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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
1
A collection of wry observations and biting one liners from a Brooklyn writer. It ponders ignorance and courage, open doors in Manchuria, Napoleon in snow, and the oddities of liberty, wealth, and appetite in a brisk, period voice. A NY writer muses on whales, lobsters, rats, and oysters with sly humor and social pokes.
A student has spent 27 years at Columbia University and suggests undergraduates there should improve beyond current athletic jokes, given such constancy as a model for dedication and progress.
A Virginia man files for divorce citing his wife as not a good cook. The case centers on a controversial remark that she told him to “feed the brute,” implying a dispute over domestic duties and household harmony.
A Smoky City minister launches a crusade against the fashion of weddings used by Pittsburg millionaires. The clash involves companies preachers and press, leaving little joy for the sudden rich in these days.
Western military academy pupils expelled a classmate for being a molly coddle while faculty allow scholars to govern themselves. The incident suggests other mollycoddles exist among the students.
An Indiana woman reports a drastic remedy for drunkenness after her husband came home intoxicated. She sewed him up in a blanket and horsewhipped him. The piece notes that while some may wish for reform, they should not advocate such painful methods.
A New York boy with the habit of saying What? was sent home by his employer with a note to his father asking that he be cured. The employer added that they would fire him if he returned. The boy’s fate contrasts with harsher treatment often faced by workers with such habits.
The common council of Newark New Jersey attacks billboard nuisance by forbidding crime representations and indecent pictures. Commercial posters may be art to some, but authorities condemn theatrical advertising as lacking aesthetic and moral standards.
A past objection to a young woman joining the varsity debating team at a coeducational college was dismissed. Critics worried judges would be biased by gender, but the woman proved her argument strength, confirming her fitness for formal debate trials.
The writer observes imperial hotel weddings in Tokio and notes Japanese social formality and music. He recalls travel hardships on trains, crowded berths, and a German officer and a travelling priest sharing space. A mother loses sons to war, and American bounty jumpers prompt a war anecdote. He contrasts bamboo ladders, hand carts, and rice-field labor with Japan’s evolving modern state and hints at a spring of national renewal.
Marie Sipré Miller, living in Helena Montana, recalls three years of backache and sharp pain when rising from chairs. She reports kidney and urinary troubles improving after using a product promoted by Foster Milburn Co, with dealer endorsements and a famous testimonial.
A humorous dialogue contrasts Johnny and his father over George Washington’s era. Johnny frets he would not want to live in Washington’s youth because his father did not wear a plug hat for snowball fun.
A Kansas mother credits Cuticura products with curing her two and a half year old son's eczema after three months of prior treatment failed. The account notes dramatic skin improvement and cites dates in 1907. The column also includes anecdotes about fashion sales, a snakebite tale, and a Chicago custody dispute over a child's curls.
Reeder notes the Indian appropriation bill ends relations of five tribes in a Kansas City Times style remark. Grump responds with a snide aside about his wife's cousin visiting, and a startled wish to be Indian. The exchange hints at social tensions and cultural caricature.
A correspondent interviews King Gustaf V noting his hands on state affairs during a Scandinavian crisis sparked by Norway's secession. The monarch, living in modest quarters, blends royal duties with a focused, practical mind and a strong political interest, while maintaining Swedish identity despite French ancestry.
A brisk overview traces how early home remedies like picra laxatives and hops tonics circulated in households then fed the rise of the patent medicine business. It notes Peruna’s Mennonite roots, Hartman’s transformation from local remedy to national brand, and the blend of practical folk practice with commercial manufacture. It also discusses Gustaf of Sweden, portraying him as democratic in temperament, athletic, and patient, balancing royal duties with personal interests.
In the Illustrated Sunday Magazine a chimney made of sticks and clay burned the Wilsons cabin one night despite Aunt Maria's efforts. A white neighbor asked Tom Wilson if his mother loved much, to which he replied he had not returned the pay, as he was at church and wore his coat.
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