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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
7
Loren H. B. Knox argues in the December Atlantic that mass production turns Americans into a uniform mass. He cites ready-to-wear clothing, processed foods, generic medicines, and standardized curricula as eroding personal discretion and the ideal of individuality in everyday life.
The Youth's Companion offers nearly a hundred complete stories and serials each winter, with 25 contributions from noted authors and many sketches. It promotes reading through long issues and urges subscriptions for 1909 remaining issues plus a colored Venetian Calendar for 1910.
Quotation likens Pittsburgh to a pie with a light top crust and a heavy lower crust. It critiques the middle class as perilously stuck below the surface, noting widespread comfortable salaries paired with pessimism about life. The piece cites Woman's Home Companion November.
Harper's Weekly celebrates a color enhanced Christmas issue with a three color cover by Alice Barber Stephens. The issue features works by Elizabeth Shippen Green J A Williams Harold Matthews Brett Harry G Dart Dan Sayre Groesbeck Albert Levering Horace Taylor Arthur William Brown Howard V Brown J Conacher and H C Wall among other noted artists.
Gilbert Parker William Dean Howells and Mark Twain join George Eliot in a new reprint lineup from Harners. Their works include Northern Lights Fennel and Rue Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven and The Mill on the Floss.
Edward Stratemeyer presents a boys adventure set in Maine and polar exploration. Two youths befriend a wealthy hunter who sails with them aboard a polar ship with a scientist. They reach the top of the world alongside Cook and Peary.
Edward Stratemeyer’s Lakeport series entry follows the Lakeport football squad as they form an eleven coached by a college man. It highlights exciting plays and a tale of growth from timidity to self reliance set against games on land and water with island scenes.
J. T. Trowbridge author of A Pair of Madcaps will spend the winter in Italy with Mrs. Trowbridge. They depart New York December 21 aboard the Romani c of the White Star line for Naples and Genoa, visiting Alassio Mentone and other Riviera resorts, returning in April.
A four year old boyPhilip goes to a neighbor for milk. He returns with an empty bucket and says the cow has dried up. He adds they won’t thaw the cow until spring. This quip appears in The Delineator for January.
Aaron Martin Crane prepares a second work titled A Search for Ultimate Truth the Divine Perfection Inherent in Man and in All Creation The volume appears as the leading title on Lothrop Lee Shepard Company spring 1910 list A senior critic labels the manuscript a discovery rather than a search.
Edward Stratemeyer’s First at the North Pole attracts wide attention as a leading juvenile book of the year. Published by Lothrop Lee and Shepard, its issue was delayed by a larger edition and a second edition has been ordered.
Crane and Co of Topeka announces the Charles M. Sheldon Year Book printed on handmade silk tissue Japanese paper and quoting excerpts from Mr Sheldon’s writings for daily reference. It sells for 1.00 postpaid.
Leah explains to her brother that a period is a dot and a comma is a period that sprouted in a humorous Delineator January lesson.
The column records deaths including E. H. Bennett of Boone aged 97, notes on corn harvests near Lake City, a denatured alcohol plant planned for Marshalltown, and Laurence C. Jones becoming Piney Woods school principal. It also covers awards, education groups, labor concerns, and various local incidents across Iowa.
The remark asserts that lasting happiness comes from actively using one's energies and not allowing them to stagnate. It emphasizes proactive effort and continuous activity as the path to fulfillment.
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