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Newspaper
Fremont Democrat
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1903
Page
4
A moral essay compares a morbid sensitive girl to a delicate plant that shrivels at touch. The writer urges self recognition and spiritual treatment to end the constant distress, noting family fear and friends’ unease at her fragile reactions.
A feature describes handmade scrap baskets with pasteboard sides, cretonne covers, satin lining, and ribbon bows as examples of tidy craft. It endorses female cooking skill for mothers and notes the value of a household education, citing the Unique School For Brides in Philadelphia teaching cooking, dressmaking, and cleaning to brides and prospective brides.
The American Queen extols a girl's usefulness at home noting that true help goes beyond tasks asked. It emphasizes anticipating needs, relieving the mother of prompting, and maintaining cheerful willingness as the core of service to family.
Three women station agents in Indiana, each serving as sole telegraph operators, freight and express agents, and baggage masters at their stations. The division superintendent says they maintain the cleanest, best stations and the tidiest books, and that women agents can work in large towns as well as small places.
Advert describes many farms for sale across Missouri and nearby states. Listings include 160 acres near Lowry, Holt Holtwood and Cass counties with rich soils, timber, and spring water. prices from 22.50 to 45 per acre. Multiple tracts include 194, 365, 1065, and 1090 acres with improvements, pastures, orchards, and rail access. Also notes 320 acre Benton county site on Rock Island line and various river bottom and upland tracts with houses, barns, and fences. Prices vary up to 45 per acre and up to 20 000 total for large parcels.
A Youth’s Companion note describes a simple air pressure demonstration using two closely fitting tumblers and a water soaked paper, plus a household game where players guess a historical figure from anecdotes. It also includes verses about Washing the Dishes and Polly goes a fishing, illustrated with playful nautical imagery.
In a suburban villa garden Dora plays with a red balloon as Charlie the puppy pounces and bites it. The balloon bursts leaving only the skin, Dora cries for her mother. The passage ends with a set of light pun riddles about theft and authorship.
The Alabama state superintendent of education spoke at the Montgomery good roads convention linking road quality to school accessibility and success. He argued that even the best school facilities fail without good roads, citing Morgan and Gilbert on roads as a measure of national civilization and opportunity.
Hon. Martin R. Dodge urges $0.25 per ton mile on U S roads versus 0.08 in France to show road savings. He notes farmers pay half national revenues yet receive only 10 percent of appropriations, urging federal highway aid. Skeene asserts France’s roads boost prosperity and rural output with better transport.
The piece argues wide tires aid road maintenance by smoothing and packing surfaces while narrow tires tear up. Wide tires act like road rollers, reducing costs and labor for repairing dirt or stone roads. It urges readers to adopt wide tires and persuade neighbors to do the same.
The rural delivery system now spans over 300000 square miles or about a third of the U S territory. Carriers are shown efficient and trustworthy, with only six of thirty seven removals last year tied to criminal postal violations. Extending service nationwide requires 27000 more carriers beyond current staff.
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