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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1909
Page
6
A poet describes Wilmer's Woods and the Hill, with spring flowers birds and a tranquil pond. The speaker recalls a home with a grand brick house and ivy scented vines, imagining return and reunion at the hilltop setting. The piece blends nature, memory, and longing for a beloved house.
In Mecca a post office scene erupts as Miss Mehitable demands residents call on newcomers in the yellow house of Judge Anger. The crowd debates thefts from cellars, pork, wood, and cans while a drummer’s tip about the Beasley family deepens village tensions.
A Brooklyn Fagly dialogue reveals Josh, who is employed in a bowling alley, repeatedly picks up pins and discusses superstition and birth records with a Bible-reading girl doubting her own birth date. The humorous exchange highlights quirky beliefs and workplace eccentricities.
The article argues that Western civilization will banish many animal depictions from currency and standardize U S notes. Nine designs will replace nineteen, unifying portraits by denomination to reduce confusion. Presidents and founding figures appear on specific notes, with safeguards against living individuals' portraits.
Reports from Sourabaya to Philadelphia describe new industrial and scientific advances. Topics include rubber processing, private rail refrigerator cars in Brazil, biometry in bacteriology, and climate influences from mountain ranges and winds.
A. L. Kielland argues Napoleon never conceived peace as normal state, only as a pause between wars. He views Napoleon as the last ruler to fuse glory with war, after which war’s ritual faded as military power became industrialized and detached from pageantry. Also notes Mrs Althea Alexander's art study shift to water color.
TheLondon Tit Bits notes a theatre manager seeks a genuine novelty without real pugilists or battles while writers discuss real actors on stage and stenographers join muckraking, with pay criticism of stenographers earning nine dollars a week.
A quirky Arkansas tale claims a mother of twins named Kate and a would be twin boy Duplicate. After debate a compromise name Alar Lauricate was chosen in praise of the father a moonshiner. The piece notes the story as intimate yet presented as truth.
An old advertisement promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for back pain and headaches. It claims thousands of people were helped and cites Mrs. L. Spicer of DeKalb Illinois praising relief. Sold by dealers for 30 cents a box.
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