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Newspaper
Fremont Democrat
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1903
Page
1
A Chicago Record-Herald note urges making exercise a daily habit for health vitality and appearance. It warns inactive bodies grow dull, blood slows, and the brain loses sharpness, while regular breathing and daily effort keep muscles and skin youthful and robust.
The article reports inventions and discoveries ranging from an electric pickpocket alarm in Manchester to Muller’s microbes in gunfire experiments. It notes phosphorus production in electric furnaces, sunlight absorbing sugars releasing heat at night, thorium evolving into new elements, and Kraemer’s corn popping explanation in Philadelphia with details on endosperm cell structure.
A quotation argues love for home and family drives industry more than self interest. It credits the father’s duty to provide for children as motivating workers from blacksmiths to farmers, soldiers to teachers, with a final anecdote of Erskine’s courtroom courage spurred by his children.
The famed Euclid known as father of mathematics taught in Alexandria. When Ptolemy Soter asked for a shorter method, Euclid replied there is no royal road to learning. This succinct exchange has endured for about 2,200 years.
The article cites Forster feeding dogs with mineral-poor organic matter, noting death occurred sooner than with no food. M Herrera in Revue Scientifique, Paris, argues life is an aggregation of minerals and biology a chapter in mineralogy.
The Baltimore American quotes a cartoonish exchange praising courage and male bravado. It notes Spartacus-Women as a great incentive to manly courage and mocks fear in the face of a hypothetical scrap with the meanest man.
Lou Simons and Ralph Stoner top readers this week while Vina Armstrong and Erma Stevens lead physiology. Reports praise parental visits, punctuality, and class achievements across multiple grades, with notable spelling and arithmetic matches, and a satisfaction guarantee for Wizard Cough Elixir from local drug firms.
The Louisiana supreme court confirms a last session act that punishes desertion of wives and children with hard labor imprisonment. After initial suspensions, the decision solidifies the law, urging deterrence of wife desertion while noting no expected collapse of marriage.
This week's market notes indicate fat cattle moving from Hamburg to Chicago to ship 2 cars for M Gordon and 14 cars for Fin nell, 8 cars for Frank Gillman, and 2 cars for Wm Carpenter at St Joseph. Tomorrow S Finnell plans to ship 4 trains to Chicago.
A special execution directs Ikk P. Dixon to sell at public auction on October 21, 1903 in Sidney Iowa the Hamburg Creamery Lot five and six block one hundred eleven Hamburg Fremont County with all machinery, cans, stock, fixtures and furniture to satisfy a 1903 judgment of M Liggett et al against The Hamburg Creamery Company. The sale will be at 10 o clock a m in front of the courthouse door.
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