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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
6
In a dramatic exchange from the Meggendorfer Blastter, a father questions why a betrothed must love roses as the daughter asserts happiness and ambition. The dialogue contrasts expectations of love, marriage, and pride with a lyric tone echoed in a Chicago Record-Herald fragment.
A social observer muses on why the ugly woman seems to suffer no notable life. He argues all women are beautiful, from Eve to the present, and that ugliness remains unseen or nonexistent. The piece blends satire with metaphysical conjecture about beauty and fate.
A New York Press piece quotes Victor Smith criticizing English railway methods while praising American efficiency. He notes English locomotives consume more coal and oil, require more repairs, and claims many American engines are kept in use without rest, likening English habits to rust. The discussion mocks English caution and extols rest and maintenance as keys to longevity.
The California Supreme Court decides in conflicts between next of kin and will claimants that a man cannot will away his corpse after death. Custody of the body goes to next of kin rather than the administrator. The rule rests on authorities showing no property in a dead body absent statutes. The piece urges statutory change to enable posthumous medical research via wills.
An elderly fisherman over eighty years old, who has fished daily for more than half a century and cannot read or write, won $20,000. His niece selected the ticket number for him in the drawing.
A list of diverse notes includes Gov Yates possibly using appointing power to name three new circuit judges Alfonso XTIF is not a Spaniard but fair skinned with blue eyes and curly hair Prof Hinckley G Mitchell of Boston University School of Technology travels to Palestine for a year as director of the American School for Oriental Study and Research B EF Meek died in Frankfort Kentucky at sixty He supposedly never fished William Pitt repealed the income tax in 1798 during war expenditures Honoraux French foreign minister will retire from politics to pursue literature James Lawrence Jr of Gratton Massachusetts is viewed as the most popular man at Harvard this year known as Jim a football player and varsity oarsman from a wealthy New England family with democratic leanings
A compilation of curious measurements and facts across science and daily life. It notes weights per gallon, child mortality by gender, British wire production, pork and gold densities, cotton exports by the United States, Manitoba versus Britain in size and population, sun heat melting ice, public baths in the German empire, soil absorption rates, alcohol content in beverages, port and whisky ratios, pendulum clock drift with heat, and the effect of heat on pendulum length.
Gleanings notes vast rail traffic with 2,000,900,000 passengers and 950,000,000 tons of goods in a year. It cites diverse facts from sparrow brood counts in England and Maryland to sea salt composition. Also mentions hospital wing for nurses at University of Maryland and historic boiler explosion totals from The Locomotive.
Mercury’s year is eight days Venus 225 days and Mars 687 days. Turpentine eases shin burns. Mr Morris IX Jesup perfects an exchange between America Museum and South Kensington. Acetylene black from acetylene carbon yields pure india ink. Arnold Arboretum in Boston to expand work on slender income. aim to raise 300000 more. MIT conducts London entrance examinations. London Engineer notes American competition ahead.
A Toledo Blade correspondent reports a White House servant named George has become the center of social envy after showing prosperity in a new store suit. He allegedly bred and sold kittens from the White House, delivering them to fashionable ladies via South Washington as buyers sought the “prettiest” kitten, with revenue and numbers kept closely guarded.
Court of appeals in New York established that a corporation can be liable for negligent dental treatment when it represented itself as carrying on a dental department. The plaintiff, a woman, proved the company employed a dentist who may have erred, and she did not know the real owner. The decision estops the company from denying it operated the dental service and supports a malpractice claim against the corporation as the servant’s employer.
A north county man at the foot of the Peaks of Otter burned down a premier Bedford vineyard after turning pruned grapes into wine and repeatedly sharing it with family and neighbors. The excessive drinking became a nuisance and led to the decision to destroy the 1,000-plant vineyard.
At Comtesse sig Gretfelin s Paris reception two young lions leaped onto a saloon drag, a lily decked car, prompting cheers from guests. Prince de Arenburg had brought the animals to France for the Paris Berlin race but did not witness their stunt. A Vienna court notes that a nervous shock can be a serious accident, awarding damages after a passenger claimed shocks from a conductor urging passengers to jump from a local train.
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