29 Jul 1910
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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1910
Page
1
The Republican County Convention was postponed to Saturday August 6 after a June 2 meeting at E. G. Boyd's Holst. County residents were urged to attend to nominate a ticket for clerk, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, and other offices. Prominent speakers and state officeholders were expected to discuss campbell issues.
An Ohio editor writes a playful plea for overdue subscriptions. He compares the editor’s pocketbook to others and notes the harvest is past, some readers sold hogs, and asks patrons to pay when big dollars jingle. The tone blends humor with a practical reminder about expenses.
A poem laments a sharp selling agent with a serpent tongue peddling useless gadgets and dubious books. It rails at overpriced trinkets, toothbrushes, soaps, and corsets sold by Boyd and Sons, urging buyers to break the cycle of ripoffs.
Local notes list visits and trips by residents including Sam Davis to Frisco and Mrs Sam Davis to Fall Cities. Several others travel for family, business or to visit relatives, with miscellaneous encounters noted.
A moving meditation on maternal devotion that endures poverty sickness and social scorn. The speaker praises a mother's steadfast kindness forgiveness and support, noting absence of prosperity does not chill love and that even a wayward child cannot erase a mother's bond.
A Southern farmer asks a farm hand about his worried look. The worker says his wife, the stravantes pusson, is always after money. She asks for one dollar then two, but he has not given her any yet.
On Sunday July 24th the 5th birthday of Mrs Maggie McLain wife of James McLain near Pilot Knob was celebrated. About fifty relatives attended a bounteous dinner while Mrs McLain, invalid for nine years, rested in bed. Messages of good wishes were exchanged and many neighbors joined the gathering at the McLain home.
Washington Special reports Representative Moss will introduce a bill tomorrow proposing a 25 dollar appropriation to establish a government mussel hatchery and fish culture station on the Wabash river in the Fifth district. Dr. David Star Jordan endorses the choice of the Wabash as ideal for mussel propagation.
A motivational exhortation urges young men to quit waiting for luck and instead work, economize, and persevere. It stresses rolling up sleeves, improving appearance, and pushing forward to seize life’s grand opportunities through grit and disciplined effort.
The article describes a plan for national postal savings banks with a 6 monthly deposit limit, a 500 account maximum, and 2 percent interest on all deposits except one dollar. It notes the board of trustees and regulatory steps, plus initial forms and sample regulations from foreign postal systems. It also includes unrelated moralizing text and miscellaneous errors.
Theodore Roosevelt draws large Indiana crowds and promotes the square deal and Republican progressivism. He will come with the Roosevelt message and urge voters to back constructive policies, rallying his legion on common ground. The piece lauds Roosevelt as a strong, wholesome figure whose visit pleases Hoosier readers amid rapid national growth and dissatisfactions with current conditions.
A speaker extols two educations one from others and one self taught. He urges taking action, warns against waiting for luck, and cites Lincoln and Garfield as examples of rising from humble beginnings through perseverance and self reliance. He stresses attending to one’s own business and self-help as life’s school.
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