Broadfield and McLure Pubs Glenwood Opinion Notes
A Glenwood Opinion column lists varied items including social maxims and light trivia. It cites Silk production by China and Japan, skin pores, Sweden strike activity, plant composition, Admiral Yamamoto, demographic breakdowns of New York, cabbage yields, Shaw and Webster quips, and a projected fast ocean voyage by Peter Cooper Hewett with iceberg caution.
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Peter Cooper Hewett
New York
London
Maryland farmer discovers hired man ran big Philadelphia business
A Maryland farmer was not surprised to learn his hired man headed a large Philadelphia company. The piece notes that hired men often think they know how the world should function, leaving the farmer to joke about captains of industry or a quiet vacation.
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Maryland
Philadelphia
Acrobatic Congressman Survives Railroad Collision
A congressman performed a double back somersault over two seats during a railroad smash-up and escaped without serious injury. The feat mirrors the knack of many acrobats who adjust to abrupt shifts in congressional districts.
Farm boys' virtues drive success in business and life
Charles Dudley Warner urged birth in a small red farmhouse with a stone wall as ideal. The records show farmers' sons tend to succeed in business and professional life due to health vigor self-reliance ambition and work habits.
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Charles Dudley Warner
New York Post Office Issues 446000000 Money Orders
The New York post office issued money orders totaling 446 million last year. About three million went abroad, largely sent by immigrants to families. The piece notes that many small remittances illustrate broad prosperity, not just the few large fortunes.
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New York Post Office
Indianapolis News
Delicate seismographs register distant Ecuador quake
Reports from Havana and other distant points show seismographs recording a slight disturbance in Ecuador. The waves moved from southwest to northeast with the likely center beneath the Pacific near Central America. Similar reports arrived well before the quake’s precise location was known.
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Ecuador
Havana
Pacific
Central America
Dickens Dictionary Aimed at Modern Readers
A London publisher plans a Dickens dictionary to clarify his writings for the general public. The piece notes that earlier generations could read Dickens easily, and questions whether such a guide is needed so soon after the author’s death.
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London
English critic shames bone buttons on clothing
An English critic expresses shock at bone buttons on clothes and notes that this season many men are fortunate to have any buttons as wives are away. The remark reflects social humor about frugality and fashion in the period.
After Twelve Years.
Miss Hepsey, planning a Portland visit, confronts past love and memory as Hiram Stackpole waits with a long held question. Twelve years apart, a buried letter reemerges, reigniting old feelings at a social gathering and promising a new choice for Hepsey.
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Miss Hepsey
Celinda
Portland
Hepsey
Aunt Maguire
McGuire
Mme. Demorest
Hiram Stackpole
Deacon Nutting
Pooleville
Fred Tracy
Fred
Stackpole
Hepsibah Dillon
Miss Sepsey
Hiram
Mr. Stackpole
Lucy
Pealeville
Fred ‘Tracy
John
Parable He Liked An Ordination Tale From the Bystander
An old black man seeks ordination though he cannot read or write. When asked about the Bible his replies mix dialect and humor. He taxes the panel with a parable about the queen of Sheba and Jezebel, ending with the resurrection query, per the bystander.
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Darky
Nebber
Sheba
Jerusalem
Jezebel
New York Life President Outlines Administrative Plan
President Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Company outlines a four point plan to policyholders. He calls for strict economy widest publicity continuation as a world wide institution and securing new business under the law while protecting policy holder interests.
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Kingsley
New York Life Insurance Company
New York Life
Too Much Exposure At A Ball Cost Laundress A Cold
Eisie, a color laundress past youth with a bright smile and prominent tooth, missed a patron visit after attending a club ball during recent festivities. She explained her cold came from dressing in full evening attire and leaving off pieces, due to a gentleman paying attention to her.
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Eisie
Attorney pleas life at stake in cold storage case
An Oregon attorney appearing before the Oregon supreme court argued that the client's title to a cold storage plant bore great risk to nine human lives. The advocate claimed the client's life’s efforts were invested in the cold storage venture, describing it as his body and soul wrapped in the plant.
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Oregon
Oregon Supreme Court
Remember, brothers shouted the orator of the strenuous life
A vivid exchange unfolds as an elderly man in the back rows retorts to the orator claiming no use for mollycoddles. He notes the absent Molly Coddle and chides the speaker for discussing her behind her back.
District Densely Populated Population Density Note
District of Columbia has the greatest population per square mile in the country with about 3,839 persons per square mile. Alaska is sparsely populated with roughly one person per ten square miles. Rhode Island ranks second with about 407 persons per square mile.
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District of Columbia
Alaska
Rhode Island
Washington
Postum touted as cure for coffee related illness
An informal testimonial extols Postum Food Coffee as a remedy for headaches nervousness biliousness and stomach and nervous troubles formerly caused by coffee The narrator cites personal relief and claims neighbors were cured by switching to Postum Also mentions a booklet titled The Road to Wellville and a slogan Theres a Reason where to look for it.
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Wellvile
America
Felix Oswald
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Iowa News Sketches From Across The State
A compilation of short items reports Carl Range's suicide near an Iowa City farm, a Mason City housebreaker captured with a horse and buggy, Shelby business leaders planning a street fair, and Rolfe hosting homecoming events. Other notes cover post office land payments, a Marshalltown carpenter injured, Blaney interred in Ames, a Welton drowning, Filipino students sailing home, a mutilated remains discovery near Pomeroy, and faculty retirements at Cedar Rapids. Also mentions a bankruptcy petition in Logan, a Webster City case arrest in Bakersfield, weather and crop bulletin for late July 1907, and a Montezuma burn injury.
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Carl Range
Iowa City
Mason City
Shelby
Rolfe
Treasury Department
United States District Attorney of
Iowa
H. H. Gate
Nick Jorgenson
Marshalltown
Galena
Benjamin J. Blaney
Ames
Marshall Lodge
A. F
A. M
Riverside
Winterset
Edward Brown
Mr. Brown
Pueblo
Col
Henry Shumaker
John Shumaker
Wapsipinicon
Welton
State University
San Francisco
Messrs
San Jose
Rico
Alcazar
Hernando
T Illinois Central
Pomeroy
Fonda
Carl P. Sage
Rusk
Sion
Cedar Rapids
F. C. Hastman
Bakersfield
Cal
Webster City
North Central
Doan’s Kidney Pills Are Wonderful Says Mrs Moore
Water Ville Missouri restaurateur Mrs S A Moore reports kidney trouble for a year and a half with back and head pain dizziness and fatigue. A few doses of Doan’s Kidney Pills brought relief and she was cured with continued use. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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S.A. Moore
The Sad Sea Man’s Wry Maritime Mourning
A pale man in a large bathing suit stands knee deep in the sea and sighs that the sea is the grave of his first wife. He explains he remarried, but his second wife won’t go near the water, provoking amused reactions from onlookers.
Water Sighed Mured Weg And His Second Wife
Water sighed as a fragment reads Weg and his second wife in a terse line, with unreadable surrounding text suggesting a clipped wartime or domestic scene. The snippet hints at a conversation or estrangement but offers no clear event or outcome to confirm.
Starch choice promises better ironing results at home
The notice urges Defiance Starch for laundry use, claiming it provides greater strength and allows thinner application. It argues other starches require heavy coverage that harms fabric appearance and wear.
Long Times to Sweep at St Pauls Cathedral
A London paper recalls two country girls touring St Pauls Cathedral. One gazes awestruck beneath the dome, then breaks the mood with a practical quip about how long it would take to sweep the vast church. The lighthearted anecdote contrasts reverence with humor.
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London
St. Paul's Cathedral
The Advantage of Reading
A weary hobo asks for shelter at a farmhouse. The farmer, kind, cites a magazine claim that sleeping outdoors benefits the delicate, nervous, and irritable, promising the use of his potato patch and sky. The tale frames warmth and generosity against harsh hardship.
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Arnold Daly
Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Noah Webster
Heaven
Alcyone
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Mhepsey
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Montezuma
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