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Newspaper
Fremont Democrat
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
4
In Emma Dowdini’s Our Little Ones, Loyd loves all garden creatures from robins to ants. He watches a toad peel off its old skin to reveal a new coat and learns how toads shed skin, growing more fond of his toad afterward.
The article surveys spinning tops across cultures from Sioux wood tops to Chinese and Siamese designs. It explains whistles or sings when spun, compares American, German, and French tops, and notes the American top endures rough play better than its European rivals.
Epigrammatic exhortations urge self reliance and personal responsibility. The passage advises keeping a steady course, facing envy, acting with energy, avoiding deceit, delaying marriage until able to support a wife, and loving God country and truth. It frames a character guide for youths shaping fortunes through restraint and effort.
A fragile, readable vignette about a boy who treats the thermometer as a mysterious heat source. In March he bursts in asking for the instrument, revealing curiosity about its function and a simple domestic context.
A Springfield Republican item recounts post dinner speaker jests about cab loyalties. Ex Judge Towland is accused of telling a tale at dinner for Joseph Choate. In London a guest asks for a cab from Mr Gilbert who jokes you are a cab but a four wheeler. The bishop is teased as well. The piece notes this as a good story.
Experts urge ending engrave in London by law and switching to American stoves to cut fog. London burns over 10 million tons of coal yearly at about 45 million dollars, with five sixths wasted by grates. Each ton heats only 300 weight, the rest lost up the chimney. Coal dust fills the air at 20 000 tons daily, harming buildings and costing Parliament repairs. Cleopatra's Needle decay blamed on this pollution.
Seth Low relates a Boston Herald story about a western seminary entertainment where women planned to hoist men to a dorm window in a basket. A vigilant professor entered the basket and signaled to raise it. in panic the students let go the rope as his head appeared above the sill.
A Reading railroad conductor recalls Nadning station near Reading where there is no regular agent. A local businessman acts as an improvised agent, stopping trains by flag only when he thinks passengers might want to alight, as in a recent incident at forty miles per hour.
A Youth's Companion piece recalls how James G Blaine once remembered a five year old fellow traveler by spruce gum incident. The article notes Blaine credits daily review of events and people as the core practice and praises memory as useful beyond self.
The oldest swords began as short clubs sharpened over time and evolved from wood to stone to bronze iron and steel. As civilizations advanced swords lengthened to keep distance in combat. By the fifteenth century fencing emerged and the rapier peaked in development.
A Moscow throne room houses a vast collection of crowns from Poland Kazan Georgia Astrakhan and Persia along with czarist insignia. The standout is a double crown made for Peter the Great and his brother and the imperial Catherine crown set with 2536 flawless diamonds.
The passage contrasts Japanese mill labor with Lowell practices. It notes mills run continuously with noon and midnight handoffs, most workers are children, about 2600 under fifteen in Osaka handling 3700 spindles, versus 300 in the same role here. A Lowell mill with 4061 looms and 122000 spindles uses 700 men and 1500 women.
Fragmentary text states mice will be part of submarine equipment below the water surface. They are described as detecting gas and protecting the crew from asphyxiation, with claims of high sensitivity.
The article notes pigeons have served commerce and speculation, citing 18th century examples. An Italian in 1770 allegedly sent winning lottery numbers to himself via carrier pigeon, and the London Rothschild branch reportedly used pigeons to receive Waterloo news three days early to profit by government stock movements.
A description claims the Hercules beetle grows up to six inches and notes tales of vast numbers along the Mammoo River. It alleges the beetles draw sap from tree rind with their horns, causing the juice to flow and intoxicate them, making them fall to the ground.
Beatrice Lane confronts Philip Ewing during a heated tea room dispute about control and fidelity. Beatrice asserts independence, forgiving but firm, while Philip admits fault. Their hostess quiets the moment, guiding the couple to a private room as a renewed commitment emerges.
An elderly woman who did chores visits a neighbor and enjoys her stay. She tells a child she will leave soon and asks him to accompany her partway, but he declines because they will have dinner once she departs.
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