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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1906
Page
4
A fragmentary poem divides springtime romance and coming autumn. It depicts awakening love giving way to aging, with imagery of white blossoms, neon morning mist, and a shifting heart. The speaker laments fading passion as autumn and warfare-like conquest intrude, closing with social poet Thomas Wood Stevens.
A bank tale in a small town centers on Mr. Blakely, its exacting president, and a private room behind a green baize door. Mrs. Blakely forces a confrontation about access, testing long standing rules that protect the bank’s private space.
Mrs Blakely, distraught over the disappearance of her husband Richard Blakely, orders a carpenter to force a green baize door at a bank partner's home. Behind a trap door a vault holds a furnace and a strange silver coin apparatus. Blakely lies dead as Mrs Blakely declares his crime and secret.
A Baltimore lawyer recounts securing a verdict of temporary insanity for an Irishman charged with assault with intent to kill. After the acquittal, counsel and client met months later and discussed a promised fee of 500, yet the client quips he was crazy thin. The tale, framed as a Harper's Weekly joke, ends with the lawyer doubting the claim's merit.
An old Weston minister recalls how a generation trusted the Farmers Almanac for funeral weather. When a widow asked about the burial date, she sought a Pleasant day in the almanac and the funeral was scheduled accordingly.
In cold weather blanket your horses while stopping. Warm the bits before using. To get horses from a burning barn or stable, when panic-stricken, put the harness on them and they can then be easily and safely removed. If no harness is at hand, one's coat or blanket thrown over their heads makes them tractable.
A Department of Agriculture report highlights dairying as the farming business with the widest profit range. It notes variability in returns across dairy operations and emphasizes market and production factors influencing earnings.
The remark argues that if the Northwest Passage is truly found, the Panama Canal project should lose funding. It claims no yellow fever mosquitoes linger in the Passage and questions ongoing Panama expenses.
Dispatches from Berlin say Chancellor von Bulow told the Reichstag duels are necessary yet the Emperor forbids them to the army. The New York Tribune notes the clash between necessity and imperial authority and hopes the Emperor will end the superstition in Germany as a civilized nation.
The Norwich Bulletin notes last year 290,882 arrivals over 14 were illiterate and one third had under $50 cash. It argues immigration burdens a wealthy country and claims immigrants produce more criminals and dependents in proportion to natives.
The London World laments a waning romantic era as young men avoid passion, letters, and heartfelt vows. It blames modern apathy for dull courtship and suggests fiction compensates with extreme fates for heroines, including suicide or confinement.
Leslie's Weekly blames apathy and indifference of the people for political corruption. It condemns a double standard where one may commit crimes to gain power yet be deemed a gentleman or statesman in other life, fueling national governance evils.
The piece cites Waldron's Hand Book of Currency and Wealth showing over four million US families, about a third of the nation, live on under $4000 per year per family. It notes more than half the families earn less than $3000, two thirds under $5000, and one in twenty over $3000 annually. It also cites experts predicting the rich will grow vastly richer, with the top 50 or 60 billionaires possibly accumulating 50 to 100 billion more, depending on longevity of figures like Rockefeller and Sage.
Charles Cristadoro describes a sharp-tail grouse that, after a head wound from a distant shot, rises in a straight ascent before its nerves fail and it plunges earthward. He recalls mallards and quail doing the same, noting the bird’s final fall as a direct descent after a skyward surge.
Patrick and Timothy, city workers with plenty of time for chat, imagine how they would spend a million. Patrick plans luxury hotel stays and lazy mornings, while Timothy jokes a longer pick handle to ease a tired back, revealing a blunt view of work and wealth.
A quirky list of brainteasers and wordplay riffs presents methods of counting sides, wheels, and shadows. It weaves calls to attention to the dead, the blind, and the rain while hinting at milestones and hidden prayers.
The Kansas City Journal outlines Don Luis Terrazas 8 million acre Chihuahua estate detailing more than 1 million cattle 100000 horses 700000 sheep and branded calves in spring. Over 40000 workers tend slaughter and packing houses near Chihuahua City as vast herds move in refrigerated cars with thousands of people on the estate.
The text argues that extreme height disrupts body proportion, causing fatigue in life’s struggles. Army experience supports that very tall men drop out first during long marches. It suggests five feet five to five feet nine inches as best for bearing exertion. It also notes about 10,000600 migratory sheep in Spain.
Consul Seyfert reports Ontario has moved from statute labor to a direct tax funded road system. Township control dominates with county oversight, aided by provincial subsidies. By 1909-14, 1624 miles improved with modern machinery and better drainage. Perth County shows 1302 miles with 672 gravel roads. Snow challenges persist. a 1906 act standardizes sleigh runner width to widen tracks for double teams.
A Galveston Tribune tale recounts a witness under oath in court who jokes through the proceedings. The witness. says he has known the prisoner as a boy and insists the case is named Jones. The judge orders him to answer, while the wit keeps deflecting with humor and religious labels, prompting the constable to remove him.
James H. Macdonald urges town selectors in Connecticut to clean culverts and gutters, pare shoulders below travel surface, add small amounts of gravel in road centers and ruts, remove loose stones with a rake, and apply stone cushions to prevent bonding damage. A farm roller helps, screenings are unnecessary, and watchfulness prevents a new surface. Swedish school children plant about 600 900 trees annually under teacher guidance.
A compilation of aphorisms and wry reflections on motive humor and duty followed by a dramatic temperance anecdote from Irving Grinnell of New York. The piece includes Eliot Lamb Irving and Addison quotes and ends with a barroom story about a wife and children awaiting at home.
Arthur N. Jervis denounces straining to mechanize fear as he reviews automobiles in Everybody's. He contrasts “The Modern Dragon” with safe progress, warning that public spectacle may mask real perils of roaring, flame spewing machines in a three hour, thirty mile circuit.
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