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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1911
Page
6
The article recalls Julia Ward Howe as modest and well dressed, recounting a Beaton painter’s anecdote about her hesitation to pose and her wry remark on mercy over justice. It also features a child’s humorous take on age, with Little Marget quipping to Aunt Alice about looking not new.
Uiattle Creek Michigan January 7. Letters from Dr. E B and C W Post discuss The Road to Wellville and Grape-Nuts. The piece argues speech reveals faith and inner life, urging temperate speech and living as Christ.
In Buffalo New York snow slowed life as a cat ran into a church pursued by a dog causing a panic during a prayer service. The cat fled upstairs to the steeple and leapt from a window to escape. The dog followed and died from the fall. services were interrupted.
The passage argues that enthusiasm fuels all true work and that a heart grown cold becomes mere craft. It contrasts scientists artists and leaders with citizens driven by patriotism, asserting love as life’s deepest force. Selfishness and narrow aims shrink the spirit and bind it to drudgery.
The New York Commercial asserts Canada’s wheat belt will grow dramatically, predicting Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia reach ten million people by 1920. It cites vast wheat lands, rising railways, and immigration, with profits of 5 to 10 dollars per acre for Western Canadian farms and many 160 acre homesteads still available through government agents.
Fear of plague triggers rat eradication campaigns across several Suffolk towns. Medical officers urge residents to destroy vermin and even invoke drastic steps, including sacrificing domestic cats. An iron cart collects killed rats while notices link rat carcasses to disease spread. London efforts aim to keep rats off ships using concave disks on hulls to trap them.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes two doctors gave different recommendations, culminating in a playful jab about mixing their advice. The piece contrasts professional status with tradesmen by suggesting tradesmen can buy and sell professors.
A brief quotation from Professor Davidson in the London Quarterly Review argues that the church’s influence mirrors the depth of its faith and devotion. It asserts that genuine world impact comes only from a truer religion and that Christians’ influence equals the quality of their belief.
A reflective line asserts that individuals choose their own fate by effort or inaction, noting the courage to face life’s duties as essential to avoid being discarded or forgotten.
In Philadelphia seven year old Charles McGrath awoke from a nightmare crying that he was dead. Hours later bricks and stone fell from a chimney on his roof crushing him as his mother carried him to a hospital. Earlier fears and a kite outing preceded the fatal accident.
Eddie begs to stay up for Aunt Emma’s midnight arrival but his mother denies permission saying five hours past bedtime is too long. Eddie insists he can stay awake if his father sings lullabies. The piece ends with a wry note on suffragettes gaining power and offices preferring men to dodge women.
In Negaunee Michigan workers exhuming graves found the nearly decayed body of Mrs Joseph Fa eleven years after death. The body was found petrified weighing six pounds and easily identified by workers.
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