. It also includes anecdotal notes on safety and self defense for women in New York City.
A cruel assault is described where a man sneaks around a women's bathhouse at Coney Island. The women respond not with screams but by arming themselves with hot water and pouring it on him, forcing his retreat to the surf as he screams in fear.
The writer notes the Columbia and San Pedro wrecks mark a graveyard along the Pacific coast where ships meet tragedy. Captains and crews are blamed for failures in judgment amid fog and danger, with repeated ship losses nearby and other vessels sinking or wrecking along the coast.
A Chicago Journal extract argues that a mother's self sacrifice in home life yields true happiness. It praises motherhood as noble devotion, noting societal pressures to leave the home conflict with lasting affection and respect from children. The piece defends the quiet, domestic path as paying in memory and love.
The fragment quotes Dorothy Dix and Dorothy Dix style reflections on gossip and public judgment. It notes a diarist stationer in Philadelphia and contrasts social commentary with a New York American aside about no sale. The text hints at gossip as a social force and the diarist’s fussiness.
The text explains early timing devices for chess using sandglasses and then describes specialized clocks. A two clock system on a common base acts like a seesaw or uses a brass arm pivot to stop one clock and start the other. At game start both show 12, each move stops one clock and starts the other upon a player's move.
In Automobiledom, Scientist Light moves at about 187000 miles per second. Chauf feur-Gee remarks on the speed while Auto Enthusiast asks which machine was mentioned, and Pohentian responds.
In a Louisville Courier-Journal tidbit, Mr Jellus exclaims about a treasured photo. His partner retorts the image is really of him when younger, sparking a playful domestic moment about lost hair and memory.
Treasury officials probe the sharp drop in import value of diamonds, pearls, and other gems from May 1906 to June 1907. Explanations ranged from reduced wealth among jewel buyers to the abolition of moiety rewards for seizing undeclared dutiable goods, with officials debating incentives and duty among customs staff.
Seattle physician Dr. J Allen Smith counsels the young to delay marriage while prices remain high. He quips that big money buys the same value as the Iingeist, then a humorous exchange over fly poison orders reveals spending contrasts and a comic line about persistent pest control.
In a quip from Fliegende Blatter a beggar explains his method to extract aid from two women on the ground floor of an apartment house. He rings both bells simultaneously causing both to appear and compete for generosity.
A quip from Detroit Free Press mocks overconfident bets and moral excuses. The speaker questions if a man with a wife’s approval truly has a conscience, implying hollow convictions.
The piece traces red as a national color from Cromwell to modern symbolism. It notes red coats by Cromwell established national color, links red to freedom in Roman and French history, and cites the red cross as a modern aid symbol while referencing a red Exchequer book from Henry I era and other state associations.
A Pennsylvania reader credits Dean's Kidney Pills with reversing severe kidney symptoms and weight loss. The report then details a German census plan announced by Consul Harris from Mannheim, describing its scope on occupations, labor, agriculture, meat supplies, and trade, to be published in twenty five volumes.
A North Carolina mother recounts how Grape-Nuts aided her family after visiting Charlotte’s mayor who used the cereal on medical advice. She notes gains in weight and vigor, her dyspeptic infant improved after being fed soaked Grape-Nuts, and a flu outbreak left them unable to eat until the cereal and oranges restored appetite.
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