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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
6
Meadowson and Rose Meet Over Mushrooms In Rural Chance
In a village moment a big farmer George Meadowson confronts a young woman named Rose Carol harvesting mushrooms near his farm. They share breakfast, joke about poaching, and confess feelings, leading to a proposal mood as Rose reveals her name and the two connect over a stolen basket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Fensbro
Polly
Ture
Rose Carol
Rose
Meadowson
George Meadowson
Tose
Carol
Jose
New York News
Disappointing Lecture Leaves Sawins Dissatisfied
In a quiet parlor, Mrs Sawin probes the value of a lecture while Mr Sawin recounts the evening. The program featured band music, prayers by multiple ministers, and a Scotland lecture that failed to inspire him. He jokes that the band saved his fifteen cents and jokes about missionary language and architecture. The note ends with a stray line on rice and teakwood as principal exports of Slam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Bidder
Morton Hiaimpstead
Devonshire
England
London
Remarkable Feats of Mathematical Geniuses
Indianapolis boy eight years old George Hunter astonishes with instant mental calculations without paper or pencil. The piece recalls geniuses like George Parker Bidder Zerah Colburn and Jebediah Buxton, noting their early gifts, education, achievements, and eventual decline or death, and suggests Hunter may or may not sustain his talent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ndianapolis
George Hunter
Hunter
George Parker Bidder
St. Paul's Cathedral
Adam
Camberwell
Edinburgh
Robert Stephenson
Birmingham
Ufe
Dartmouth
Zerah Colburn
Cabot, VI
Colburn
Bidder
Jebediah Buxton
Buxton
Elmerton
Derbyshire
Jebediah
Manhood
Maryland
Indianapolis
Wise Words and Moral Maxims From Noted Thinkers
A collection of brief moral maxims and reflections from authors and philosophers. Quotes touch on inner life, religious virtue, patience, happiness, and daily kindness, urging character, cheerful bearing in calamity, and simple acts of goodwill.
Ireland‟s Great Orator Captures UK Attention
The London Saturday Review praises Mr Healy as the most brilliant yet sharply sardonic speaker in the House of Commons. His oratory is described as cruelly effective and unflinchingly direct toward both nominal and real opponents, provoking strong reactions among observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Healy
House of Commons
Mr. Redmont
London Saturday Review
A Teacher For Fifty Years
John M. Roys of Clayton is the oldest teacher in Western Massachusetts and Connecticut by years and service. Now tutoring the Canfield family in Canaan Valley Conn, Roys began teaching at twenty two and devoted all but two years to education, shaping two generations of Canfields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Roys
Clayton
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Roys
William Canfield
Canaan Valley
Conn
Canfield
Norland Nur Series Hotel Opens For Children In London
The Norland Nurseries in London operates child friendly suites for well to do families traveling or living in unamiable climates. Six two room suites host about eighteen children from infancy to eight or nine years, each with day and night nursery care and priced by age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
London
Norland Nurseries
Chicago Newa
South Africa Women Petition Natal Parliament for Franchise
Natal women members of the local branch of the Women's Suffrage League circulate a petition to extend parliamentary franchise. They argue justice equity and expediency demand voting rights since women own property pay taxes and are subject to laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Natal
Women’s Suffrage League
Fair
New Foods From Savage Beginnings to Future Plates
A chemist notes humans may eat 200 to 300 more foods yearly by 2000 as governments push for variety. Historic feeds came from savages who refined weeds into delicacies. examples include eggplant tomato and buckwheat. The Klamath Indians now consume many unknown vegetables like wichpi kotsonoka wokas as staple foods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mediterranean
Description of General Mell and the judge's tale of Bell
Judge Ben B Lindsey described Adjutant General Bell with a humorous anecdote from Victor Colorado during military rule. A Scotch observer recalled Bell shouting a grand command with a 100 foot sword as dawn broke and the sun moon and stars responded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben B. Lindsey
Denver
Bell
Cripple Creek
Colorado
Straw Mountain
General Bell Eliting
Chicago
Easterner Seeks Pie on Night in Kansas Hotel
A traveler delayed by floods in Kansas spends the night in a small town hotel. The menu lists many pies for show, but the waitress explains the bill is decorative and the kitchen only makes mince pie on special occasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Kansas
Washington
The
Met
Rough Rider Mizner Sends Telegram From Vallejo
J H Mizner a former Rough Rider to Theodore Roosevelt kept at home to tend twin boys on inauguration day. Mizner sent a telegram apologizing for absence citing teething children. The President answered with pleasure and thanks for the congratulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Mizner
Roosevelt
Vallejo
Mare Island
Mizner
Sacramento Bee
The most economical power producer
A Boston Herald report on Professor Atwater and a Weslayan University experiment using a stationary bicycle inside a wood lined box shows a man producing nearly twice the energy of a locomotive for the same fuel. It argues human power is the most efficient engine, with only about 15 percent of fuel energy converted to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atwater
Wesleyan University
Hllman
Boston Herald
His Meddlesome Way Prevails in a Builder Case
A homeowner audits a contractor on a $3000 house project. He challenges the foundation, brick, wall tying, and lumber quality to force adherence to the contract. The contractor warns that Jones’s meddling could jeopardize profits as work adjusts to specifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Smith
Kind Neighbors and a Farm Dream
Miss Jenkins a lifelong city resident plans a country farm with a steady horse two cows hens and a pig The Adams boy from next door will help with chores and she expects to trade grown pigs for smaller ones in a friendly rural barter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Jenkins
Adams
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