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Newspaper
Flora Enterprise Sentinel
Location
Flora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1905
Page
7
A Houston Post piece by J. M. Lewis paints a tender scene of a parent amid daily chaos. The narrator finds joy in a child's mischief and bright blue eyes, as lullaby mornings yield to busy days and finally a quiet, hopeful moment. The affectionate vignette captures the intimate humor of early parenthood.
In a tense breakout, D’ri and companions flee a British force after signaling danger from a burning yard. They commandeer water hoses to thwart the pursuers, ride hard through woods toward a grand French chateau, and join a dinner with Count Bell. The narrator, dazzled by the de Lambert sisters, receives a commission and departs at dawn, contemplating danger and a blossoming romance.
The future poet queen of Roumania, Carmen Sylva, recalls a Rhine castled childhood as a lonely princess who played with castle trees as mates. By eleven she wrote poetry, at fourteen a drama, and by twenty had drafts of poetry, plays, stories, and novels, but published only after moving to Roumania with Prince Karl.
A witty anecdote from Smiths Weekly about a hostess hosting two young officers who could only attend one due to duty. When asked where the other was, she jokes about tossing up who would come and the punchline: I lost. The brief reflects light social humor from the era.
A country schoolmistress with humor and long experience explains the word kiss. She notes kiss as a noun but commonly used as a conjunction, never declined, more common than proper, not singular, usually plural, and it agrees with me.
A roundup of events from March to late March including Emperors William and Edward preparing for visits, Prohibition in Maine, a colliery explosion in Hungary killing ten, insurance policy disputes, gambling bills in Tennessee, and arbitration calls. Also notable: deaths of Mary Mahoney and Fred Faulkes, Cleveland’s birthday, sugar refinery layoffs, Stanford’s funeral arrivals, large bank deposits, Oklahoma tornado, Lewis and Clark expo funding, Dowie estate expansion, Dowie purchase details, a U.S. attorney appointment, Shan non City fire losses, a Kentucky suicide, a fatal freight wreck near Tellico, self immolation in New Jersey, a major donation to American Tract Society, and several construction collapses with no fatalities.
A comic exchange from the Boston Transcript ponders why a wife is called a man's help meet suggesting a marriage meeting as a formality. The Atlanta Journal notes an English scientist claiming insects enjoy whisky, echoing a prior remark that man is an insect.
Advertisement for Pusheck's Kuro claiming cure for weakness nerves rheumatism indigestion and other blood and nervous troubles. Promises renewed vigor endurance and youth with a dollar price option and free advice from Dr. Pusheck Chicago. Cites a New York Times quote about wealth and happiness.
Erie Railroad orders 137 very heavy freight locomotives and 5600 freight cars. The firm also builds three new balanced compound passenger engines and three heavy Pacific type engines named Their Busy Day. Microbe dialogue suggests plans to propose and get busy.
Seeding has started in Medicine Hat Lethbridge and other points as warm weather boosts plowing. Reports from Red Deer Alberta note thriving crops and dairy mixed farming with good water. Outlook remains positive with room for hundreds of thousands more settlers and strong demand from the United States for Western Canada crops.
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