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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1910
Page
8
Simmons recalls a private secretary recounting a boss's rustic feast that impressed the group. The banquet featured hot boiled ham, corn, buttered bread, apple sauce and tea, pleasing the banker Cash who envied the appetite and the memory of the simple country meals.
Greece marked the Byron centenary with solemn ceremonies in Missolonghi. Local authorities archbishop troops and a large crowd gathered in the public garden as students and children processed to the poet’s statue and laid a wreath. Speeches followed.
The Greek poet Solomos led a hymn to Byron while the mayor sent a dispatch to the British minister in Athens. The message voiced deep gratitude for the immortal benefactor whose remains are kept by the inhabitants.
Arthur R. Collins of Sioux City relates a playful quip from his son at table. The boy asks why cannibals could not become missionaries if people become what they eat, contrasting vegetables with meat.
A dispute erupts between Copenhagen critics and theater managers over press coverage. Managers barred a critic from Old Maids Beds, calling it a special bed. A salesman touts the bed’s low design as a selling point for old maids.
A Philadelphia Press item extols the homely girl as essential and comforting in modern life. Her simplicity, honest work, and devotion to home and husband are praised as powerful forces shaping happiness and stability.
A visitor recalls arriving at Cheerynook on Long Island to see gate posts formed from carved bowlders. Each stone represents a friend of the owner, carved with name date and birthplace. The stacked stones, misshapen pillars, and dike create a living monument to friendships made.
Chicago physician William S. Sadler argues in a paper that suburban upbringing yields better health morals and happiness for children. He credits sunlight and outdoor time as the key to growth and vitality, noting pale sickly children arise from insufficient sunshine and fresh air.
In a New York Wall Street brokerage use room an umbrella was found on a stand with a sealed envelope addressed to the Downer tied with pink twine. The owner admitted taking the umbrella as a temptation during rain while customers waited, but the office boy could not identify the thief.
The law sets reserve ratios for national banks in New York Chicago and St Louis at 25 percent with half of that deposited with central reserve city correspondents. Country banks must hold 15 percent with two-fifths in banks and three-fifths with correspondents.
A statesman notes people pay less attention to studied oratory. In response a rival argues modern legislation relies on frequent roll calls, not dramatic speeches. Advertisements tout Preventies candy Cold Cure Tablets as a quick cold remedy sold by L D Miller.
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